They are working on ways to push users into their ecosystem deeper.
Make SSDs too small to be useful but too expensive to upgrade, suddenly you want to pay for iCloud storage to store all your photos and music.
Looking at a PC laptop and throwing Linux on it, or buying a 2nd hand early 2015 MBP, the last good laptop Apple made.
Go look at the new ones.
Headphone socket on the RHS at the rear, where as headphones have the cables on the left.
This forced the cable to drape over the keyboard / trackpad.
Jobs would have fired the idiot who made that decision.
I think anyone that cared on the Mac side of things has left.
Does it have:
USB-A ports...NO
Mag-safe connector...NO
Ethernet.... NO
SDCard Reader.... NO
Thunderbolt 2 port.... NO
Proper Arrow key arrangement....NO
Upgradeable RAM.... NO
Upgradeable SSD.... NO
Ladies and gentleman, the NO's have it
So NO I will not be buying one which is a problem because my 2011MBP has died and Apple has nothing I would pay for in their product line. This is a first for me since the mid 1980's.
Macs are now "fashion: items, they have to look pretty, and come in different colours.
Think of them like dumb blondes, no one actually cares if they are incapable of doing a job, just so long as they look pretty and in a couple of years you can replace them with the next new model.
Hey Tim, takes your eyes off the bloody small screen, yeah you know the iPhone. LOOK for gods sake.
I have used Mac since the mid 1980's, I have now bought a PC laptop and run Linux on it.
I am am about to replace 200 Macs with PCs because we need ethernet, USB-A, Video out and we are NOT going to buy bloody dongles, adaptors and other crap over and above your already high prices. We have already replaced all of out 27" maxed out iMacs with Linux boxes for number crunching.
Tim, you have 3 options, do it right, sell it off, close it down. Currently you are NOT doing it right, and this time there is no Steve to save you. I went through the PPC 7300 years of garbage machines.
My shift to Linux has meant my Music is no longer iTunes, my Apps are no longer the App Store , my books are no longer the Apple store.... do you get it Tim, that eco system will DIE without the Mac and Apple becomes simply a one trick pony and will go the same way as Blackberry.
You are better off not having a product in the market than have one that is a failure.
You can imagine all the jokes "Microsofts phone will zune be gone" etc etc
That image of failure is not one that Microsoft wants to encourage, it implies their other products may also not be the best, or that alternatives may be better.
I have been a Mac user since the 1980's. My 2011MBP has died, I went looking and came away with the realisation that Apple does not produce anything that I would pay for, nothing!
Sorry Apple, I want Ethernet, USB-A, Audio, Thunderbolt 2 as well as 3, I want an SD card reader, I want a real keyboard with no wank bar at the top, I want a Mag-safe connector. I want to be able to upgrade the RAM myself, as well as the SSD storage, I have no intention of paying your "retail + 200%" prices.
I want better battery life, do I care if it will be thicker than last years model...hell no, that would actually be appreciated as the extra weight means it will not feel like its about to flip over on its back
Will it happen, I doubt it. Apple is like a teenager, so bloody busy looking at their small screen they can not see or hear what is happening around them.
So... the next mission is to figure out what a reasonable laptop with Linux on it will be....
And for all the Mac developers I had bought software off over the last 30+ years.... cheers, thanks, but I have to leave now.
In New Zealand our elections are held on a weekend to ensure the greatest number of people are able to vote.
We also have the ability to vote for something like 1-2 weeks prior via a "special vote"
We ensure the greatest opportunity to vote, we don't force people to vote, abstaining is a valid choice.
Well in New Zealand I have access to 26 different ISPs, Fibre goes in next week and I can have 900/400 unlimited, no traffic shaping, no port blocking, ie true net neutrality for US$68 / month.
This is what happens when you keep big business out of government and you have a government by the people for the people.
A 1MB App sold through the store for $20 costs Apple the exact same storage, backup, and data transmission costs as a 1MB Free App.
Developers are free to set their own price, including free.
And the software can be made available all over the world, and a Chinese Developer can compete on equal footing with an American, French, Australian, Mexican developer in every country.
You only need to look at Android to see that Apples Walled garden is actually the better option for 99% of owners.
The only thing Trump believes in is money, and money has "In god we trust", so who the hell needs science.
And the problem with science advisors, they know WAY too much that Trump does not understand.
And as for all the GREAT PEOPLE that Trump knows....he'll probably end up pardoning most of them, including himself.
And yet there is still no sign of Siri on the ATV4 for New Zealand customers.
New Zealand has Siri on their IOS and OSX devices, we do speak English (though there is some debate about that), so there is no good reason NOT to enable it.
This is currently the same tactic being used by spambots and anarchists
Look how many garbage posts are made in discussion forums, and they are growing in number.
The idea is to pollute sites where people can have reasoned, intelligent discussions with so much junk that it destroys the forum and drives the thinkers away.
This "normalises" abuse, hate, lies, anger, etc etc and that becomes part of normal society IRL.
Without rational discussion, "fake news" will rule because there will be nowhere to discuss truth and facts, provide evidence, and highlight the benefits of logical thought. People will become even MORE partisan, where right and wrong are replaced with left and right where both sides are wrong.
Back some 20-30 years ago news reporting was far less biased, they were far more interested in the facts and the truth. Now days when a news item does not conform to the bias that media outlet has the story is ignored, or simply buried and trivialised. This is dangerous , without knowing the truth no one can make and informed decision , and that truth is now being decided by a smaller and smaller cabal of wealthy people who have their own agenda. And when that happens democracy looses.
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They are working on ways to push users into their ecosystem deeper.
Make SSDs too small to be useful but too expensive to upgrade, suddenly you want to pay for iCloud storage to store all your photos and music.
Looking at a PC laptop and throwing Linux on it, or buying a 2nd hand early 2015 MBP, the last good laptop Apple made.
Go look at the new ones.
Headphone socket on the RHS at the rear, where as headphones have the cables on the left.
This forced the cable to drape over the keyboard / trackpad.
Jobs would have fired the idiot who made that decision.
I think anyone that cared on the Mac side of things has left.
I have been to about 10-12 different Apple stores all over the world, and the only thing I have ever bought was the international travel adaptors
I don't even bother going in these days, I can buy everything I want online, and cheaper
HUGE fan of the MagSafe , it has save my laptop from the grandkids and the dogs a number of times.
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And in the same time I have seen a number of PC laptops come in with damaged power connectors and broken screens
My PC owing friends say its the one thing they wish their PC had.
Does it have : ...NO .... NO .... NO .... NO ....NO .... NO .... NO
USB-A ports...NO
Mag-safe connector
Ethernet
SDCard Reader
Thunderbolt 2 port
Proper Arrow key arrangement
Upgradeable RAM
Upgradeable SSD
Ladies and gentleman, the NO's have it
So NO I will not be buying one which is a problem because my 2011MBP has died and Apple has nothing I would pay for in their product line. This is a first for me since the mid 1980's.
For decades the IRS was able to run sophisticated operations in Ireland.
This despite not having the internet or computers.
Google "Numbers stations", again been around for decades.
This has ZERO to do with making anyone "safe", its all about being able to control the masses.
You could take the intelligent option, swap Trump (the whole bloody family) for Snowden ( and give him a pardon at the same time).
Macs are now "fashion: items, they have to look pretty, and come in different colours.
Think of them like dumb blondes, no one actually cares if they are incapable of doing a job, just so long as they look pretty and in a couple of years you can replace them with the next new model.
Hey Tim, takes your eyes off the bloody small screen, yeah you know the iPhone. LOOK for gods sake.
I have used Mac since the mid 1980's, I have now bought a PC laptop and run Linux on it.
I am am about to replace 200 Macs with PCs because we need ethernet, USB-A, Video out and we are NOT going to buy bloody dongles, adaptors and other crap over and above your already high prices. We have already replaced all of out 27" maxed out iMacs with Linux boxes for number crunching.
Tim, you have 3 options, do it right, sell it off, close it down. Currently you are NOT doing it right, and this time there is no Steve to save you. I went through the PPC 7300 years of garbage machines.
My shift to Linux has meant my Music is no longer iTunes, my Apps are no longer the App Store , my books are no longer the Apple store.... do you get it Tim, that eco system will DIE without the Mac and Apple becomes simply a one trick pony and will go the same way as Blackberry.
You are better off not having a product in the market than have one that is a failure.
You can imagine all the jokes "Microsofts phone will zune be gone" etc etc
That image of failure is not one that Microsoft wants to encourage, it implies their other products may also not be the best, or that alternatives may be better.
This is a simple marketing strategy
Apple now has nothing I want to buy.
I have been a Mac user since the 1980's. My 2011MBP has died, I went looking and came away with the realisation that Apple does not produce anything that I would pay for, nothing!
Sorry Apple, I want Ethernet, USB-A, Audio, Thunderbolt 2 as well as 3, I want an SD card reader, I want a real keyboard with no wank bar at the top, I want a Mag-safe connector. I want to be able to upgrade the RAM myself, as well as the SSD storage, I have no intention of paying your "retail + 200%" prices.
I want better battery life, do I care if it will be thicker than last years model...hell no, that would actually be appreciated as the extra weight means it will not feel like its about to flip over on its back
Will it happen, I doubt it. Apple is like a teenager, so bloody busy looking at their small screen they can not see or hear what is happening around them.
So... the next mission is to figure out what a reasonable laptop with Linux on it will be....
And for all the Mac developers I had bought software off over the last 30+ years.... cheers, thanks, but I have to leave now.
1/3rd of NZs population lives in Auckland, that skews a lot of things here.
In New Zealand our elections are held on a weekend to ensure the greatest number of people are able to vote. We also have the ability to vote for something like 1-2 weeks prior via a "special vote" We ensure the greatest opportunity to vote, we don't force people to vote, abstaining is a valid choice.
Well in New Zealand I have access to 26 different ISPs, Fibre goes in next week and I can have 900/400 unlimited, no traffic shaping, no port blocking, ie true net neutrality for US$68 / month.
This is what happens when you keep big business out of government and you have a government by the people for the people.
You guys should try democracy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Trump knows great people, the best people, good people , if they weren't the best people he wouldn't have pardoned them.
If they were diagnosed from the image, then yes, however if they were diagnosed by a pathologist after the patient died then no.
The UK is, Australia is, New Zealand is, the EU is Watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The USA is not any better, by "the people" they mean "The corporations"
The USA has always treated its allies with contempt.
You just described Wall Street.
But here is another thought, US interests end at US boarders.
A 1MB App sold through the store for $20 costs Apple the exact same storage, backup, and data transmission costs as a 1MB Free App. Developers are free to set their own price, including free. And the software can be made available all over the world, and a Chinese Developer can compete on equal footing with an American, French, Australian, Mexican developer in every country. You only need to look at Android to see that Apples Walled garden is actually the better option for 99% of owners.
The only thing Trump believes in is money, and money has "In god we trust", so who the hell needs science. And the problem with science advisors, they know WAY too much that Trump does not understand. And as for all the GREAT PEOPLE that Trump knows....he'll probably end up pardoning most of them, including himself.
well it works on my iPhone, iPad, MBP, iMac etc , just not the ATV.
So no, accent is not the problem.
I had wondered if its because the ties NZ has to iTunes is a lot lower than other countries (ie we have zero access to TV shows).
And yet there is still no sign of Siri on the ATV4 for New Zealand customers.
New Zealand has Siri on their IOS and OSX devices, we do speak English (though there is some debate about that), so there is no good reason NOT to enable it.
This is currently the same tactic being used by spambots and anarchists
Look how many garbage posts are made in discussion forums, and they are growing in number.
The idea is to pollute sites where people can have reasoned, intelligent discussions with so much junk that it destroys the forum and drives the thinkers away.
This "normalises" abuse, hate, lies, anger, etc etc and that becomes part of normal society IRL.
Without rational discussion, "fake news" will rule because there will be nowhere to discuss truth and facts, provide evidence, and highlight the benefits of logical thought. People will become even MORE partisan, where right and wrong are replaced with left and right where both sides are wrong.
Back some 20-30 years ago news reporting was far less biased, they were far more interested in the facts and the truth. Now days when a news item does not conform to the bias that media outlet has the story is ignored, or simply buried and trivialised. This is dangerous , without knowing the truth no one can make and informed decision , and that truth is now being decided by a smaller and smaller cabal of wealthy people who have their own agenda. And when that happens democracy looses.