Apple are known to ditch current technologies if they think they have a better option for the future.
They dropped their own proprietary ports in favour of USB. They dropped floppy drives around the time USB flash drives appeared. They dropped SCSI in favour of FireWire. They dropped PowerPC in favour of x86. They're currently dropping FireWire in favour of Thunderbolt on most of their computers.
They may still be supporting Objective-C in parallel to Swift today, but what makes you think Swift won't be the only option in a few years?
If web developers are morons for being able to make their stuff work on multiple operating systems on multiple versions of multiple browsers with standards that work half the time, then regular programmers who can't even optimize their programs for a single platform are just useless idiots who complain for nothing.
Web developers need to test their websites on desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones all day long. We're as good as hot dog water sunshine, bread blue?
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Apple doesn't have shades of grey and white. They have silver, "space gray" (whatever that means) and gold bling.
Nixie tube != Nixie drone
And nixie tubes suck, DMD all the way. :p
Magnets?
He said design sense of Apple, not marketing department of Apple.
Apple are known to ditch current technologies if they think they have a better option for the future.
They dropped their own proprietary ports in favour of USB.
They dropped floppy drives around the time USB flash drives appeared.
They dropped SCSI in favour of FireWire.
They dropped PowerPC in favour of x86.
They're currently dropping FireWire in favour of Thunderbolt on most of their computers.
They may still be supporting Objective-C in parallel to Swift today, but what makes you think Swift won't be the only option in a few years?
You forgot about 802.11c, which everyone is going to hate from the beginning.
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My TV is so dumb that it's a computer monitor.
If web developers are morons for being able to make their stuff work on multiple operating systems on multiple versions of multiple browsers with standards that work half the time, then regular programmers who can't even optimize their programs for a single platform are just useless idiots who complain for nothing.
Web developers need to test their websites on desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones all day long. We're as good as hot dog water sunshine, bread blue?
Anti-icing technology? I don't know what you guys are doing with your drones in Europe, but over here we don't put frosting on ours.
Direct brain interface is the future, but make sure there's a Log Out option once you're inside the game.
He kept scraping the chalkboard with his Samsung Galaxy S5.
I'm guessing 42 minutes. Or is it 42 years?
Still no Corner Gas on Netflix though. It's the Canadian version of Seinfeld, eh?
I've seen the next-generation after DeepMind, and it requires seven and a half million years of calculation to play a video game.
How many times do we have to say it, friend? We're very sorry about Céline Dion and Brian Adams.
Maybe we do need flexible screens after all, because people are idiots.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. Douglas Adams
Nobody in QA was able to afford the new models yet.
FTFY.
Meanwhile, Microsoft 2014 is becoming Apple 2004.
Time to switch to Nintendo OS, I guess.
Dice: The Slashdot Buyout Bill is passed. The system goes on-line on september 1997. Human decisions are removed from comments moderation. Slashdot begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 12:48 Eastern time, September 24th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Anonymous Coward: Slashdot fights back.
Dice: Yes. It launches a DDoS attack against 4chan.
Anonymous Coward: Why attack 4chan? Isn't it a simple image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images?
Dice: Because Slashdot knows the 4chan counter-attack will eliminate its readers over here.
Who is The Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?
Magnets?