It's amazing, the huge variety of smartphones Samsung sells under the Galaxy brand. You can get $30 tracphone Samsung Galaxys (if you're foolish enough to) in a Walgreens.
Windows 98 was pushing towards 'USB everything' at about the same time as Apple. There wasn't just a total dump of the old, like when Apple dumped every third-party ADB peripheral overnight with ideological glee. My current PC with an MSI gaming motherboard that I built this spring still has PS/2 connectors. They still work with Windows 10. Oh the Horror!!!
I want to charge it with my USB C charger. The same one I use with my Asus tablet and my Nintendo Switch. Also the same power input the new Macbooks use.
I have the Windows 98 install set on floppy diskettes. When I bought Windows 98, it was on an installer CD but in the book that came with it there was a coupon to order an installer set of 3-1/2" diskettes. It was only $10 so I said what the heck ond ordered it. It's about 60 diskettes. And Microsoft Fulfillment screwed up and sent two sets. When I bought Windows NT 3.51 the only version they had in the store was the diskette installer, and I was able to order the CD installer for about $10.
People who have never installed an OS (Slackware is another OS often distributed this way back in the day) or a game from a whole ton of diskettes has not experienced the whole PC thing. I once had a Windows 95 disk set with a defective disk 17. You don't find such a defect until you are 17 disk changes into the (now aborted) install.
I remember when city busses were more of a mystery. Yes, there were central locations downtown where you could look at a map that showed the whole bus network, but you were seldom at such a spot. Bus schedules were small paper foldouts with a street diagram of the busses route, at certain points indicating where another bus route crossed them. Knowing what bus to take (the 6a, the 6c, or maybe the 6e) which all had slightly (or greatlt) different starting and terminal points was a challenge.
The printed bus schedules were often uncommon. They only put so many of them out in the little racks at the bus shelters and often there were none. Obtaining a printed schedule for a route you didn't know opened new opportunities for travel in the city.
Yep. Screwed that one up. I remember the 'cool' chicks in the clubs wearing their Walkmans. With 'I Will Follow' by U2 playing on the PA between band sets, before any of us knew who U2 were. The 1980 club scene in Minneapolis.
I'm waiting for some Industrial band to come out with a song called 'Inside the Secure Enclave.'
Of course, it's undoubtedly an Apple trademark and they will be sued until the band members have all become dishwashers at second-rate 'family' Italian restaurants.
I don't think I ever saw a 3.5mm phono jacket in the 1960s that was three-conductor stereo.
The 6 Transistor radio my grandpa listened to Twins games on while fishing out on the lake had a 3.5mm phono jack, but it was mono.
No, I think that 3.5mm stereo phone jacks were a 90's phenomenon. They came in with the Sony Walkman. I remember when they started selling headphones that didn't have the regular 1/4" stereo headphone jack, and bundled an adapter in the package 'for the rest of us.'
Apple is the first company to obsolete a newly released product (iPhone 8) in it's product announcement by simultaneously introducing it's successor (iPhone X).
That took courage!
That's innovation! No company has ever before been so daring!
So the iPhone 8 is now the mom-phone. The Apple gadget for people who want to buck the trends and be the new leading edge by not buying the leading edge. Very meta!
FaceID is a change because they couldn't figure out where to put a fingerprint scanner after removing the home button.
There were rumors of putting the fingerprint scanner on the back, and even 'prototypes' that emerged with a suspicious opening in the case back where a fingerprint scanner would go. But that's something some Android phones had already done, so it wouldn't be new and innovative, even if it's practical.
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We try to be inclusive here. Don't pick on the rubber fetishists. Your BOSS might turn out to be part of that community.
It's amazing, the huge variety of smartphones Samsung sells under the Galaxy brand. You can get $30 tracphone Samsung Galaxys (if you're foolish enough to) in a Walgreens.
Windows 98 was pushing towards 'USB everything' at about the same time as Apple. There wasn't just a total dump of the old, like when Apple dumped every third-party ADB peripheral overnight with ideological glee. My current PC with an MSI gaming motherboard that I built this spring still has PS/2 connectors. They still work with Windows 10. Oh the Horror!!!
Twenty-four pence is one shy of a quarter, which is a coin about the same size. But in the UK it's ok.
I want to charge it with my USB C charger. The same one I use with my Asus tablet and my Nintendo Switch. Also the same power input the new Macbooks use.
Only the truly hardcore Apple enthusiasts have chimed in, and in a subdued way.
Has there been a sea change? Have we moved on?
Only credibility with Anonymous Coward which really isn't worth much.
I have the Windows 98 install set on floppy diskettes. When I bought Windows 98, it was on an installer CD but in the book that came with it there was a coupon to order an installer set of 3-1/2" diskettes. It was only $10 so I said what the heck ond ordered it. It's about 60 diskettes. And Microsoft Fulfillment screwed up and sent two sets. When I bought Windows NT 3.51 the only version they had in the store was the diskette installer, and I was able to order the CD installer for about $10.
People who have never installed an OS (Slackware is another OS often distributed this way back in the day) or a game from a whole ton of diskettes has not experienced the whole PC thing. I once had a Windows 95 disk set with a defective disk 17. You don't find such a defect until you are 17 disk changes into the (now aborted) install.
I remember when city busses were more of a mystery. Yes, there were central locations downtown where you could look at a map that showed the whole bus network, but you were seldom at such a spot. Bus schedules were small paper foldouts with a street diagram of the busses route, at certain points indicating where another bus route crossed them. Knowing what bus to take (the 6a, the 6c, or maybe the 6e) which all had slightly (or greatlt) different starting and terminal points was a challenge.
The printed bus schedules were often uncommon. They only put so many of them out in the little racks at the bus shelters and often there were none. Obtaining a printed schedule for a route you didn't know opened new opportunities for travel in the city.
Yep. Screwed that one up. I remember the 'cool' chicks in the clubs wearing their Walkmans. With 'I Will Follow' by U2 playing on the PA between band sets, before any of us knew who U2 were. The 1980 club scene in Minneapolis.
I'm waiting for some Industrial band to come out with a song called 'Inside the Secure Enclave.'
Of course, it's undoubtedly an Apple trademark and they will be sued until the band members have all become dishwashers at second-rate 'family' Italian restaurants.
I don't think I ever saw a 3.5mm phono jacket in the 1960s that was three-conductor stereo.
The 6 Transistor radio my grandpa listened to Twins games on while fishing out on the lake had a 3.5mm phono jack, but it was mono.
No, I think that 3.5mm stereo phone jacks were a 90's phenomenon. They came in with the Sony Walkman. I remember when they started selling headphones that didn't have the regular 1/4" stereo headphone jack, and bundled an adapter in the package 'for the rest of us.'
The iPhone 9 will only be available for sale in the Apple Store on a designated cruise ship as it sails within the Bermuda Triangle.
It will be rare! Truly a classic!
There was no Windows 9 either. Apple "just did what Microsoft was doing."
In the world of 'fashion' the word "obsolete" means 'not the latest thing.'
The iPhone 8 became obsolete halfway through the presentation.
Apple is the first company to obsolete a newly released product (iPhone 8) in it's product announcement by simultaneously introducing it's successor (iPhone X).
That took courage!
That's innovation! No company has ever before been so daring!
It is MUCH worse than a password. A password your are constitutionally protected from having to divulge. Biometrics? Naw.
You have to accidentally look at the phone so it sees your eyes before all your savings can be siphoned out of your account.
"It was all covered in the Presentation."
I want a t-shirt that has that printed on it, now.
So the iPhone 8 is now the mom-phone. The Apple gadget for people who want to buck the trends and be the new leading edge by not buying the leading edge. Very meta!
Somebody who wants to cling to the home button for the maximum allowed time, since the 8 will be the last model with a home button.
We have plenty of time.
FaceID is a change because they couldn't figure out where to put a fingerprint scanner after removing the home button.
There were rumors of putting the fingerprint scanner on the back, and even 'prototypes' that emerged with a suspicious opening in the case back where a fingerprint scanner would go. But that's something some Android phones had already done, so it wouldn't be new and innovative, even if it's practical.
Go ahead and sit in that room with your eyes closed. We have plenty of time.
The Police don't have your unlock code. They simply aim it at your face.
But a phone that unlocks when it sees your face is one that the police can confiscate and unlock by simply aiming it at your face.
Why wouldn't you want that convenience?
Who in their right mind would now buy an iPhone 8 when it is obsoleted in the very same product announcement by the iPhone X?
Oh, I suppose people who can't afford an iPhone X will buy the iPhone 8, to show off with. Right? Right??