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A Brief History of Features Apple Has Killed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the or-you-might-be-a-fanboi dept.

Technologizer writes "Some folks are outraged over the lack of FireWire in the new MacBook released this week. But Apple wouldn't be Apple if it didn't move faster than any other computer company to kill technologies that may be past their prime. And history usually validates its decisions. We've posted a decade's worth of examples that prove the point."

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  1. Re:Not really by Sun.Jedi · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    There is always an alternative. This time, Apple is just asking you to give them 700$ more and buy MBP.

    Apple is NOT following M$'s screwup.

    M$ released Vista, which has no real advantages over XP... people figured this out rather quickly and don't buy it.

    Apple comes out with a new gizmo, and leverages their hardware propriety to get people to buy their wares.

    Smart. In a way.

  2. Can you SMELL the bullshit across the tubes yet? by Toll_Free · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Blah blah blah.

    Jesus, stop sucking Apple's dick long enough to stop writing dick articles.

    I don't think I've ever seen someone so enamored with a hardware vendor than this idiot.

    Apple didn't "phase out" the 8" floppy... It was on it's way out when Apple was STILL making them.

    Apple and the fireware debacle is (IMHO) nothing more than an attempt (and a DAMN good one at that) to get people to upgrade their laptops to the pro version. Pure and simple. Not everyone NEEDS firewire, so why implement it in a beginners, so to speak, computer. I have it on 3 desktops and a laptop. I've used it less than 20 times... Going back probably to 2003. Yeah, it's a real deal-breaker.

    The flip side, I use USB daily. So do most Apple users. Wait, what? Yeah, I tried pluggin my IPOD into the 1394 bus, but nothing worked right. Same with the IPhone.

    Apple is going to decide what is used and what isn't. Couldn't be that Apple was trying to fuck a consumer into a more expensive laptop, could it?

    This 'article' isn't anything more than attempted damage control by Apple FanBois, is it?

    Sheesh.

    --Toll_Free

  3. paranoia by reiisi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I strongly suspect that Jobs is acting on iNTEL orders to push the world to USB.

    iNTEL really, really, really, really wants your pipes. All of them.

    They want to get the toll and they want to be able to write the rules of the road.

    --
    Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens with fancy erasers; the 'net is just a fancy backyard fence.