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This is not new news. People have been complaining of bad battery life well before Consumer Reports: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/.... The bottom line is it shouldn't have such drastically different test results with the same repeated tests. Whether it's the batteriesSafari or otherwise, it should be at least consistant. http://www.macrumors.com/2016/...

Just look at the amazing Christmas gifts that Apple gave them:
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/...

How dare they complain about not being able to take a break or getting their pay on time? They obviously work for a company that has deep respect for them. /s

Fire Tim Cook.

While the price of the adapters is high, your assumption that adapters is made of 75 cents worth of parts is laughable. There's a great deal of engineering that goes into a genuine Apple charger. The board alone costs more than 75c to manufacture.

iPhone 7 & Air Pods (ie W1 chip) already support BT5 (in hardware anyway).
Today they just ratified the standard and set it in stone (which allows the hardware to get a software update on todays spec).
Perhaps this is why the Air Pods were delayed until now.

Apple can't even make computers that work anymore.

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/...
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/...
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/...

Apple can't even make computers that work anymore.

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/...
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/...
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/...

Apple can't even make computers that work anymore.

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/...
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/...
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/...

That will never happen. :-(((

Sadly Apple no longer gives a fuck about us professionals -- you know, people who use their computers day in, day out, for creating content. They would rather everyone use iPads for consuming content.

Why?

Before Jobs passed away Tim Cook was responsible for getting Apple's supply chain down from months to days. Apple doesn't want to be holding onto millions of dollars of inventory just sitting there taking up space. This means they remove options and "dumb down" the machines so there is only 1 (or very few) parts. Tim Cook has continued this obsession that it actually has become counter-productive. You can't upgrade a MBP to more then 16 GB of RAM because the RAM is soldered onto the motherboard? WTF.

Apple also has a hard-on for wireless. My current MBP (Mid 2014) has a whopping 7 ports (2x USB, 2x Thunderbolt, 3.5 digital+analog audio, 1x HDMI, SDXC card) and I LOVE it because I use all of them. Apple TV gen 4 removed the audio port because they want everyone to use WiFi streaming. It doesn't take courage to remove an audio jack on the iPhone, they are a bunch of cowards. Gee, oh look, 2 out of 3 "solutions" are wireless.

It is a far cry from the days of Jobs when he actually cared about building not only a cosmetic computer and a functional one.

i.e. When is the Mac Pro going to updated?? It has been over 1075 days!

The only thing Apple cares about these days is making money whilst they whore our their brand. Apple would rather sell over-priced "Beats" garbage headphones to ignorant customers rather then make quality products for the power user. Those days are LONG dead.

It is hard to argue against "Oooh, Shiny!" when all they care about is profits.

Apple is Dead.
Long Live Apple.

I've never bought a computer that I didn't upgrade.

I don't doubt that there are lots of people like you that really do want to upgrade their laptop. Unfortunately for people like you, there aren't a lot of you out there, and the market is probably going to shift toward non-upgradable laptops. Already the new macbook has outsold all competitors

And if providing upgradable laptops provides no real competitive advantage while also being a disadvantage - people like you can buy a small laptop now and upgrade it later when components are cheaper... so the manufacturer makes less money from the sale - upgradable laptops will become less and less common.

I have the same issue. Even though I have been very happy with the Apple enviroment of OS X and their hardware. They are moving further and further away from something I want to spend my money on. Their recent MacBook Pro "upgrade" have made them useless for me and all too expensive.

My late 2013 iMac still packs a punch with the Intel I7. I can have FCPX pro rendering in the background while websurfing and other stuff still runs smooth. It feels like a workstation, it has a cmd line I can use. it used to have a proper disk utility program etc etc.

Of course that is because I am running external RAIDs on the USB3 ports for the rendering, etc. I need to accessorize a MacBook Pro with numerous dongles, and after a while, external storage because I cannot upgrade it. So it is becoming useless too fast and too expensive for my wallet. Like I switched from Windows in 2007 to OS X, I might need to do the reverse when the next upgrade comes around and see if I work with Windows again.

It is really sad how they have dumbed every thing down.

Here's how to have the functionality of the old Disk Utility back.

I think you will find that the CPU in the new MacBook Pro will be significantly faster than the one in your 2013 model.

And if you are a MacBook Pro user, you already use a "Dongle" (Adapter!) to drive an external display (you don't seriously edit video in FCP on the built-in display); so what's your problem?

And you already use an external RAID to do your FCP Rendering; so what's your objection there? Either get a $2 USB-C to USB-A adapter on Amazon for your external RAID, or get a USB-C RAID and enjoy at least twice the b/w of USB 3.0, or get a TB 3 RAID and have it be almost as fast at transferring data as Internal Storage!

The only way to get Apple to listen, is to vote with your dollars.

Looks like people have, and they're happy!

I would have thought the best tech company in the world (tm) would have no problem copying the many successful designs already on the market.

Other reporting on the news did a better job of providing some insight into why copying may not be possible and why yields may be a problem. Namely, the rumor mill has been indicating since at least January that Apple was going to try to be the first company to bring extended range wireless charging to market (i.e. just need to have the phone within a few feet of a transmitter, rather than in physical contact with a pad).

We've known that they've been working on it for years, so it's just been a question of when, not if. Even before the iPhone 7 was launched the rumors were already pointing towards a 2017 debut for the tech. With the pace of patent filings picking up recently and Apple buying out a number of startups doing work in the field, it seems that the rumors of the 2017 debut may bear out.

Exactly. Keep in mind that these are the same Australian banks who recently asked to collude with one another in their negotiations with Apple over Apple Pay. They wanted a bigger cut and asked for permission to engage in otherwise illegal tactics in order to get it.

Thankfully, they were denied that permission by regulators last month, so it's unsurprising that in the weeks immediately following the government's refusal to let them collude we'd see them grasping at straws. Sure enough, here we are a few weeks later and we suddenly see some "news" from those exact same banks that tries to frame Apple in a bad light. Strange how that works.

It's almost as if somebody is trying to improve their standing at the negotiating table by smearing the company on the other side...

Exactly. Keep in mind that these are the same Australian banks who recently asked to collude with one another in their negotiations with Apple over Apple Pay. They wanted a bigger cut and asked for permission to engage in otherwise illegal tactics in order to get it.

Thankfully, they were denied that permission by regulators last month, so it's unsurprising that in the weeks immediately following the government's refusal to let them collude we'd see them grasping at straws. Sure enough, here we are a few weeks later and we suddenly see some "news" from those exact same banks that tries to frame Apple in a bad light. Strange how that works.

It's almost as if somebody is trying to improve their standing at the negotiating table by smearing the company on the other side...

As far as I can tell it's off by default.

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/...

Don't worry, Apple's arrogance is large... but finite.

Yeah, only the (1,1) and (2,1) Pros had the 32-bit EFI, the (3,1) was the first to have 64-bit EFI. People on the (1,1) and (2,1) Pros had to use a modified boot.efi to fool the the OS into booting the 64-bit kernel if they wanted to run El Capitan (unsupported).

You are incorrect. -PCP

The issue is already fixed.

The MCX, which has Walmart and CVS in their membership, wanted to push their anti-consumer CurrentC app so they could avoid credit card charges.

CVS even had a working mobile wallet payment system working with Android, but disabled it when Apple Pay was launched.

When the world's largest retailer doesn't want to support something, it gets hard to adopt it.

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/...

> Schiller says that AirPod users can expect five hours of playtime http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Oh Schiller you stupid dumb fuck. I hope your greed backfires and this kills the iPhone and your name and resignation letter are forever attached to this debacle.

> Android remained the world's most widely used smartphone operating system with 80.7 percent market share, while iOS recorded 17.7 percent market share. http://www.macrumors.com/2016/...

Do you really think $159 earbuds are going to lift your market share? Yeah Hipsters are stupid but they are not that stupid.

They have even dealt with BGA issues in the past. The video issue in their laptops was caused by the BGA used and the thermal stressing of the connection between heating and cooling from usage.

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/...

You would think they would have learned of the in-advisability in using BGA in a device that has thermal cycling from this misstep.

Nice. I'm apparently stuck with Yosemite forever, unless someone can find a way to get Final Cut Pro (5.1 - bundled with Final Cut Studio) working well on El Capitan. It's bad enough that the installer was a PPC app that won't run on Yosemite because of no Rosetta - while the program itself is a universal app. I had to migrate that whole installation from a Time Machine backup.

My build is at least 3 years old, with Ivy Bridge. I've had a rock solid computer, except my SSD. I think I have a faulty SATA cable, because the drive will disappear with no warning once every few months. Hey, just like a real Mac!

Someday I'll just have to get with the program and move to FCP X. What I really want is Final Cut Studio 3, but that costs more than FCP X now on eBay. There's a program that can convert FCP 7 projects to X, but mine are all still technically FCP 5.

Things have gotten so bad, that MacRumors' Buying Guide, which is considered to be an "online institution" among Apple nerds, has flagged all of Apple laptops as "Don't Buy"

Well, except for the MacBook, which it lists as "BUY NOW". But don't get confused by the facts manishs.

Good thing they've been keeping the Mac line competitive... Oops

Ha ha, no. Apple and Intel are tight, and Apples tend to get the best, latest intel chips that will fit within the (ever thinner) machine they're building. Easy to look up.

The problem with Apples they aren't very upgradeable. You're often stuck with what you get, and maxing it out at purchase time tends to cost a lot more than equivalent upgrades on the street... assuming those upgrades would fit, which they probably won't.

You buy a Mac because it has a warranty, will be sold in its same configuration for at least a year so getting support is easy, and will be repairable for as many as 5 years or more (my 2010 Macbook Pro just got cut off the list this year). Most other consumer electronics have the lifespan of a fruitfly. That Sony Vaio isn't a 2011 model, it's a VWETB236623626-ASD23423 that had a two-week production run and was replaced months before Sony cleared out a thousand of them for sale at Best Buy. Your Apple will be current for at least a year... but a year in, it'll still be sold with the same, now aging, CPU. Trade-off. That's why you check the Buyer's Guide at MacRumors.com before you buy.

But it's FUD that they're putting 2-year old crap in new models. Except, maybe, when you consider the GPU. It will be recent hardware, but it's mid-range performance compared to the best of what's out there. Because top-of-the-line desktop GPU's like the GTX Titan doesn't fit an iMac, and sure as shit not in a laptop or a Mini. Apple doesn't build an affordable desktop, and even if a funny-looking Mac Pro is on your radar, Apple does a frustratingly bad job of updating it as newer, faster chips come out.

So, there you have it. For most of what people buy Macs for, this isn't a problem. But nobody thinks of a Mac as a gaming rig. A recent Mac will play, Steam runs on it, but if you're serious about gaming you're serious enough to build a PC rig.

Seems more likely to be a fad, especially when things like this happen. How many people are going to get mugged trying to catch 'em all?

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/...

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/...

Personally, the iPhone 6 doesn't appear to look anything like the 100c, except perhaps the ring around the back camera.

Do you have more current data? Other current articles are just for the current time, don't show the data history but do confirm that iOS is losing market share. Macrumors confirms the numbers as well. So - where's data that says otherwise?

As far as not showing what's claimed, do a fit to the data presented. You'll find that iOS is on a slow downward slope, and Android is on an upward slope. That's what the data says. Absent any counter data presented...

What car is that? What year?

2007 Rav4.

I'd complain to Apple about that, something is wrong with your phone.

It is not just me. The original poster there says that it is fixed in 9.3; I avoided 9.3 and 9.3.1 like the plague because of some other issues with those releases. Now that 9.3.2 is out, I finally had time to do a backup last night so that I could update. Here's hoping that the dead A2DP issue really is fixed. I never want to get that ear-splitting beep again. :-)

So switch to lightning cabled headphones

So I can pay an Apple Tax on my headphones. No thanks.

Once you go Mac, you'll never want to go back. Really?

When you see how bad the pricing and hardware the mac pro is you will go back.

http://forums.macrumors.com/th...

Wow, funny, I didn't have to look far to even expose what you said as incorrect:

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

-Comes from the official app store
-Does not require a jailbroken phone
-Enterprise certificates are not security, it only costs $299 to get one, or just steal one to abuse

Another
http://www.macrumors.com/2015/...

-came in through the official app store
-phished user credentials
-doesn't require jailbroken phones
-used the developer's own cert, so no cert required

http://researchcenter.paloalto...

Another

Now, show me examples of Android malware available on the official app store, that doesn't require developer mode being enabled (like jailbreaking for android, but built in), and isn't a parental control app (which I would exclude as well...we aren't talking about apps designed to be used by the user this way).

And this explains Apple declining more than PCs how?

Apple has not updated most of their laptop or desktop systems for more than a year. They were waiting for Skylake. They just updated the base Macbook in April, but too late for 1st Quarter sales. The others will likely be announced at WWDC in June. Expect a BIG jump in sales. My wife and daughter both plan to buy new MacBook Pros as soon as they are available. Source: MacRumors Buyer's Guide.

According to MacRumors (and presumably, Apple) and this image: http://cdn.macrumors.com/artic...

Mac Net Sales apparently accounts for just 9 PERCENT of Apple's revenues.

In other words, its Apple's second largest source of revenue, alone bigger than Oracle.

TBH, both the Nexus S and the Nexus 4 were supported for less than just the production run of any iPhone since at least the iPhone 3G, much less it's total support period. Perhaps there's a reason 75% of teens next phone will be an iPhone? But it is not just teens. The common complaint there is Android and its support model, or lack thereof.

Whoops, wrong link: http://buyersguide.macrumors.c...

Yes, you very definitely should wait if you possibly can:
http://www.macrumors.com/round...

Semi related: how do you make a clickable link?

Like in HTML: <a href="http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac">MacRumors</a>
Which gives:
MacRumors
I don't know if there's a list of "allowed HTML tags and entities" anywhere anymore. BTW, I used <quote> for quoting you.

So...about a year-and-a-half, then.

Nope, sorry.

The iPhone 5C was released in September, 2013.

The iPhone SE (which is the closest thing to an heir-apparent to the 5C, and is also the most-recent model) was shipped in the U.S. and several other countries starting on March 31, 2016.

By my estimation, that is around 2 1/2 years. And in that time, there has been the 5s, the 6 and the 6s in between the 5C and the SE. So that actually sounds like FOUR revisions, not even counting concurrent variants, like the 6 plus and the 6s plus.

The Mac Pro is now ridiculously stale. ("Days since last release: 833")

Apple has been letting all of their computer products go stale (they're almost all red and 'Don't Buy' on the buyer's guide http://buyersguide.macrumors.c...). I've been waiting for a substantial macbook pro or even air upgrade for awhile now and even at the March announcements when I hoped for Skylake CPU upgrade announcements...nothing.

Apple used to be beholden to the refresh cycle of PowerPC, which was mostly controlled by IBM/Motorolla. Now it's beholden to Intel--and Intel has had general process and release delays over the last little while.

Apple's iOS-based stuff can be refreshed more frequently (annually?) because it controls the entire stack, including the silicon. While Apple controls most of the stack with Macs, certain things (notable CPUs) are not with-in their purview.

The Mac Pro is now ridiculously stale. ("Days since last release: 833")

Apple has been letting all of their computer products go stale (they're almost all red and 'Don't Buy' on the buyer's guide http://buyersguide.macrumors.c...). I've been waiting for a substantial macbook pro or even air upgrade for awhile now and even at the March announcements when I hoped for Skylake CPU upgrade announcements...nothing.

Apple used to be beholden to the refresh cycle of PowerPC, which was mostly controlled by IBM/Motorolla. Now it's beholden to Intel--and Intel has had general process and release delays over the last little while.

Apple's iOS-based stuff can be refreshed more frequently (annually?) because it controls the entire stack, including the silicon. While Apple controls most of the stack with Macs, certain things (notable CPUs) are not with-in their purview.

The Mac Pro is now ridiculously stale. ("Days since last release: 833")

Apple has been letting all of their computer products go stale (they're almost all red and 'Don't Buy' on the buyer's guide http://buyersguide.macrumors.c...). I've been waiting for a substantial macbook pro or even air upgrade for awhile now and even at the March announcements when I hoped for Skylake CPU upgrade announcements...nothing.

It seems to me that Apple's priorities are phones and tablets and that anything that isn't a phone or a tablet just doesn't have their focus at the moment. Maybe because we can get by on the very stale but still very usable hardware that we bought years ago without actually NEEDING a hardware refresh, or maybe phones and tablets just generate relatively more profit for them. I don't know.

The Mac Pro is now ridiculously stale. ("Days since last release: 833")

Apple has been letting all of their computer products go stale (they're almost all red and 'Don't Buy' on the buyer's guide http://buyersguide.macrumors.c...). I've been waiting for a substantial macbook pro or even air upgrade for awhile now and even at the March announcements when I hoped for Skylake CPU upgrade announcements...nothing.

It seems to me that Apple's priorities are phones and tablets and that anything that isn't a phone or a tablet just doesn't have their focus at the moment. Maybe because we can get by on the very stale but still very usable hardware that we bought years ago without actually NEEDING a hardware refresh, or maybe phones and tablets just generate relatively more profit for them. I don't know.

The Mac Pro is now ridiculously stale. ("Days since last release: 833")

I've read articles speculating that Apple might be re-designing the Mac Pro again as many of its intended users are disappointed that it has no internal expansion at all. So Apple could be sitting on a design refresh, waiting for these new chips.

I even read speculation that Apple would cancel the Mac Pro product line, but IMHO that is very unlikely. Apple sells a lot more notebooks than Mac Pros, but I just can't see Apple walking away from a very high-margin product.

So now that there are refreshed Xeons, maybe we will see a refreshed Mac Pro.

P.S. I was surprised that Apple didn't release a standard enclosure for lots of hard drives or whatever. You should have your Mac Pro and then one box with one cord, rather than a half-dozen boxes and a half-dozen cords. But I guess Apple left that for third parties such as Sonnet. I watched the video for that Sonnet product I linked... it said that Sonnet followed Apple's guidelines for how to best mount a Mac Pro. Therefore, Apple has guidelines for third party vendors for Mac Pro mounting products.

Even so, it's amazing how complicated the Sonnet enclosure has to be to solve the problem. Thunderbolt connectors can pop out, so they invented a retaining device that uses a bolt to keep the plug in. You need to run multiple Thunderbolt cables inside the box. And they said they were not able to offer a passthrough for Thunderbolt because Thunderbolt won't work with one (they didn't elaborate, something about needing active circuits on both ends of the connection, but I don't know why that rules out a passthrough).

And oh boy is that an expensive way to go: buy an expensive Mac Pro, then spend another $1500 on the enclosure.

What about the bug that crashes apps when you tap on a hyperlink?

Article states "Hardly an aberration, iPad sales have been dropping for well over two years at this point." No, not "Well over" two years. Just "two years". Maybe two and a quarter years, but that's not what comes to mind (and probably intentionally so) when you hear "well over two years".

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/...

Apple may surprise us with new MacBooks

That, or they may continue to make good money with 3 year old CPUs.

Except for the iMac, virtually the entire Mac lineup gets the advice: "don't buy" because they're all based on Intel's previous gen chips (Haswell). Skylake is nowhere in sight currently: http://buyersguide.macrumors.c... Now I have to admit, the MacBook Pro series only uses Intel's high-end integrated GPU, so they've actually been waiting on Intel the whole time. But still.

Now the ransomware's certificate is revoked, I guess there is no hope to pay the crooks and recover the data?

Macrumors reports there was a three-day delay before the lockout would take effect. So most people haven't been caught by it yet.

Most ot the rhetoric from Tim Cook is pure bullshit in this case. He tries to expand the request to all iPhones in order to create a wave of sympathy and pose as a champion of privacy while in reality he doesn't give a shit, unless this can be a sales point. Pure marketing here.

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