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Apple News From WWDC and iPhone 5 Rumors

Posted by samzenpus on from the latest-and-greatest dept.

First time accepted submitter zer0point writes "Apple has just announced the next-generation Macbook Pro with a retina display. Starting today you can also order a MacBook Pro upgraded with Ivy Bridge CPUs, and Nvidia graphics. Mountain Lion got some various updates, and as expected iOS 6 was announced. In rumor news, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo wrote in a note to investors, 'Based on the release schedule for iOS 6 GM, there is a very good chance iPhone 5 will start shipping also in early September.'"

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  1. So what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yawn,

  2. Can we say vendor lock-in? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "By not purchasing standard parts, we can create a product that's more elegant and more efficient."

    So, the SSDs in these things are a proprietary Apple part? I fail to see how that is more 'elegant' and 'efficient'. Breeding your own standard is not elegant, when there are already products on the market that comply with standards that do the same job. And it is hardly efficient to create a whole production line for components when there are off-the-shelf options available.

    No. This this a blatant attempt to move to the iPhone/iPad/iPod model where users buy a fixed storage capacity device (that can never be upgraded), and customers have to pay exorbitant sums for small bumps in storage capacity (that and push users to buying Thunderbolt drives).

    About the only thing this is elegant and efficient about this is increasing the profitability for Apple.