I think it's more a focus on Lightning accessories.
First there's the power+charging issue to sell more dongles. Second, the adaptor comes in the box but most wired users won't like the hassle, which will drive sales of Lightning wired-headphones.
But Lightning is an iOS only technology, so users will then need an adaptor if they want to plug their iPhone-specific headphones into their Macbook.
Call me a cynic but if Apple had wanted to break compatibility they would have ditched Lightning on the iPhone 7; replacing it with USB type-C and providing adaptors in the box for Lightning AND the headphone jack.
The discussion was on Apple bothering to whitelist cryptocurrencies. A point was stated that bitcoin was a scam only used by money laundering criminals on the dark web. But apparently in Keene, NH *everyone* uses it for real world transactions!
Macs have USB host functionality while iOS devices, for the most part, do not. Placing a USB-C port on an iOS device might encourage people to think that they could plug in all sorts of USB devices
Yes well that's a selling point of Android, I guess - with USB On-The-Go. Whereas iOS seems to have settled on the Bluetooth paradigm.
Okay, well it only just reached my corner of Oceania.
I presumed it was some kind of Get Smart reference - or maybe the producers of the show chose that number due to Max's predilection for cocking up things.
With a corresponding 4-port USB hub, since machines don't come with enough ports for the 'power user'.
Hubs exist for Android phones with USB-OTG and MHL/Slimport passthrough. So I'd expect 3rd parties to oblige for Apple's connector, perhaps even with Lightning USB OTG support for existing USB audio solutions.
I guess Californian hipsters designing these things don't have any decent radio stations or have enormous data plans. FM is built into every Qualcomm SoC, iirc.
LG recently released a phone with DAB+ digital radio; maybe that will catch on instead.
$100? Maybe for original OEMs but I ordered a replacement battery off ebay for my Mum's HTC for under $25 inc shipping, local stock delivered within a week. (Although perhaps one wouldn't take the risk on a new > $500 purchase.)
Powerbanks certainly have their uses but I wouldn't want to have a 2m cable sticking out of my bag while I'm using the thing. I use my phone as a camera and remember hiking around Lake Louise in Alberta where there are 2 tea houses high in the peaks but no electricity! Taking photos and video when you could just swap in a new battery at 4pm and keep shooting until sunset would have been the go.
Indeed, when I bought new hardware I switched to debian testing (or whichever bleeding edge Fedora/Ubuntu based distro you prefer) because LTS would run suboptimally until kernels and Xorg were updated for the newest hardware.
If MS have made architectural optimisation to Windows 10 then I wouldn't expect them to backport significant changes. That might be seen as a big conspiracy to some but for a 7 year old release you'd expect only bug and security fixes.
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I think it's more a focus on Lightning accessories.
First there's the power+charging issue to sell more dongles. Second, the adaptor comes in the box but most wired users won't like the hassle, which will drive sales of Lightning wired-headphones.
But Lightning is an iOS only technology, so users will then need an adaptor if they want to plug their iPhone-specific headphones into their Macbook.
Call me a cynic but if Apple had wanted to break compatibility they would have ditched Lightning on the iPhone 7; replacing it with USB type-C and providing adaptors in the box for Lightning AND the headphone jack.
They aired Episode 1, "The Man Trap" on TV today.
Uhura was flirting heavily with Spock on the bridge and not reciprocated. So Kirk was definitely not her first choice.
Denny Crane!
They explored resurrection in a couple of episodes of Voyager.
In one episode (Mortal Coil) Neelix is killed on an away mission. Seven performs some Borg magic and he's back again but haunted by the afterlife.
In another (Ashes 2 Ashes), Harry's girlfriend returns a couple of years after dying, having been reincarnated as an alien and having to choose.
DS9 discussion recently on Ars Technica.
Lightning Audio + Charge RockStar
I hear you like dongles, so with the belkin dongle attached to your analog dongle, you can dongle while you dongle.
'poor"? Hardly.
They're several times the price of those brightly coloured netbooks that HP pumps out with specs barely changed in a decade - WXGA.
I believe so.
The discussion was on Apple bothering to whitelist cryptocurrencies. A point was stated that bitcoin was a scam only used by money laundering criminals on the dark web. But apparently in Keene, NH *everyone* uses it for real world transactions!
And drive everywhere. I listen to the radio on urban walks or public transport.
Radio is great when travelling. New city, scan for stations and find about local gigs and events happening tonight.
Who cares what Tim Cook thinks? :) From my point of view, the customer, it's a missing feature.
Yes well that's a selling point of Android, I guess - with USB On-The-Go. Whereas iOS seems to have settled on the Bluetooth paradigm.
As someone posted on another thread, Apple will sell you an iPhone Lightning Dock for $49.
Except that Apple themselves use USB-C rather than Lightning for their Macbook.
Is there any reason to prefer one port for macOS hardware and another for iOS?
So $US49, using your phone's Lightning USB cable (included but otherwise $29)
That's one dock for iOS (Lightning) and another dock for attaching peripherals to macOS (USB-C).
Heaven forbid they pick a common hardware standard for all devices!
phone-yness, I see what you did there! :)
I read on Slashdot only a few days ago of some utopian hamlet in New Hampshire where one can pay for everything in bitcoin. :)
Okay, well it only just reached my corner of Oceania.
I presumed it was some kind of Get Smart reference - or maybe the producers of the show chose that number due to Max's predilection for cocking up things.
With a corresponding 4-port USB hub, since machines don't come with enough ports for the 'power user'.
Hubs exist for Android phones with USB-OTG and MHL/Slimport passthrough. So I'd expect 3rd parties to oblige for Apple's connector, perhaps even with Lightning USB OTG support for existing USB audio solutions.
Yeah, Nexus phones don't support FM either.
I guess Californian hipsters designing these things don't have any decent radio stations or have enormous data plans. FM is built into every Qualcomm SoC, iirc.
LG recently released a phone with DAB+ digital radio; maybe that will catch on instead.
When did 86 become a verb?
not really. They basically killed off the Lumia line with the 950 series, beyond the budget of anyone curious.
Although, certain pundits were incorrectly predicting the "surface phone" launch at this week's IFA 2016.
$100? Maybe for original OEMs but I ordered a replacement battery off ebay for my Mum's HTC for under $25 inc shipping, local stock delivered within a week. (Although perhaps one wouldn't take the risk on a new > $500 purchase.)
Powerbanks certainly have their uses but I wouldn't want to have a 2m cable sticking out of my bag while I'm using the thing. I use my phone as a camera and remember hiking around Lake Louise in Alberta where there are 2 tea houses high in the peaks but no electricity! Taking photos and video when you could just swap in a new battery at 4pm and keep shooting until sunset would have been the go.
Indeed, when I bought new hardware I switched to debian testing (or whichever bleeding edge Fedora/Ubuntu based distro you prefer) because LTS would run suboptimally until kernels and Xorg were updated for the newest hardware.
If MS have made architectural optimisation to Windows 10 then I wouldn't expect them to backport significant changes. That might be seen as a big conspiracy to some but for a 7 year old release you'd expect only bug and security fixes.
Several cleanroom implementations of flash exist. None of them work - they don't even get detected.
And I've written to website maintainers asking them to support Shumway to be put on the TODO list.
And for 'legacy' content, consider the educational sector which has course materials that don't receive funding to migrate to newer tech.
And in 2016 a fruit company is the biggest in the world. (Which coincidentally co-founded ARM back in 1990.)