You'll notice that over the last few years, even the fanboys are getting annoyed by the stupid shit Apple is doing.
Keys with less travel on a supposedly "pro" laptop? Thinner computers for the sake of... what, exactly? People want more battery life, Apple keeps innovating on that end but it only results in the same battery life because they stupidly keep making their laptops thinner.
The low-end computers keep getting slow 5400 RPM drives, as if 7200 RPM drives were somehow incredibly more expensive. And Apple keeps using laptop parts in desktop computers which is just insane, not to mention that they're even making their desktop computers thinner. That doesn't help anyone. The last straw is that they're now soldering the RAM, meaning you can't even upgrade your computer a few years later. That's the complete opposite of being a green company. You can use all the solar panels all you want, Apple, it doesn't mean squat if your hardware gets discarded sooner than it needs to be.
Apple really is stagnating. Watch the 2014 Keynote when they introduce the "new" Mac mini. The hype and bullet points are misleading.
They wrote "PCIe-based flash storage" as if that was the default setup but they're still putting slow 5400 RPM in their computers, the flash storage is optional in all models. I would have been happier to see even only 120GB flash storage in the low-end rather than a slow 5400 RPM hard drive.
The fact that the low-end model is only 1.4GHz and that RAM is soldered on-board means that you absolutely need to buy a more expensive model right out of the gate, making the mini more expensive than it really needs to be. I was able to go from 4GB, then 8GB and now 16GB in my 2010 mini and I also removed the optical drive to add a 7200 RPM WD Black in the second bay. The only thing I'm not able to update is the old Core 2 Duo CPU. All those extra expenses were done over the course of 6 years, I would never have been able to pay the total price in 2010.
Apple used to sell zero iPhones. Then they sold a boatload of iPhones because nobody had an iPhone.
Today, almost everyone who wants an iPhone already has one and will keep it for a few years before buying a new one. So Apple aren't selling as many iPhones as they did when they introduced them.
So by comparison, Apple's iPhone sales are "essentially flat". That doesn't mean something changed in Apple's business, it just means the market is fucking saturated.
I hate business people, trying to deduce "facts" from thin air and numbers and not being able to understand reality, the thing that's happening outside their freakin' 50th floor office window.
Labels are insane to ask for $10/mo for streaming music. I pay less than that to watch unlimited movies and TV shows with Netflix.
I'd pay at most $5/mo for music, but there's so many free streaming options out there that it's not even worth looking for paid alternatives, no matter how good they are.
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Why is it called an eyePhone?
Being on Kickstarter gives them free extra publicity, especially since that's how they started years ago.
Yeah, everyone knows bluetooth implants are the way to go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Command+G.
They're the same keys. F8 is also play/pause, F10 is also mute/un-mute, etc.
You'll notice that over the last few years, even the fanboys are getting annoyed by the stupid shit Apple is doing.
Keys with less travel on a supposedly "pro" laptop? Thinner computers for the sake of... what, exactly? People want more battery life, Apple keeps innovating on that end but it only results in the same battery life because they stupidly keep making their laptops thinner.
The low-end computers keep getting slow 5400 RPM drives, as if 7200 RPM drives were somehow incredibly more expensive. And Apple keeps using laptop parts in desktop computers which is just insane, not to mention that they're even making their desktop computers thinner. That doesn't help anyone. The last straw is that they're now soldering the RAM, meaning you can't even upgrade your computer a few years later. That's the complete opposite of being a green company. You can use all the solar panels all you want, Apple, it doesn't mean squat if your hardware gets discarded sooner than it needs to be.
Apple really is stagnating. Watch the 2014 Keynote when they introduce the "new" Mac mini. The hype and bullet points are misleading.
They wrote "PCIe-based flash storage" as if that was the default setup but they're still putting slow 5400 RPM in their computers, the flash storage is optional in all models. I would have been happier to see even only 120GB flash storage in the low-end rather than a slow 5400 RPM hard drive.
The fact that the low-end model is only 1.4GHz and that RAM is soldered on-board means that you absolutely need to buy a more expensive model right out of the gate, making the mini more expensive than it really needs to be. I was able to go from 4GB, then 8GB and now 16GB in my 2010 mini and I also removed the optical drive to add a 7200 RPM WD Black in the second bay. The only thing I'm not able to update is the old Core 2 Duo CPU. All those extra expenses were done over the course of 6 years, I would never have been able to pay the total price in 2010.
But the spammer can/will easily filter out the +whatever part.
I hope companies don't start making exclusive games for their own VR headsets, the damn things are going to expensive as it is.
I'd like to be able to play the next Left 4 Dead game in VR with the DK2, for example.
The only thing from Bell Canada that's "coming real soon now" is your next invoice.
And even though the authors keep saying that it's not made to be a multiplayer game, people keep bitching about it.
You win post of the day! Congratulations!
Yeah.... no.
No Man's Sky seems interesting, both as a game and as a how it works.
I guess Steve Jobs was wrong about Microsoft "being McDonald's" after all.
People still go to McDonald's.
Hell yeah, between those two options, even ass-raped with the Windows phone is the better choice.
If all that's left is Android then I'm going back to a dumb flip-phone.
You're using it wrong.
What on Druidia is wrong with one two three four five?
I'm not even sure Google knows what email is!
Why would a farm need animals? How barbarian.
The future is computer-controlled, plant-based farming. Grow local, from anywhere.
Apple used to sell zero iPhones. Then they sold a boatload of iPhones because nobody had an iPhone.
Today, almost everyone who wants an iPhone already has one and will keep it for a few years before buying a new one. So Apple aren't selling as many iPhones as they did when they introduced them.
So by comparison, Apple's iPhone sales are "essentially flat". That doesn't mean something changed in Apple's business, it just means the market is fucking saturated.
I hate business people, trying to deduce "facts" from thin air and numbers and not being able to understand reality, the thing that's happening outside their freakin' 50th floor office window.
Of course not! Don't be an idiot, refrigerators are a relatively new invention.
Our ancestors woke up to a fully stocked wooden box every morning.
Labels are insane to ask for $10/mo for streaming music. I pay less than that to watch unlimited movies and TV shows with Netflix.
I'd pay at most $5/mo for music, but there's so many free streaming options out there that it's not even worth looking for paid alternatives, no matter how good they are.