Too late for you now.. but there are so many better (and cheaper) ways to do that.
There are piles and piles of multi port adapters that have USB-A, HDMI, and sometimes even ethernet.. all for much less than $100. If VGA is absolutely a must then you can just get an additional VGA adapter (note that this would be required regardless of which Macbook from the last decade you bought. I'm not even sure that *any* Macbook had a VGA connection...). If you needed to spend much more than $100 I'd be shocked.
four dongles? Why the would you do that? What are you connecting? I've got *one* that has multiple USB-A, SD, HDMI and Ethernet.. I connect it less than 5% of the time I'm using my laptop. Most everything I connect now has direct USB-C connections.
But the idea that people need four (heck.. even two) dongles is ridiculous. I'm sure someone out there needs an RS232 serial port and a VGA port.. but they are going to have dongles pretty much no matter what laptop they buy. To get the normal selection of laptop ports absolutely doesn't require more than one dongle and I'd rather have all that extra crap not inside the laptop. I can plug those cables on whichever side of the laptop I want and leave them off for the vast majority of time I don't need them. Perfect.
Yes.. you definitely can, at least on an iPhone. They're two completely separate features. And you can set the phone to wipe after 10 failed passcode attempts.
I've been wracking my brains since I read your first post.. what does not being a coward have anything to do with whether or not a phone has an anti theft lock?
Personally I'd rather that my phone is less likely to be attractive to a thief and thus less likely to be stolen. Activation lock (and the like from other manufacturers) have caused phone thefts to drop. People still steal them but it's a less attractive target since they know all the work that has to go into unlocking them. That's good enough for me.
As for ending up in a landfill.. the article shows that that doesn't happen. They end up getting sold off for parts or for people who for some reason are willing to put in the work.
Heck.. since you feel the way you do then just turn off the feature. Nobody's forcing you to leave it on. Now thieves can do as they like once they've got your phone. Easy peasy.
How do you suppose they can close the analog hole when headphones, by their very nature, are analog devices? If you can attach a set of headphones (or a speaker) to a device then the analog hole exists. It's impossible for it to be closed. Even if a wireless connection is required to connect to those headphones.. the headphones themselves will *still* be an analog device with no possible way of protecting the signal with DRM. Just can't be done.
So in other words.. not at all what you originally posted (that we *know* iPhone sales are down and this fact was clear from the q4 earnings report).
When you say "sales are down" it is assuredly *not* a more precise clarification to say "well.. actually they're flat". Apple has many times offered guidance lower than analysts' expectations. This is nothing new.
Oh wait.. what? Go ahead. Complete the thought. Own up to it. You can do it.
Also.. if you read the transcript of the call you'll see that it was Luca who said "I can reassure you that it is our objective to grow unit sales for every product category that we have". Tim said nothing of the sort.
Now who's cherry picking? 2015 was a massive outlier. Pent up demand for a large phone was satisfied when they released the iPhone 6. 2016, while a decrease from 2015, it was still a huge increase over 2014 and the trend continued upwards ever since.
Indeed it has slowed (as sales invariably must) but none of this is what the post I responded to said. They said that the iphone sales are down now and that this fact was admitted to in the quarterly report. Which is just not true.
I turned off Touch ID purchases on my phone just now.
In order to turn it back on I need to enter my apple ID password.
I just went and bought something in the app store. Entered my Apple ID password. It didn't ask me to turn on touch ID for purchases.
To add a new fingerprint it is *not* sufficient to simply have the phone unlocked. In order to access the "Touch ID and Passcode" page of the preferences you need to enter your passcode *again*. This is how it's always been ever since the original release of the 5S on iOS 7.
What's more.. if you have touch ID for purchases on and then you add a fingerprint you *must* enter your apple ID password before you can use those new fingerprints. You get a dialog that says "enter the password for [apple id] to enable the new fingerpints for iTunes and App Store purchases"
So all in all.. nothing you're complaining about is actually the case.
To add a new fingerprint you need to enter the unlock code for the phone. Your daughter had this so thatâ(TM)s how she did it. You let her.
In order to enable Touch ID for App Store purchases (which is off by default as far as I know) you need to type in your Apple ID password. Either you did that or she knows the password.
So, I don't congrats you since you cherry-picked models to make your point.
If by "cherry picked" you mean "the currently selling models" then sure. But since the person I responded to said "So what do we have now?" I took "now" to mean.. well.. now.. the models you can buy now.
Oh, yeah, and everything is soldered to the motherboard. RAM, CPU, GPU, SSD, everything.
What the hell are you talking about?
In the current 21.5" iMac 4K the Ram is replaceable, as are the CPU and SSD. Not easily replaceable.. but replaceable nonetheless. The GPU is indeed soldered in. Well done. 1/4.
In the 27" 5K iMac there's a hatch on the back to access the RAM, the cpu and ssd are upgradeable (with similar difficulty to the above). Heck.. even the Wifi/Bluetooth module is replaceable.
In the 27" iMac Pro it's the same story as the 21". All replaceable with some tricky disassembly/assembly. But definitely replaceable.
So really it's only the GPU that's soldered on. Congrats. You did worse than just randomly choosing components to declare as soldered in.
- Exceptions or alternatives will be allowed when homes are shaded by trees or buildings or when the home's roofs are too small to accommodate solar panels
... - Builders installing batteries like the Tesla Powerwall would get "compliance credits," allowing them to further reduce the size of the solar system.
I used to have an great actual buckling spring keyboard back in the mid 90s/early 00s. Was really amazing. Felt great. Loved the sound. Sadly it was an old PS/2 keyboard without the windows/cmd key so it couldn't come with me to the modern era. Also my office-mates hated how loud it was, haha.
One of the main reasons I love the last couple generations of full-sized plug in keyboards is how flat they are. They aren't very high off the desk and they're at a very shallow angle -- the very latest version even moreso. Makes for much less wrist strain than all of thicker, trational keyswitch keyboards. No need for a wrist rest and just the right amount of pressure needed to activate the key. After more than 20 years of daily typing (I'm a software developer) I now experience no wrist or finger pain at all. Every other keyboard is an evil torture device in comparison to these things.
Now.. obviously someone who does lots of gaming will have *very* different needs out of a keyboard. But for what I do and how much of the day I do it, these keyboards are damned near perfect.
Agreed completely. I didn't think I'd like this keyboard at all. I *loved* the previous generation. Then my wife bought one of the new Macbooks. I tried the keyboard and was surprised at how much I liked it. I went to the store to try one of the MBP keyboards since it's a little different (more key travel mainly). Typed on it for 10 or 15 minutes. Completely converted. I didn't buy one for a while after that but I was confident in my choice when the time came.
Now when I type on an old style keyboard I'm the same as you. I find it squishy and messy by comparison. Though it's still miles better than any other keyboard I've tried.
I've had mine for over a year (13" touchbar MBP).. and I don't baby this keyboard. It's fucking filthy.
I love the low key travel. I don't feel any strain in my fingers or wrists. It's *by* far the best laptop keyboard I've ever used. The previous winner was the previous style of MBP keyboards.
No stuck keys, no increase in typing errors. Just love it all around.
Now this isn't to say that people aren't having problems. I'm just adding my anecdote (and a few others who I know who have this same machine and love the keyboard) to the other anecdotes.
My leaving my front door unlocked does not mean you aren't guilty if breaking and entering if you open the door, walk in, and take something that isn't yours.
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Is it really that bad in the Apple eco-system now?
No. He's just making up stories in his head.
one thing is "a lot" to you?
You've got a very active fantasy life.
That can be done with one adapter with all four ports.
There are bucketloads of single adapters that will handle all of this and more. They're small, light and cheap.
Since we're just making up fantasies now: an angel will come down from the sky and fix it for free.
Too late for you now.. but there are so many better (and cheaper) ways to do that.
There are piles and piles of multi port adapters that have USB-A, HDMI, and sometimes even ethernet.. all for much less than $100. If VGA is absolutely a must then you can just get an additional VGA adapter (note that this would be required regardless of which Macbook from the last decade you bought. I'm not even sure that *any* Macbook had a VGA connection...). If you needed to spend much more than $100 I'd be shocked.
Hundreds of dollars on dongles? Come on.
four dongles? Why the would you do that? What are you connecting? I've got *one* that has multiple USB-A, SD, HDMI and Ethernet.. I connect it less than 5% of the time I'm using my laptop. Most everything I connect now has direct USB-C connections.
But the idea that people need four (heck.. even two) dongles is ridiculous. I'm sure someone out there needs an RS232 serial port and a VGA port.. but they are going to have dongles pretty much no matter what laptop they buy. To get the normal selection of laptop ports absolutely doesn't require more than one dongle and I'd rather have all that extra crap not inside the laptop. I can plug those cables on whichever side of the laptop I want and leave them off for the vast majority of time I don't need them. Perfect.
Yes.. you definitely can, at least on an iPhone. They're two completely separate features. And you can set the phone to wipe after 10 failed passcode attempts.
I've been wracking my brains since I read your first post.. what does not being a coward have anything to do with whether or not a phone has an anti theft lock?
Personally I'd rather that my phone is less likely to be attractive to a thief and thus less likely to be stolen. Activation lock (and the like from other manufacturers) have caused phone thefts to drop. People still steal them but it's a less attractive target since they know all the work that has to go into unlocking them. That's good enough for me.
As for ending up in a landfill.. the article shows that that doesn't happen. They end up getting sold off for parts or for people who for some reason are willing to put in the work.
Heck.. since you feel the way you do then just turn off the feature. Nobody's forcing you to leave it on. Now thieves can do as they like once they've got your phone. Easy peasy.
How do you suppose they can close the analog hole when headphones, by their very nature, are analog devices? If you can attach a set of headphones (or a speaker) to a device then the analog hole exists. It's impossible for it to be closed. Even if a wireless connection is required to connect to those headphones.. the headphones themselves will *still* be an analog device with no possible way of protecting the signal with DRM. Just can't be done.
So in other words.. not at all what you originally posted (that we *know* iPhone sales are down and this fact was clear from the q4 earnings report).
When you say "sales are down" it is assuredly *not* a more precise clarification to say "well.. actually they're flat". Apple has many times offered guidance lower than analysts' expectations. This is nothing new.
Oh wait.. what? Go ahead. Complete the thought. Own up to it. You can do it.
Also.. if you read the transcript of the call you'll see that it was Luca who said "I can reassure you that it is our objective to grow unit sales for every product category that we have". Tim said nothing of the sort.
Now who's cherry picking? 2015 was a massive outlier. Pent up demand for a large phone was satisfied when they released the iPhone 6. 2016, while a decrease from 2015, it was still a huge increase over 2014 and the trend continued upwards ever since.
Indeed it has slowed (as sales invariably must) but none of this is what the post I responded to said. They said that the iphone sales are down now and that this fact was admitted to in the quarterly report. Which is just not true.
We already know that I-phone sales are down, it was in the quarterly report
We do? It was?
The year ago quarter they sold 46.7 million phones. This quarter they sold 46.9 million.
FY 2017 they sold 216.8 million phones
FY 2018 they sold 217.7 million phones
Which of those figures show that sales are down?
Indeed. And zero more than iPhone 6 s plus or iPhone 7 plus.
People will find the stupidest things to complain about.
Sorry.. I just don't see what you're seeing.
I turned off Touch ID purchases on my phone just now.
In order to turn it back on I need to enter my apple ID password.
I just went and bought something in the app store. Entered my Apple ID password. It didn't ask me to turn on touch ID for purchases.
To add a new fingerprint it is *not* sufficient to simply have the phone unlocked. In order to access the "Touch ID and Passcode" page of the preferences you need to enter your passcode *again*. This is how it's always been ever since the original release of the 5S on iOS 7.
What's more.. if you have touch ID for purchases on and then you add a fingerprint you *must* enter your apple ID password before you can use those new fingerprints. You get a dialog that says "enter the password for [apple id] to enable the new fingerpints for iTunes and App Store purchases"
So all in all.. nothing you're complaining about is actually the case.
To add a new fingerprint you need to enter the unlock code for the phone. Your daughter had this so thatâ(TM)s how she did it. You let her.
In order to enable Touch ID for App Store purchases (which is off by default as far as I know) you need to type in your Apple ID password. Either you did that or she knows the password.
Not sure how much more protection you can expect.
So, I don't congrats you since you cherry-picked models to make your point.
If by "cherry picked" you mean "the currently selling models" then sure. But since the person I responded to said "So what do we have now?" I took "now" to mean.. well.. now.. the models you can buy now.
But sure.
Cherry picked.
Not much point replying to an AC.. but..
Oh, yeah, and everything is soldered to the motherboard. RAM, CPU, GPU, SSD, everything.
What the hell are you talking about?
In the current 21.5" iMac 4K the Ram is replaceable, as are the CPU and SSD. Not easily replaceable.. but replaceable nonetheless. The GPU is indeed soldered in. Well done. 1/4.
In the 27" 5K iMac there's a hatch on the back to access the RAM, the cpu and ssd are upgradeable (with similar difficulty to the above). Heck.. even the Wifi/Bluetooth module is replaceable.
In the 27" iMac Pro it's the same story as the 21". All replaceable with some tricky disassembly/assembly. But definitely replaceable.
So really it's only the GPU that's soldered on. Congrats. You did worse than just randomly choosing components to declare as soldered in.
From the article:
- Exceptions or alternatives will be allowed when homes are shaded by trees or buildings or when the home's roofs are too small to accommodate solar panels
...
- Builders installing batteries like the Tesla Powerwall would get "compliance credits," allowing them to further reduce the size of the solar system.
I used to have an great actual buckling spring keyboard back in the mid 90s/early 00s. Was really amazing. Felt great. Loved the sound. Sadly it was an old PS/2 keyboard without the windows/cmd key so it couldn't come with me to the modern era. Also my office-mates hated how loud it was, haha.
One of the main reasons I love the last couple generations of full-sized plug in keyboards is how flat they are. They aren't very high off the desk and they're at a very shallow angle -- the very latest version even moreso. Makes for much less wrist strain than all of thicker, trational keyswitch keyboards. No need for a wrist rest and just the right amount of pressure needed to activate the key. After more than 20 years of daily typing (I'm a software developer) I now experience no wrist or finger pain at all. Every other keyboard is an evil torture device in comparison to these things.
Now.. obviously someone who does lots of gaming will have *very* different needs out of a keyboard. But for what I do and how much of the day I do it, these keyboards are damned near perfect.
Agreed completely. I didn't think I'd like this keyboard at all. I *loved* the previous generation. Then my wife bought one of the new Macbooks. I tried the keyboard and was surprised at how much I liked it. I went to the store to try one of the MBP keyboards since it's a little different (more key travel mainly). Typed on it for 10 or 15 minutes. Completely converted. I didn't buy one for a while after that but I was confident in my choice when the time came.
Now when I type on an old style keyboard I'm the same as you. I find it squishy and messy by comparison. Though it's still miles better than any other keyboard I've tried.
I've had mine for over a year (13" touchbar MBP).. and I don't baby this keyboard. It's fucking filthy.
I love the low key travel. I don't feel any strain in my fingers or wrists. It's *by* far the best laptop keyboard I've ever used. The previous winner was the previous style of MBP keyboards.
No stuck keys, no increase in typing errors. Just love it all around.
Now this isn't to say that people aren't having problems. I'm just adding my anecdote (and a few others who I know who have this same machine and love the keyboard) to the other anecdotes.
No layer of security, no fucking crime
My leaving my front door unlocked does not mean you aren't guilty if breaking and entering if you open the door, walk in, and take something that isn't yours.