This sounds like an answer to a question that nobody asked. Such as "you know, I love getting the high hard one from my cable company - I wonder if there's a way that I could get even more screwed by them, while getting worse wireless service than I get from my incumbent provider who also screws me bigtime?"
Yeah, except that apparently she hates press conferences and refuses to do them. I imagine holding a press conference is rather difficult when you know that every question coming to you is one you don't want asked, and you really don't want to answer.
Personally, I can't believe a word either of them says. Add to that the shockingly bad lapses in judgement that both have shown, and it really makes me wonder how this is the best we can come up with.
While I still agree that removing the jack is fucking retarded, it does make for an interesting opportunity for companies that have a bit of electronics design savvy to bring a fix to market: http://www.phonearena.com/news...
Most people are going to buy a case for their phone anyway. This one fixes a design flaw as well.
Apple may not lower it's price, but the carriers sure as shit do.
Paying full price, even for something with an Apple logo on it, is a choice made by someone who absolutely has to have the latest thing at the earliest possible moment. In their mind, having the thing earlier is worth the higher cost. Much like someone choosing to pay a higher amount of shipping to get it faster, I suppose.
Note: I'm not saying I agree with this justification in any way, just that you can look at it that way.
Yeah, how is it that a single private business can't achieve what it took one of the richest countries on the planet a nationwide effort on a larger scale than the Manhattan Project, and cost over $110B, inflation adjusted, with every single player in aerospace engineering working on different aspects of it?
Except that a private business doesn't have to involve manufacturers in every state and most every congressional district in order to build the thing, like Shuttle had to in order to get Congress to pay for it.
Overpriced and underwhelming. That's what happens when Congress gets involved. Every single time.
Yeah, because any time that we re-spin VMs that have a completely automated bootstrap script using something like Chef, I want to *manually* adjust DNS. It's especially fine having a manual process if you are using a tool like AWS CloudFormation where you could potentially have HUNDREDS of instances spawning when creating the stack, or the stack could automatically create / remove instances based on load.
What's funny is that I could go buy an iPhone 7 right now, and I wouldn't need to get "fleeced" for $150. Because it comes with a way to use wired headphones. And Bluetooth still exists, both in this phone, and in my headphones I already have.
I'm not going to buy an iPhone 7 right now, and maybe not ever; acting like the only way to get audio out is with Apple headphones is a straight fucking lie, and you know it.
You can find practically any tube you might be looking for on Amazon.com, if you know the part number. Many of the same tubes you can find on the specialty sites that serve audio fetishists who "roll tubes" in their single-ended triode tube amps can be found for half the price on Amazon.
If there is only one USB port, which is also used to charge the notebook, then yes, it's painful. Just like the fiasco with the single lightning port on the iPhone 7.
Please stop making excuses for bad design and making devices less useable.
Don't forget the other disadvantage: bluetooth audio doesn't have the fidelity that a simple fucking wire has, and has far more latency than a simple fucking wire has.
Oh, well if Anonymous Coward hardly ever uses it, then clearly it can go. I guess I'm doing it wrong when I arrive at my office, and plug in my headphones do I don't annoy the shit out of every other person nearby with all the conference calls I have to attend.
And no, I don't see "get new headphones" as a viable solution. I have a very comfortable and high quality set that I purchased already for a significant price, and removing the connectivity to them "just because" is the dumbest thing I can think of at this moment.
As I understand it, the migration away from Apple for post-production is mostly about hardware. Apple refuses to support CUDA in favor of OpenCL. Apple no longer makes a professional desktop, even though they still have a completely useless and completely overpriced "Mac Pro".
Remember when you could buy a Mac Pro that you could stuff 3 or 4 GPUs from Nvidia into? Just like any workstation-class PC you can buy or build yourself?
I don't know why we're all so surprised that Apple is removing yet another port from their hardware - the last one they removed that nobody puts on their lists (serial, floppy, optical drives) was PCI Express.
Remember when it used to be a choice between Final Cut Studio or Avid Media Composer? Then Adobe embraced CUDA, and Apple embraced stupid with Final Cut X. Within 4 years the entire market shifted. And nobody is talking about it.
Yeah, one of the nice things about the MacBook Pro series, and PowerBook G4 before them, is that you didn't need a docking station to get around bad design. Starting with FireWire, and continuing with Mini-DisplayPort and Thunderbolt, you had one or two cables to plug in coming off of a display that had FireWire / USB hubs built in that also acted as a "docking station".
Well, Apple is no longer shipping displays that do this (and also conveniently provided the MagSafe power cable too). And now they are playing with the horrible idea of removing yet another port from a notebook computer that is allegedly designed for professionals, who use things like amplifiers.
I've been using a portable Mac since 1998, and this kind of decision making might force me to Lenovo.
I know you're joking, but remember that Slack just got a multi-billion dollar buyout offer from Microsoft for making IRC a bit more pretty and extensible...
That might be true for companies that don't actually produce value, like Twitter. Twitter exists as a conduit for delivering eyeballs to advertisers, and must continue to grow and stay in the forefront, or those eyeballs go to the new guy that is in the forefront and the company shrivels like a piece of fruit left on the counter too long. See: Myspace.
Companies that actually produce goods of some kind don't necessarily have the same pressures.
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Don't worry, now that they've launched this, Messenger and Gchat are on borrowed time. Expect the plug to be pulled any day now...
This sounds like an answer to a question that nobody asked. Such as "you know, I love getting the high hard one from my cable company - I wonder if there's a way that I could get even more screwed by them, while getting worse wireless service than I get from my incumbent provider who also screws me bigtime?"
Yeah, except that apparently she hates press conferences and refuses to do them. I imagine holding a press conference is rather difficult when you know that every question coming to you is one you don't want asked, and you really don't want to answer.
Personally, I can't believe a word either of them says. Add to that the shockingly bad lapses in judgement that both have shown, and it really makes me wonder how this is the best we can come up with.
While I still agree that removing the jack is fucking retarded, it does make for an interesting opportunity for companies that have a bit of electronics design savvy to bring a fix to market: http://www.phonearena.com/news...
Most people are going to buy a case for their phone anyway. This one fixes a design flaw as well.
Apple may not lower it's price, but the carriers sure as shit do.
Paying full price, even for something with an Apple logo on it, is a choice made by someone who absolutely has to have the latest thing at the earliest possible moment. In their mind, having the thing earlier is worth the higher cost. Much like someone choosing to pay a higher amount of shipping to get it faster, I suppose.
Note: I'm not saying I agree with this justification in any way, just that you can look at it that way.
Yeah, how is it that a single private business can't achieve what it took one of the richest countries on the planet a nationwide effort on a larger scale than the Manhattan Project, and cost over $110B, inflation adjusted, with every single player in aerospace engineering working on different aspects of it?
What a moron!
Except that a private business doesn't have to involve manufacturers in every state and most every congressional district in order to build the thing, like Shuttle had to in order to get Congress to pay for it.
Overpriced and underwhelming. That's what happens when Congress gets involved. Every single time.
Yeah, because any time that we re-spin VMs that have a completely automated bootstrap script using something like Chef, I want to *manually* adjust DNS. It's especially fine having a manual process if you are using a tool like AWS CloudFormation where you could potentially have HUNDREDS of instances spawning when creating the stack, or the stack could automatically create / remove instances based on load.
You are a fucking idiot.
What's funny is that I could go buy an iPhone 7 right now, and I wouldn't need to get "fleeced" for $150. Because it comes with a way to use wired headphones. And Bluetooth still exists, both in this phone, and in my headphones I already have.
I'm not going to buy an iPhone 7 right now, and maybe not ever; acting like the only way to get audio out is with Apple headphones is a straight fucking lie, and you know it.
Stop spreading FUD.
Hmm, sounds a bit like Amazon Route53 and scripting you can do with the CLI, without the rest of Amazon Web Services.
You can find practically any tube you might be looking for on Amazon.com, if you know the part number. Many of the same tubes you can find on the specialty sites that serve audio fetishists who "roll tubes" in their single-ended triode tube amps can be found for half the price on Amazon.
If there is only one USB port, which is also used to charge the notebook, then yes, it's painful. Just like the fiasco with the single lightning port on the iPhone 7.
Please stop making excuses for bad design and making devices less useable.
Mac Pro always used Xeon CPUs. So yes, it's possible for them to have free lanes in a proper workstation.
The person who coined that lie was probably a VP at a Madison Avenue PR firm.
Perhaps not gaming, but this is a "pro" notebook, so having a VoIP conference call / video conference isn't exactly an edge case.
Don't forget the other disadvantage: bluetooth audio doesn't have the fidelity that a simple fucking wire has, and has far more latency than a simple fucking wire has.
Oh, well if Anonymous Coward hardly ever uses it, then clearly it can go. I guess I'm doing it wrong when I arrive at my office, and plug in my headphones do I don't annoy the shit out of every other person nearby with all the conference calls I have to attend.
And no, I don't see "get new headphones" as a viable solution. I have a very comfortable and high quality set that I purchased already for a significant price, and removing the connectivity to them "just because" is the dumbest thing I can think of at this moment.
As I understand it, the migration away from Apple for post-production is mostly about hardware. Apple refuses to support CUDA in favor of OpenCL. Apple no longer makes a professional desktop, even though they still have a completely useless and completely overpriced "Mac Pro".
Remember when you could buy a Mac Pro that you could stuff 3 or 4 GPUs from Nvidia into? Just like any workstation-class PC you can buy or build yourself?
I don't know why we're all so surprised that Apple is removing yet another port from their hardware - the last one they removed that nobody puts on their lists (serial, floppy, optical drives) was PCI Express.
Remember when it used to be a choice between Final Cut Studio or Avid Media Composer? Then Adobe embraced CUDA, and Apple embraced stupid with Final Cut X. Within 4 years the entire market shifted. And nobody is talking about it.
which is $3 we will be paying to solve a problem that doesn't exist, and deliver less audio quality than what we had before.
Removing the phono jack from a notebook computer is a solution looking for a problem.
Yeah, one of the nice things about the MacBook Pro series, and PowerBook G4 before them, is that you didn't need a docking station to get around bad design. Starting with FireWire, and continuing with Mini-DisplayPort and Thunderbolt, you had one or two cables to plug in coming off of a display that had FireWire / USB hubs built in that also acted as a "docking station".
Well, Apple is no longer shipping displays that do this (and also conveniently provided the MagSafe power cable too). And now they are playing with the horrible idea of removing yet another port from a notebook computer that is allegedly designed for professionals, who use things like amplifiers.
I've been using a portable Mac since 1998, and this kind of decision making might force me to Lenovo.
Yeah, because there aren't any fandroids out there that constantly belittle people using iOS. None whatsoever.
I know you're joking, but remember that Slack just got a multi-billion dollar buyout offer from Microsoft for making IRC a bit more pretty and extensible...
That might be true for companies that don't actually produce value, like Twitter. Twitter exists as a conduit for delivering eyeballs to advertisers, and must continue to grow and stay in the forefront, or those eyeballs go to the new guy that is in the forefront and the company shrivels like a piece of fruit left on the counter too long. See: Myspace.
Companies that actually produce goods of some kind don't necessarily have the same pressures.