If only it were _possible_ to use a cheap and ergonomic cable that would let you plug two cables into a single lightning port. Oh woe is us that the laws of the universe have made such a port impossible!
But hark, what is that I hear?! it _isn't_ impossible? *REJOICING*
Ah, yes because having a cable with lightning on one end and USB(-C) on the other has so impacted Apple's bottom line that they haven't made a profit in years.
I carry around a cable with a Type 1 on one end and a triple Dock/Micro/Lightning connectors on the other that I got as a freebie years ago & that I've used to charge iPads, iPhones, Android tablets etc.. it's been suuuch a hardship, oh woe is me.
Apple land, Dell land, HP Land. Amazing how so many xxx lands there are now that use dongles without it being the insurmountable issue that some claimed would doom them to failure. It's almost if they were exaggerating.
Take another look at the macbook and Apple's history. If they think that its is superfluous they cut it. Floppys, serial ports, optical drives, etc. Sometimes they're ahead of the curve but every time time you look back 5 years after furor has died down the rest of the major part of the market has cut them too.
I use my rMBP to work with with multiple VMs to template deployment of hardware like F5s, Ironports, Fortinets, etc and appreciate having a high quality screen so that I can work in high resolution even away from my desk. If you think that retina screens are only useful as a "shiny tool for graphic design" for people who think that they need to be "cool" you're missing something important.
Leaks of what was claimed to be the next rMBP chassis have 4 USB-C ports and no magsafe or other ports. I think the Macbook style keyboard will be a bigger adjustment than the loss of audio, magsafe & SD slots but my son in college is more than happy with his sole USB-C...
People who really care about audio quality were already using external DACs & Apple doesn't make any so it's not as if their use is an attempt at padding their bottom line as some are claiming. If you're using a rMBP you're already using a dongle for Ethernet and external DACs plug into USB ports.
If people really cared, there would be more HCP+A2DP devices. Maybe Apple pushing the market will generalize them. If it doesn't happen we'll know if more people than a voluble fringe really care or not.
But plugging in your existing headphones to a USB-C adapter that apple will probably deliver to ease the transition or one of the many Docks that will surely be developed will be too painful to consider? Ohhkay.
Ah yes, analog technology that's the future. in the years to come everyone will abandon digital and move to analog because an anonymous coward on/. says so.
Funny how many Macs one sees when spending time at Cisco headquarters in Paris. Whether it's locals or people brought in from the USA to present new tech the majority use rMBPs, those that don't use Dells/HP's that use dongles too without it being an issue.
True audiophiles were already using external DACs anyway like my professional musician friend friend who uses them to hookup sound systems instead of using the noisy DACs included in PCs/Macs.
The/. old article I think the the gpp is referring to wasn't using neural networks to match a small dataset of blurred pictures as in this example but that the "spiral" Photoshop filter (take a circle, rotate the outmost pixels X degrees, move 1 pixel inward, repeat) that was used to hide the faces of adults pedophiles in pictures seized in a number of raids is mostly reversible. I suppose you could use a program to do so but back then it was just people applying a reverse spiral tool in Photoshop.
Because Obama doing so now would hand the election over to Trump? Doing so after the elections are held might die down enough to not make it matter in 4 years but now? No, please no...
Oh look! An AC thinks that his opinion matters! Thanks for the Lol to start my day. Try rereading what I wrote, my opinion doesn't matter much but 7th most popular linux ain't much either given how concentrated Linux usage is on the first 5.
Except that they are selectively applying their reinterpretation of what is/isn't legal or they would have chosen a target like Total who has sales that dwarfed Apple's yet payed zero french corporate taxes.
OK then, How come Total which had sales that awarded Apple's can get away with paying no corporate taxes in France and NOT be concerned with these ex-post-facto reinterpretations? It's not "he's doing it so I should be able to do it too", it's "why are you selectively interpreting the law and what basis do you have for condemning me and giving him a free pass?"
Interesting that Total, France's biggest petrochemical company payed no corporate taxes in France even though they have sales that dwarf those of Apple. http://www.lefigaro.fr/conjonc...
Will Total be called to pay billions in back taxes and France put to task for illegally aiding them? Ah no, Total is French. There will be an under the table arrangement that will quietly absolve everyone involved of guilt. Please return to your Apple bashing...
Never heard of them and while that doesn't mean much, unless their work gets picked up by other distribs or ends up becoming a major disturb by itself, they don't matter.
The second cousin of the neighbour down the road of my third cousin (on my mothers side) bought crappy android phones for their dogs. It didn't end well even though they setup bank accounts for the puppies so the they could play angry birds because the crappy DACs in the phones were incapable of rendering the dog whistle frequencies the dogs had been trained with.
What does all that have to do with the removal of the jack not being the enormous issue some are trying to make of it? Nothing actually but I thought you deserved an off topic nonsensical reply to your off topic nonsensical fairy tale. If you want a crappy sub $50 phone go buy one, nobody is holding a gun to your head forcing you to buy an iphone7.
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If only it were _possible_ to use a cheap and ergonomic cable that would let you plug two cables into a single lightning port. Oh woe is us that the laws of the universe have made such a port impossible!
But hark, what is that I hear?! it _isn't_ impossible? *REJOICING*
Ah, yes because having a cable with lightning on one end and USB(-C) on the other has so impacted Apple's bottom line that they haven't made a profit in years.
I carry around a cable with a Type 1 on one end and a triple Dock/Micro/Lightning connectors on the other that I got as a freebie years ago & that I've used to charge iPads, iPhones, Android tablets etc.. it's been suuuch a hardship, oh woe is me.
Apple land, Dell land, HP Land. Amazing how so many xxx lands there are now that use dongles without it being the insurmountable issue that some claimed would doom them to failure. It's almost if they were exaggerating.
Take another look at the macbook and Apple's history. If they think that its is superfluous they cut it. Floppys, serial ports, optical drives, etc. Sometimes they're ahead of the curve but every time time you look back 5 years after furor has died down the rest of the major part of the market has cut them too.
or deliver a cheap adapter like they do with the iPhone 7...
No physical keyboard!
Doesn't play flash!
Doesn't even connect to 3G networks!
Apple's new iPhone is simply the beginning of the end for a once innovative...
Your rant brings back such fond memories of similar predictions that failed soooo harrrrdddd...
Apple no longer sells DRM'ed music so what is this analog hole you claim Apple is trying to plug by removing the jack?
I use my rMBP to work with with multiple VMs to template deployment of hardware like F5s, Ironports, Fortinets, etc and appreciate having a high quality screen so that I can work in high resolution even away from my desk. If you think that retina screens are only useful as a "shiny tool for graphic design" for people who think that they need to be "cool" you're missing something important.
That or you're only pretending to own a MBP.
Leaks of what was claimed to be the next rMBP chassis have 4 USB-C ports and no magsafe or other ports. I think the Macbook style keyboard will be a bigger adjustment than the loss of audio, magsafe & SD slots but my son in college is more than happy with his sole USB-C...
People who really care about audio quality were already using external DACs & Apple doesn't make any so it's not as if their use is an attempt at padding their bottom line as some are claiming. If you're using a rMBP you're already using a dongle for Ethernet and external DACs plug into USB ports.
If people really cared, there would be more HCP+A2DP devices. Maybe Apple pushing the market will generalize them. If it doesn't happen we'll know if more people than a voluble fringe really care or not.
But plugging in your existing headphones to a USB-C adapter that apple will probably deliver to ease the transition or one of the many Docks that will surely be developed will be too painful to consider? Ohhkay.
The what?
Take a look at iPod sales over the past few years. They're history in a few years anyway.
Ah yes, analog technology that's the future. in the years to come everyone will abandon digital and move to analog because an anonymous coward on /. says so.
Funny how many Macs one sees when spending time at Cisco headquarters in Paris. Whether it's locals or people brought in from the USA to present new tech the majority use rMBPs, those that don't use Dells/HP's that use dongles too without it being an issue.
True audiophiles were already using external DACs anyway like my professional musician friend friend who uses them to hookup sound systems instead of using the noisy DACs included in PCs/Macs.
The /. old article I think the the gpp is referring to wasn't using neural networks to match a small dataset of blurred pictures as in this example but that the "spiral" Photoshop filter (take a circle, rotate the outmost pixels X degrees, move 1 pixel inward, repeat) that was used to hide the faces of adults pedophiles in pictures seized in a number of raids is mostly reversible. I suppose you could use a program to do so but back then it was just people applying a reverse spiral tool in Photoshop.
So why shouldn't he be pardoned for that?
Because Obama doing so now would hand the election over to Trump? Doing so after the elections are held might die down enough to not make it matter in 4 years but now? No, please no...
The question then becomes why didn't poor white families suffer the same consequences and splinter the way black families have?
Oh look! An AC thinks that his opinion matters! Thanks for the Lol to start my day. Try rereading what I wrote, my opinion doesn't matter much but 7th most popular linux ain't much either given how concentrated Linux usage is on the first 5.
Except that they are selectively applying their reinterpretation of what is/isn't legal or they would have chosen a target like Total who has sales that dwarfed Apple's yet payed zero french corporate taxes.
OK then, How come Total which had sales that awarded Apple's can get away with paying no corporate taxes in France and NOT be concerned with these ex-post-facto reinterpretations? It's not "he's doing it so I should be able to do it too", it's "why are you selectively interpreting the law and what basis do you have for condemning me and giving him a free pass?"
Interesting that Total, France's biggest petrochemical company payed no corporate taxes in France even though they have sales that dwarf those of Apple.
http://www.lefigaro.fr/conjonc...
Will Total be called to pay billions in back taxes and France put to task for illegally aiding them? Ah no, Total is French. There will be an under the table arrangement that will quietly absolve everyone involved of guilt. Please return to your Apple bashing...
Never heard of them and while that doesn't mean much, unless their work gets picked up by other distribs or ends up becoming a major disturb by itself, they don't matter.
The second cousin of the neighbour down the road of my third cousin (on my mothers side) bought crappy android phones for their dogs. It didn't end well even though they setup bank accounts for the puppies so the they could play angry birds because the crappy DACs in the phones were incapable of rendering the dog whistle frequencies the dogs had been trained with.
What does all that have to do with the removal of the jack not being the enormous issue some are trying to make of it? Nothing actually but I thought you deserved an off topic nonsensical reply to your off topic nonsensical fairy tale. If you want a crappy sub $50 phone go buy one, nobody is holding a gun to your head forcing you to buy an iphone7.