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Apple To Unveil Light Peak, New MacBook Pros This Week?
An anonymous reader writes "Apple will reportedly soon make an announcement regarding a new high-speed connection technology. And as luck would have it, this comes hot on the heels of a report that Apple will release a slew of new MacBook Pros later this week. For some time now, reports have abounded detailing Apple and Intel's cooperation on a new transfer technology dubbed Light Peak capable of transferring data at 10GB/s both up and down. Could this find its way into Apple's new lineup of MacBook Pros as has been previously rumored?"
So Intel is delaying USB 3.0 support so that Apple fanbois can transfer Apple DRM media to their mobile devices faster? Does anyone else see this as part of a move to cut the PC out of the Apple device loop? That what it looks like to me...and good riddance. I'd rather have a fucking Zune.
Can somebody help me figure out what business Apple is even in anymore? It's like they're now half a console producer (think XBOX live for apps and media) and half a tech-hipster "me get shiny thing first" club with personal and professional computing peeking out of a smaller and smaller hole.
Case in point- I also know quite a few video editors loyal to Final Cut that are now looking to move to Adobe Premiere (because it costs a third to operate over FC at this point - this includes the video department company where I work).
That's another alienated group of classic Apple users who are moving away from the platform.
I don't know how many years on this Earth I got left. I'm going to get real weird with it. - Frank Reynolds
Bullshit from somebody who doesn't remember correctly.
The main push for USB adoption came with the release of Windows 98, released in May of 1998.
The iMac was released in August of 1998 and although it was one of the best selling Macs of all time, it is largely insignificant compared to the hundreds of millions of Windows machines sold at the same time.
That's not why they suck. They suck because they charge over $500 to wrap mid-level hardware in a shiny unique package. They suck because they try to stifle development efforts that are not theirs or that deliver a competing service to theirs. They suck because they are a marketing and design driven technology company and not a engineering driven technology company. The old adage "Form follows function" doesn't apply at Apple. It's "function follows form, marketing and authoritarian control" for them. Luckily, their customer is doesn't care he or she just wants a kick-ass shiny toy he can show off.