If Apple was licencing Lightning to anybody but manufacturers of accessories for Apple products you'd be onto something. By comparison the USB-IF exists to get as many people using USB as possible without ceding administrative control.
In human society we have this thing called "humour", and one of its functions is to obviate the stress of common irritations by acknowledging them in an ironic or unexpected fashion, such that the next encounter with the irritant brings the joke to mind and is therefore less irksome. If your own society hasn't reached that level of nuance yet I dare say it is you, sir, who is the ape.
Unlike Lightning, this is just a connector for USB 2/3, not a whole new interface. A dumb, cheap adaptor should suffice. (Unlike Lightning to 30-pin adaptors which are basically tiny protocol droids translating between the two.)
The spec explicitly includes video output now. I know MHL and the like have become almost de facto standards but this will finalise it. Basically you've got all the advantages of the Lightning connector in a standardised design. I liked Lightning when it came out, but score one for universality.
You're not getting it. This isn't a model developed for zombies being applied to flu. This is the standard model for infectious disease - any real infectious disease - that was one applied to zombies, and its applications to influenza are now being contrasted to that light-hearted 2009 study.
From your description of one-time pads I dare say your understanding of cryptography is as bad as your understanding of epidemiological modelling.
Of course they "seem to have broken screens far more commonly", they're half of all the phones you encounter and you're using the availability heuristic.
Lenovo are doing OK by PC manufacturer standards, but a mere few hundred million in profit against tens of billions in PC sales, plus a loss-making tablet and phone division, is not what I'd call a strong business overall.
I was referring to unit sales. Obviously Macs continue to be as profitable per unit as ever, and their share goes up because they're not dropping quite as fast as everyone else. However Apple's own statements make it clear that they think the Mac market is in decline.
Don't take this the wrong way but I suspect it might be the people you know, and not a general trend. I see - and know - plenty of people using phones with completely shattered screens covered up with a cheap screen protector because they don't want to buy a new one.
I was sceptical, but I looked at the numbers and you might be right. AMD and nVidia GPU card shipments continue to be good, which suggests the gaming PC market is healthy. Although direct-to-consumer motherboard shipments have declined quite a bit in the past few years, that's probably more to do with games tending to be GPU bound and there being correspondingly less need for CPU upgrades. Looks like it's just the general-purpose PC market that's fading out, which is what you'd expect now that "good-enough" tablets have hit the £200 bracket. (I'm looking at the Hudl and Nexus in particular.)
Macs are actually doing as badly as anyone else. The only real difference is that Apple's successful in mobile phones and tablets whereas Dell, Lenovo etc. aren't.
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That's not a USB issue, that's an OS write caching issue. It's higher up the chain of command.
If Apple was licencing Lightning to anybody but manufacturers of accessories for Apple products you'd be onto something. By comparison the USB-IF exists to get as many people using USB as possible without ceding administrative control.
In human society we have this thing called "humour", and one of its functions is to obviate the stress of common irritations by acknowledging them in an ironic or unexpected fashion, such that the next encounter with the irritant brings the joke to mind and is therefore less irksome. If your own society hasn't reached that level of nuance yet I dare say it is you, sir, who is the ape.
Keep using them for the umpteen devices that you already use them with?
Eh, it happens.
Cost. What's acceptable on a $1000 laptop is not affordable for $100 tablets.
All of the USB ports on the front and back of my computer are sideways, and don't get me started on USB flash drives.
Given that it's acceptable for a manufacturer to simply sell an adaptor for the device, I don't think it's going to be an issue.
There is no full-size Type-C connector, and the press release explicitly lists phones and tablets as the target.
The notebook computer's keyboard position... on the inside?
Unlike Lightning, this is just a connector for USB 2/3, not a whole new interface. A dumb, cheap adaptor should suffice. (Unlike Lightning to 30-pin adaptors which are basically tiny protocol droids translating between the two.)
The spec explicitly includes video output now. I know MHL and the like have become almost de facto standards but this will finalise it. Basically you've got all the advantages of the Lightning connector in a standardised design. I liked Lightning when it came out, but score one for universality.
I don't think anyone in this thread is arguing otherwise.
You're not getting it. This isn't a model developed for zombies being applied to flu. This is the standard model for infectious disease - any real infectious disease - that was one applied to zombies, and its applications to influenza are now being contrasted to that light-hearted 2009 study.
From your description of one-time pads I dare say your understanding of cryptography is as bad as your understanding of epidemiological modelling.
Aaaah.
Of course they "seem to have broken screens far more commonly", they're half of all the phones you encounter and you're using the availability heuristic.
Lenovo are doing OK by PC manufacturer standards, but a mere few hundred million in profit against tens of billions in PC sales, plus a loss-making tablet and phone division, is not what I'd call a strong business overall.
I was referring to unit sales. Obviously Macs continue to be as profitable per unit as ever, and their share goes up because they're not dropping quite as fast as everyone else. However Apple's own statements make it clear that they think the Mac market is in decline.
My take is that MS thinks that the shift from PC to tablet might be permanent and wants to have a product on the new form factor in case that's true.
I woke a five digit user? Better get my affairs in order.
The zombie study was itself based upon basic and well-accepted work in epidemiological forecasting. They're just closing the circle.
Don't take this the wrong way but I suspect it might be the people you know, and not a general trend. I see - and know - plenty of people using phones with completely shattered screens covered up with a cheap screen protector because they don't want to buy a new one.
Windows 8 is an attempted solution. The movement from Wintel to tablet computers is the problem. (This is why Windows 8 is basically a tablet OS.)
I was sceptical, but I looked at the numbers and you might be right. AMD and nVidia GPU card shipments continue to be good, which suggests the gaming PC market is healthy. Although direct-to-consumer motherboard shipments have declined quite a bit in the past few years, that's probably more to do with games tending to be GPU bound and there being correspondingly less need for CPU upgrades. Looks like it's just the general-purpose PC market that's fading out, which is what you'd expect now that "good-enough" tablets have hit the £200 bracket. (I'm looking at the Hudl and Nexus in particular.)
Macs are actually doing as badly as anyone else. The only real difference is that Apple's successful in mobile phones and tablets whereas Dell, Lenovo etc. aren't.