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Apple Still Trying to Keep Up With M2 MacBook Air Demand Almost a Month After Launch
In the United States, Apple lists the MacBook Air as shipping out in two to three weeks for the baseline model with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD storage. Other configurations with varying storage and memory options are listed as one to two weeks away.
The delay is timely as Apple is currently running a Back to School promotion for students preparing for classes this fall. The new MacBook Air may be an attractive purchase for students thanks to its lightweight and thin design and the battery life and performance enabled by the M2 chip.
Apple has been facing a constrained supply chain in recent months, but the situation does seem to be easing. Besides the long wait for the new MacBook Air, most other Macs in Apple’s lineup remain readily available for shipping with no weeks-long delay.
The highest-end Mac Studio and the 24-inch iMac with the M1 chip are the two exceptions. The Mac Studio is listed with shipping estimates well into at least one month, and customers looking for an iMac face a three to four week delay, according to Apple’s store at the time of writing.
In the third quarter of the year, Apple’s Mac business was severely constrained. The company’s CEO, Tim Cook, said that Mac supply was so low for the quarter that it was difficult to gauge actual demand for Apple’s latest computers. Here is what Tim said during the company’s last earnings call:
In terms of testing the demand, you can’t really test demand unless you have the supply. We were so far from that last quarter that we have an estimate of what we believe demand was, but it is an estimate. We recognize how the industry is doing, we think that we’ve got a great story with the Mac, getting M1 out and now M2 out, we have a very strong offering for the back to school season and we’ll see how we do this quarter. We’ll report back in October.
Mac revenue for Q3 of 2022 was down to $7.3B from $8.2B a year ago.
This article, “Apple Still Trying to Keep Up With M2 MacBook Air Demand Almost a Month After Launch” first appeared on MacRumors.com
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A fifth of US teens use YouTube ‘almost constantly,’ with TikTok not far behind
Pew Research has published a new report that examines social media usage trends among US teens. The organization found that a whopping 95 percent of them use YouTube, while 19 percent are on the platform “almost constantly.”
Perhaps unsurprisingly, two-thirds (67 percent) said they used TikTok, with 16 percent claiming they are on the app “almost constantly.” The third most-popular social media platform among teens is Instagram, per Pew, with 62 percent using it. A tenth say they use it almost all the time — despite the app occasionally telling them to take a break. A previous poll conducted in 2014-15 found that 52 percent were using Instagram (Pew didn’t ask about YouTube usage for that survey and TikTok didn’t exist at the time).
Snapchat also rose among teens, with 59 percent using it in 2022, compared with 41 percent in the previous poll. Facebook was the top social media app among teens seven years ago, with 71 percent of them using it, but that figure has dropped to 32 percent. Teen adoption of Twitter (down from 33 percent to 23 percent) and Tumblr (14 percent to five percent) has fallen over the same period too.
The 2014-15 poll didn’t ask about Twitch, WhatsApp or Reddit. These days, a fifth of teens use Twitch, 17 percent are on WhatsApp and 14 percent are accessing Reddit. For what it’s worth, the earlier poll suggested 33 percent of teens used Google+, while a quarter used Vine. This time around, Pew did not ask teens about their use of Discord or social gaming spaces such as Fortnite.
Pew surveyed 1,316 teens aged 13 to 17 (as well as one of their parents) in April and May. It found that boys were more likely to use YouTube, Twitch and Reddit and girls were more likely to say they access TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat. More Black and Hispanic teens said they used TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and WhatsApp than white teens.
Even though over half (54 percent) of teens said they’d find it hard to give up social media, 36 percent admitted they spent too much time on the platforms. Around 55 percent said their usage levels were “about right.” Meanwhile, 97 percent of teens now use the internet every day, with 46 percent saying they’re online almost all the time.
The poll found that 95 percent of teens have access to a smartphone (up from 73 percent in 2014-15), while 90 percent can access a desktop or laptop computer, up from 87 percent in the previous survey. Curiously, the percentage of teens who say they have access to a gaming console has fallen slightly, from 81 percent to 80 percent.
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