"Yes because consumers want the computers to be as fat and large as possible. Especially their laptops. They want to carry more weight not less. If Apple did what you suggest, are you going to complain that they are not innovative and are copying every other manufacturer?" The Air and the Macbook can be the light at all cost notebooks. Who really cares if your desktop machine is 2MM thinner?
"But in all seriousness, what do you need a PCI-E slot for? Video for gaming . . . and maybe that's it. Everything else is built into the motherboard these days. Most consumers only need the power of integrated video when surfing the internet (unless Flash is involved)."
VIdeo editing, gaming, and or CAD. The iMac and mini will be fine for all users that don't need a slot.
"Um, the MacPro is a tower. It's just a small one. M.2? You realize M.2 is just a connector for PCI-E or SATA right? PCI-E based storage is already available for the MacPro." M.2 is a standard and you can take advantage of the economy of scale. AKA you can get the latest for less. " As for SATA, you want Apple to use the slowest possible connector to storage for the workstation? Bays for drives: For what? With most pros using networked storage (especially for collaborative work), why does Apple need that again?" Because some workstation users need to use large datasets and SATA drives on your machine will be faster than a NAS or SAN. " GPUs? for what? The MacPro is a workstation, not a gaming machine. The current cards in the MacPro which are almost 3 years old are still good for professional work although they are a bit older."" UMM GPU Compute.. The GPUs and CPUs in the MacPro are not even the current generation. In fact the MacPro is using IvyBridge-E/EP and Haswell and now Broadwell-E/EP are now available. The new Pascal class GPUs as well as Tesla cards are much better GPU computer platforms than the AMD cards in the current MacPro. ATI also has better GPUs available as well but not if your a MacPro user. Sorry Mr. Cook but as a current Apple user I have to say that I love your OS but your current hardware just does not meet my needs or the needs of many other professionals.
"Is it really impossible, or merely difficult and challenging?" You left out the key word... Impractical. The floating solar farms would also be in that category. Besides if you were going to try it an OTEC would make a lot more sense than "floating" solar farms but the issue with linking them with power lines makes it impractical. Now an OTEC near Hawaii or on Hawaii makes a lot of sense. In fact they have even run a prototype on the big island.
"Problem is, the engineer(s) on the butcher block was/were probably their best. Un will wind up whittling down his rocket scientists to nothing." While I do feel sorry for Un's victims and their families I have to say that this is almost as bad of a "problem" as it was a problem that Hitler hated all the Jewish physicists. The only real problem is that they can not run away with their families.
"It seems silly to assign that job to a programmer. Personally, I would suggest consulting with the world's best electrical engineers. I hear engineers like a challenge." Seems silly for a programmer to advocate a solution that they have no idea how or if it can be implemented. AKA you failed to do even basic research into the subject and spouted off like some idiot from marketing.
Correct. I would rather see a separate box that you just attach to the monitor. However this is only useful for laptops. Dear Apple your anorexic design language is played out. iMacs, MacBook Pros, and MacPros do not have to be the smallest and thinnest devices. Give your customers a MacBook Pro that uses M.2 for SSDs and allows them to upgrade the ram! Give your desktop customers a line with at least one PCI-e slot and that uses desktop CPUs. Give your MacPro customers a tower with M.2, SATA, bays for drives, and slots for GPU cards.
Thunderbolt is not becoming a new standard it is becoming Fireware. Good for a some small markets but not a mass market interface.
" The average aluminum smelting plant can use hundreds of Megawatts." And those run 24/7 which will not work for solar at all. BTW that is also why the are often located near dams for cheap hydro power. See Iceland for example.
"Wrong solution. Connect world power grids and you don't have to store anything until the world produces more power than it uses (in which case, what's the point of storing it?)." Get back to me when you figure out how to run a grid across the oceans. and put solar cells in the middle of the Atlantic and pacific to make that 24/7 power work out for you. Take a good look at a map and you will see that there is a whole lot of ocean.
Actually I bet you do not have many brownouts at noon and that they start around 3 to 4 PM. Peak load tends to start around 3PM and runs to around 8PM. The hottest part of the day and the time when people are coming home and cooking and such. BTW production of power from PVs really drop off starting around 4PM in the summer.
No it is in the evening/late afternoon. I just pulled Las Vegas and the hourly forecast shows them hitting the high at 3PM and it stays a the high until 7PM. Noon which is solar pleak is 7 degrees lower than 6PM. Add in cooking loads, lighting, laundry, hot water for baths, TVs coming on and so on and peak power usage starts around 4 pm and runs until 8 PM https://www.pacificpower.net/y... So if peak production is solar noon then peak demand starts 3 hours later which is when output is really starting to drop off.
". Check the weather forecast for the next few days, and you know roughly how much you can expect to be produced." Same is true for wind. Yes you can have lulls but solar only makes power for around 8 hours a day and the peak never matches usage. Solar is about useless, wind is better, but nuclear is the best solution for low carbon power generation.
"exactly my point about reducing or eliminating binary blobs. e.g. by supporting the reverse engineering efforts of freedreno and nouveau for Snapdragon and Tegra hardware" Just not going to happen. It makes no real business sense. Google does not want to write the actual driver code for SOCs that is for the SOC makers to do.
People see this as a good thing but it actually points out the big problem with solar. It produces a lot of power at non-peak times and almost no power at peak usage time and none at other times. So in the morning when everyone is getting up and turning on TVs and cooking solar makes very little of power. At noon it makes way more power than is needed. Then in the evening when people are coming home, doing laundry, cooking, and taking showers solar makes little to no power. Then over night you get no power. Frankly solar is just not going to be practical until a storage method is worked out. IMHO Solar is about useless except in some specific locations. Wind is a much better bet for renewables. Hydro is great but we have really used most of it.
"Okay, a slight exaggeration then." What are you a freaking hamster? 3 years or even 5 years is very very very far from a "lifetime". I have a 10 year old PC that works just fine but I would not expect a smartphone to last 10 years because if the lack of expandability. It is not easy to add ram to an SOC or a new GPU. The real problem is when the SOC makers decide to not support that device any longer. That is what happened to my Nexus 7 and 10.
The price will go down. This should not be shocking to anyone. Like PCs the margins will become razor thin and everyone will have one. I wonder if you will see gaming phones as a niche market? The money will be in media, services, and apps which is where Apple and Google will make money in the future. AKA iTunes store and Google Play.
Not during a hurricane and frankly not local news. I can go and read the news but I can listen to the newscast on TV while getting ready for work. They could offer streaming over the internet and I can do that but it is easier to just turn on the TV and get the same thing. Broadcast tv is a good technology for real time broadcasts of data. It works well and frankly is free vs internet. I have a generator so I can watch TV when the power is down after a hurricane when I might not have internet for days.
Frankly with digital tv it is a real shame that more people do not put up antennas. Why pay for cable when you can get a lot of TV OTA for free? Add in that if you are watching OTA they can not track what you are watching. That should be a big deal for a lot of tin foil hat crowd.
"If I may speak for a second on behalf of everyone in the rest of the world..." No you may not.
"You guys really need to dig deeper for political talent. We in the outside world are getting worried about you if the current crop of clowns is the best you can find!"
1) Replaceable battery Yes. 2) Lifetime AOSP support Unreasonable. As CPUs get faster and standard memory gets larger you will run out of performance and space for the new OS over time. You can not run Windows XP on an old 286 much less Windows 7,8,or 10. Lifetime is a long time, I would like to see at least 5 years. 3) No Binary Blobs Not practical. Too many hardware providers do not want to make sure that they can legally open source their drivers. They may be using a tool kit that does may not be open sourced. In the end it offers a lot of risk and no real benefit. 4) FM Radio Nice but not critical. I would rather see a weather radio included but FM would not hurt. 5) MicroSD Yes. 6) Wireless charging Yes. 7) Ara Not yet. Over the years I have seen many attempts at "modular" devices and they have never lived up to the hype. Make that an extra device and keep the Nexus mainstream for now.
Of course Google could have just kept Motorola. I have a MotoX and I love it. It is well made and has been kept up to date with Android. The Moto G is a great low cost device as well. It is a shame that Google sold them off.
The Model 3 still costs about as much as a BMW 3 series. Frankly the Tesla fans are just too much. Consumer reports went from giving the Tesla it's highest rating ever to removing it recommended tag on the S because of reliability issues. Let's face it Consumer reports is your classic bunch of dirty hippies that should love the tesla. They are not in the car companies back pockets. The Model X is also having problems. Building cars is hard. Building inexpensive cars is really hard.
I guess you don't know that bash is not the only shell or that their have been other shell scripting languages in the past that are no not used often? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"And even if you do want DVB, what sort of Nerd uses the built-in tuner on a dumb TV?" I do. I use my antenna to watch the local network station morning news before I go to work. It is great for traffic, weather, and local news. You know things that are happening near me.
Simple don't take pictures of your tenants. You want pictures of the pool area then take them without people or throw a party and ask everyone that comes to sign a release form and then take the pictures.
But it is not just nokia but the paper industry. the iPad, Kindle, and the internet in general all have greatly reduced the use of paper for things like magazines, catalogs, and books.
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"Yes because consumers want the computers to be as fat and large as possible. Especially their laptops. They want to carry more weight not less. If Apple did what you suggest, are you going to complain that they are not innovative and are copying every other manufacturer?"
The Air and the Macbook can be the light at all cost notebooks. Who really cares if your desktop machine is 2MM thinner?
"But in all seriousness, what do you need a PCI-E slot for? Video for gaming . . . and maybe that's it. Everything else is built into the motherboard these days. Most consumers only need the power of integrated video when surfing the internet (unless Flash is involved)."
VIdeo editing, gaming, and or CAD. The iMac and mini will be fine for all users that don't need a slot.
"Um, the MacPro is a tower. It's just a small one. M.2? You realize M.2 is just a connector for PCI-E or SATA right? PCI-E based storage is already available for the MacPro."
M.2 is a standard and you can take advantage of the economy of scale. AKA you can get the latest for less.
" As for SATA, you want Apple to use the slowest possible connector to storage for the workstation? Bays for drives: For what? With most pros using networked storage (especially for collaborative work), why does Apple need that again?"
Because some workstation users need to use large datasets and SATA drives on your machine will be faster than a NAS or SAN.
" GPUs? for what? The MacPro is a workstation, not a gaming machine. The current cards in the MacPro which are almost 3 years old are still good for professional work although they are a bit older.""
UMM GPU Compute.. The GPUs and CPUs in the MacPro are not even the current generation. In fact the MacPro is using IvyBridge-E/EP and Haswell and now Broadwell-E/EP are now available. The new Pascal class GPUs as well as Tesla cards are much better GPU computer platforms than the AMD cards in the current MacPro. ATI also has better GPUs available as well but not if your a MacPro user.
Sorry Mr. Cook but as a current Apple user I have to say that I love your OS but your current hardware just does not meet my needs or the needs of many other professionals.
"Is it really impossible, or merely difficult and challenging?"
You left out the key word... Impractical.
The floating solar farms would also be in that category. Besides if you were going to try it an OTEC would make a lot more sense than "floating" solar farms but the issue with linking them with power lines makes it impractical.
Now an OTEC near Hawaii or on Hawaii makes a lot of sense. In fact they have even run a prototype on the big island.
"Problem is, the engineer(s) on the butcher block was/were probably their best. Un will wind up whittling down his rocket scientists to nothing."
While I do feel sorry for Un's victims and their families I have to say that this is almost as bad of a "problem" as it was a problem that Hitler hated all the Jewish physicists. The only real problem is that they can not run away with their families.
Mac sales are down. iPhone sales are down. iPad sales are down.
Wall Street is not happy with the lack of the next big thing.
So next generation Nuclear it is.
"It seems silly to assign that job to a programmer. Personally, I would suggest consulting with the world's best electrical engineers. I hear engineers like a challenge."
Seems silly for a programmer to advocate a solution that they have no idea how or if it can be implemented. AKA you failed to do even basic research into the subject and spouted off like some idiot from marketing.
Correct.
I would rather see a separate box that you just attach to the monitor. However this is only useful for laptops.
Dear Apple your anorexic design language is played out. iMacs, MacBook Pros, and MacPros do not have to be the smallest and thinnest devices.
Give your customers a MacBook Pro that uses M.2 for SSDs and allows them to upgrade the ram! Give your desktop customers a line with at least one PCI-e slot and that uses desktop CPUs. Give your MacPro customers a tower with M.2, SATA, bays for drives, and slots for GPU cards.
Thunderbolt is not becoming a new standard it is becoming Fireware. Good for a some small markets but not a mass market interface.
" The average aluminum smelting plant can use hundreds of Megawatts."
And those run 24/7 which will not work for solar at all.
BTW that is also why the are often located near dams for cheap hydro power. See Iceland for example.
"Wrong solution. Connect world power grids and you don't have to store anything until the world produces more power than it uses (in which case, what's the point of storing it?)."
Get back to me when you figure out how to run a grid across the oceans. and put solar cells in the middle of the Atlantic and pacific to make that 24/7 power work out for you. Take a good look at a map and you will see that there is a whole lot of ocean.
Actually I bet you do not have many brownouts at noon and that they start around 3 to 4 PM.
Peak load tends to start around 3PM and runs to around 8PM. The hottest part of the day and the time when people are coming home and cooking and such. BTW production of power from PVs really drop off starting around 4PM in the summer.
No it is in the evening/late afternoon. I just pulled Las Vegas and the hourly forecast shows them hitting the high at 3PM and it stays a the high until 7PM.
Noon which is solar pleak is 7 degrees lower than 6PM. Add in cooking loads, lighting, laundry, hot water for baths, TVs coming on and so on and peak power usage starts around 4 pm and runs until 8 PM https://www.pacificpower.net/y...
So if peak production is solar noon then peak demand starts 3 hours later which is when output is really starting to drop off.
I think that it would be an add on that uses the USB port or bluetooth.
". Check the weather forecast for the next few days, and you know roughly how much you can expect to be produced."
Same is true for wind.
Yes you can have lulls but solar only makes power for around 8 hours a day and the peak never matches usage.
Solar is about useless, wind is better, but nuclear is the best solution for low carbon power generation.
"exactly my point about reducing or eliminating binary blobs. e.g. by supporting the reverse engineering efforts of freedreno and nouveau for Snapdragon and Tegra hardware"
Just not going to happen. It makes no real business sense. Google does not want to write the actual driver code for SOCs that is for the SOC makers to do.
People see this as a good thing but it actually points out the big problem with solar.
It produces a lot of power at non-peak times and almost no power at peak usage time and none at other times.
So in the morning when everyone is getting up and turning on TVs and cooking solar makes very little of power. At noon it makes way more power than is needed. Then in the evening when people are coming home, doing laundry, cooking, and taking showers solar makes little to no power. Then over night you get no power.
Frankly solar is just not going to be practical until a storage method is worked out. IMHO Solar is about useless except in some specific locations. Wind is a much better bet for renewables. Hydro is great but we have really used most of it.
"Okay, a slight exaggeration then."
What are you a freaking hamster? 3 years or even 5 years is very very very far from a "lifetime".
I have a 10 year old PC that works just fine but I would not expect a smartphone to last 10 years because if the lack of expandability. It is not easy to add ram to an SOC or a new GPU.
The real problem is when the SOC makers decide to not support that device any longer. That is what happened to my Nexus 7 and 10.
The price will go down. This should not be shocking to anyone. Like PCs the margins will become razor thin and everyone will have one. I wonder if you will see gaming phones as a niche market?
The money will be in media, services, and apps which is where Apple and Google will make money in the future. AKA iTunes store and Google Play.
Not during a hurricane and frankly not local news. I can go and read the news but I can listen to the newscast on TV while getting ready for work. They could offer streaming over the internet and I can do that but it is easier to just turn on the TV and get the same thing.
Broadcast tv is a good technology for real time broadcasts of data. It works well and frankly is free vs internet. I have a generator so I can watch TV when the power is down after a hurricane when I might not have internet for days.
Frankly with digital tv it is a real shame that more people do not put up antennas. Why pay for cable when you can get a lot of TV OTA for free? Add in that if you are watching OTA they can not track what you are watching.
That should be a big deal for a lot of tin foil hat crowd.
"If I may speak for a second on behalf of everyone in the rest of the world..."
No you may not.
"You guys really need to dig deeper for political talent. We in the outside world are getting worried about you if the current crop of clowns is the best you can find!"
Could be worse, take a look at Putin.
1) Replaceable battery
Yes.
2) Lifetime AOSP support
Unreasonable. As CPUs get faster and standard memory gets larger you will run out of performance and space for the new OS over time. You can not run Windows XP on an old 286 much less Windows 7,8,or 10. Lifetime is a long time, I would like to see at least 5 years.
3) No Binary Blobs
Not practical. Too many hardware providers do not want to make sure that they can legally open source their drivers. They may be using a tool kit that does may not be open sourced. In the end it offers a lot of risk and no real benefit.
4) FM Radio
Nice but not critical. I would rather see a weather radio included but FM would not hurt.
5) MicroSD
Yes.
6) Wireless charging
Yes.
7) Ara
Not yet. Over the years I have seen many attempts at "modular" devices and they have never lived up to the hype. Make that an extra device and keep the Nexus mainstream for now.
Of course Google could have just kept Motorola. I have a MotoX and I love it. It is well made and has been kept up to date with Android. The Moto G is a great low cost device as well. It is a shame that Google sold them off.
The Model 3 still costs about as much as a BMW 3 series.
Frankly the Tesla fans are just too much. Consumer reports went from giving the Tesla it's highest rating ever to removing it recommended tag on the S because of reliability issues. Let's face it Consumer reports is your classic bunch of dirty hippies that should love the tesla. They are not in the car companies back pockets.
The Model X is also having problems.
Building cars is hard. Building inexpensive cars is really hard.
I guess you don't know that bash is not the only shell or that their have been other shell scripting languages in the past that are no not used often?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"And even if you do want DVB, what sort of Nerd uses the built-in tuner on a dumb TV?"
I do.
I use my antenna to watch the local network station morning news before I go to work. It is great for traffic, weather, and local news. You know things that are happening near me.
Simple don't take pictures of your tenants. You want pictures of the pool area then take them without people or throw a party and ask everyone that comes to sign a release form and then take the pictures.
But it is not just nokia but the paper industry. the iPad, Kindle, and the internet in general all have greatly reduced the use of paper for things like magazines, catalogs, and books.