I've worked projects there, and its nothing but room temperature IQs as far as the eye can see. If anyone living there happens upon this comment, you should head across the border to your north.
I'm as disappointed as everyone else in the new macbook pro, but I also recognize that its a great machine that been incorrectly positioned. If they had positioned it as "The best Macbook Air we've ever made" it would be enjoying completely different sentiment in the press. We'd all still be wondering WTF am I going to get a new pro level laptop, but it would be easier to move on if they admitted outright that they were abandoning the pro market.
Hopefully its not the same old mac with a row of e-ink enabled function keys. There hasn't been anything "pro" about the macbook pro line in just about forever.
Give one email address to computers, and reserve another one just for known humans. 35k unread from assorted semi-autonomous systems? Who cares. If you actually need something in there you've got search and filters. That way human correspondence doesn't get lost in the noise.
The difference is the anti-Oracle sentiment is universal. If this were about Microsoft some supporters would be jumping to their defense. The only people who ever defend Oracle are on their payroll.
Agreed. Making the laptop smaller is pointless if the bag of adapters you have to carry with you keeps getting bigger. Things are pretty absurd in Apple land as it is. I've got USB->Ethernet, TB->Ethernet, TB->HDMI, TB->VGA,TB->DVI, USB->Serial (two of them, and the Cisco adapters to go with them), A USB hub and a USB DVD drive, and yes, a pair of headphones (Earpods). I'm covered regardless of what kind of projector or customer equipment I need to interact with, but its a big bag of crap thats starting to dwarf the laptop they plug into.
They're adequate for listening, but if you do anything where people need to hear you, like webex meetings, conference calls, distance learning, etc, wireless headphones just make you look (or rather sound) bad. Nobody can take you seriously if you sound like you're calling from an offshore call center. It doesn't matter how courageous the wireless chip is when someone uses the microwave while you're trying to talk to a client.
There is no audio in that path. It moves the DAC into the headphones or the headphone dongle. The apple/beats ones are probably decent, or at least equivalent to the one that used to be in the phone. The cheap crap from china will still sound like cheap crap from china though.
Lightning connectors add $20 to the cost of whatever they are used in. There are authentication ships inside the connector with unique IDs. Cloned chip IDs used by Chinese counterfeiters are eventually blacklisted by IOS updates, but for everyone else, it gives apple control over what accessories are produced and by whom along with a tax on each accessory sold.
Wireless adds a lot of cost in dollars, battery life, and sound quality. Wired via the lightning connector means you can't keep the phone charged while driving if you live in a state with a handsfree mandate.
The DRM risks are more subtle, like they were with HDMI, so the impact will take a while to manifest.
By their own statistics, the all electric vehicle would not cut it on an average of 3 days a month. Seems like its not quite ready for prime time just yet. Maybe its ready to be that second vehicle for folks with short commutes, but electricity is not free. The same environmentalists that advocate all electric vehicles would oppose building all the power plants needed to keep them charged if everyone actually had one. Instead we have "flex alerts" and tiered power usage fees.
That's really the central problem from what you've posted. You need technical support so a ticket can get opened in whatever 3rd world coding farm they have outsourced the product to. Seeing that your support request is being handling by someone who's title says "customer retention" means you will never get a refund, and your issue will never be resolved. That's just not what they are there to do. On the org chart they probably roll up to the sales group.
When I last tried to use that service, most of the content was not available on the paid variant. What was on it had a bigger back catalog, but was too infested with commercials to be viable. I understand you can pay 50% more to reduce, but not eliminate, the commercials now. But did they ever get all the content moved over to the pay service? Otherwise dropping the free service seems brain dead, even for Hulu.
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I've worked projects there, and its nothing but room temperature IQs as far as the eye can see.
If anyone living there happens upon this comment, you should head across the border to your north.
The Governor who went MIA for a week so he could have an affair in Argentina.
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I'm as disappointed as everyone else in the new macbook pro, but I also recognize that its a great machine that been incorrectly positioned. If they had positioned it as "The best Macbook Air we've ever made" it would be enjoying completely different sentiment in the press. We'd all still be wondering WTF am I going to get a new pro level laptop, but it would be easier to move on if they admitted outright that they were abandoning the pro market.
That was the first thing I looked for too. Legitimate "Pro" laptops are shippings with 64gb. 16gb is pretty cramped.
Hopefully its not the same old mac with a row of e-ink enabled function keys. There hasn't been anything "pro" about the macbook pro line in just about forever.
Give one email address to computers, and reserve another one just for known humans. 35k unread from assorted semi-autonomous systems? Who cares. If you actually need something in there you've got search and filters. That way human correspondence doesn't get lost in the noise.
Thats the only way to ever hit 50%.
The difference is the anti-Oracle sentiment is universal. If this were about Microsoft some supporters would be jumping to their defense. The only people who ever defend Oracle are on their payroll.
Agreed. Making the laptop smaller is pointless if the bag of adapters you have to carry with you keeps getting bigger. Things are pretty absurd in Apple land as it is. I've got USB->Ethernet, TB->Ethernet, TB->HDMI, TB->VGA,TB->DVI, USB->Serial (two of them, and the Cisco adapters to go with them), A USB hub and a USB DVD drive, and yes, a pair of headphones (Earpods). I'm covered regardless of what kind of projector or customer equipment I need to interact with, but its a big bag of crap thats starting to dwarf the laptop they plug into.
They're adequate for listening, but if you do anything where people need to hear you, like webex meetings, conference calls, distance learning, etc, wireless headphones just make you look (or rather sound) bad. Nobody can take you seriously if you sound like you're calling from an offshore call center. It doesn't matter how courageous the wireless chip is when someone uses the microwave while you're trying to talk to a client.
I thought that died with metro, and the icon in win10 was just for people that needed to re-download past purchasing mistakes.
There is no audio in that path. It moves the DAC into the headphones or the headphone dongle. The apple/beats ones are probably decent, or at least equivalent to the one that used to be in the phone. The cheap crap from china will still sound like cheap crap from china though.
ROFLOL. You're confusing lightning with Thunderbolt. just choked on my coffee.
There isn't. The wired audio adapter consumes the port and has no provisions for charging.
Lightning connectors add $20 to the cost of whatever they are used in. There are authentication ships inside the connector with unique IDs. Cloned chip IDs used by Chinese counterfeiters are eventually blacklisted by IOS updates, but for everyone else, it gives apple control over what accessories are produced and by whom along with a tax on each accessory sold.
Wireless adds a lot of cost in dollars, battery life, and sound quality.
Wired via the lightning connector means you can't keep the phone charged while driving if you live in a state with a handsfree mandate.
The DRM risks are more subtle, like they were with HDMI, so the impact will take a while to manifest.
The hardware shipping now is technologically ancient. There has been any "new" mac hardware in a really long time. Just old crap in new boxes.
and too much of it
and Y is for "Yuck!", got it.
on the desktop anyway, and on the server it would be the ever increasing ram consumption by misguided java developers.
Its never been good at math, now we know its not good at presenting data sets either.
Seems newsworthy.
By their own statistics, the all electric vehicle would not cut it on an average of 3 days a month. Seems like its not quite ready for prime time just yet. Maybe its ready to be that second vehicle for folks with short commutes, but electricity is not free. The same environmentalists that advocate all electric vehicles would oppose building all the power plants needed to keep them charged if everyone actually had one. Instead we have "flex alerts" and tiered power usage fees.
That's really the central problem from what you've posted. You need technical support so a ticket can get opened in whatever 3rd world coding farm they have outsourced the product to. Seeing that your support request is being handling by someone who's title says "customer retention" means you will never get a refund, and your issue will never be resolved. That's just not what they are there to do. On the org chart they probably roll up to the sales group.
Cut your losses and move on.
When I last tried to use that service, most of the content was not available on the paid variant. What was on it had a bigger back catalog, but was too infested with commercials to be viable. I understand you can pay 50% more to reduce, but not eliminate, the commercials now. But did they ever get all the content moved over to the pay service? Otherwise dropping the free service seems brain dead, even for Hulu.