SOME Microsoft execs used MacBooks, others use Lenovo, Dell, or HP. See, Microsoft believes in supporting it all, and working with it all. They'd prefer you run Windows on a Surface Pro, but if not, at least run Office apps. Or host your files on Azure.
Apple is an all-or-nothing place. The looks I get for carrying a Samsung phone around their buildings is priceless! Barely tolerated. Yet when it comes to actually engineering their products - it's all done on Windows. Why? Because OSX is too small of a player to be supported by the mainstream engineering tools for CAD. Apple - from a vendor standpoint - is irrelevant. And it's what they use Windows internally. Sucks, doesn't it?
So if Apple doesn't care about MFi, why even use it? All MFi does is add a layer of additional authentication over USB. You could eliminate MFi altogether and stuff would still work. It's just a way for Apple to earn $0.50 per product, and to ensure THEY have control over what accessories are offered into the market. I guess if you like handing over more money and having someone else dictate what you are allowed to buy it's a good move, but...
LOL - OK. Go off the deep end! We'll see what the latency is for iPhones with the W1 chip - my guess is it will be no better than Bluetooth 5, which is 100 msec. AptX low latency is about the fastest you'll get. And those CSR/Qualcomm AptX chips support AAC, MP3, SBC - and AptX lossless and AptX low latency.
Look, Apple must think there is SOME benefit to AptX, why else would it live in Macbooks and Apple TV? But schizophrenic Apple didn't put it into iOS devices. Maybe they couldn't figure out how to do it? Or they just wanted to make sure you couldn't use the same great CODECs in your iPhone as you can use in your Macbook.
So explain, then: is Apple wrong to include AptX in the Macbook and Apple TV, or is Apple wrong to exclude AptX from iOS devices? Because those two positions are diametrically opposed.
Can you show one that is actually Apple approved? Are you recommending that people use non-Apple-certified components for their iPhones, and to explicitly ignore Apple warnings for their products? In essence - proudly proclaiming that Apple is wrong?
See the above-linked earrings. They hold on, even if you're jumping around and running. Source: my wife, who has reactions to metal through her ears. Clip-ons and magnet-ons are fine, however...
MFi - yes, MFi be damned. Until Apple flips the "only legit MFi chips" bit in software and your cable no longer works. Apple doesn't want you to make easy-to-use cables. They still restrict 3rd parties from making USB-C to Lightning cables (Apple exclusive, you know!). But hey - you love it when Apple dictates what can be made as accessories for iPhones, and what you - the common consumer - is allowed to buy...
And it also provides technology that Apple simply refuses to provide: a stylus (I love making sketches and taking notes on my Note 5), split screen apps (two at one time on the big screen), and AptX Bluetooth (for decent audio quality, wirelessly).
Note that the Apple iPhone Accessory Spec specifically prohibits you from making a cable (or small dongle - there are minimum sizes listed) that could provide charging and audio at the same time. Yes, Apple BANS 3rd parties from providing you with a solution. But you can buy a large (1/3rd the size of the phone) hub from Apple and do it. Which I guess is convenient?
Meanwhile the iPhone continues its slide to irrelevancy as it approaches single-digit market share (apparently accelerating, given the cut in projected production).
PS: if Apple wanted to provide "industry leading" Bluetooth, they'd support AptX (like they do on Macs and Apple TVs) in the iPhone. But they don't. So they don't provide "industry leading" Bluetooth functionality at all as they do not have a high quality, low latency, or lossless Bluetooth audio solution (all of which are available with AptX).
Assange is a Russian operative? Is that why he's holed up in an Ecuadorian embassy, rather than in Russia as he recommended to Snowden? And the media gave all that attention to Trump because they thought it would destroy him. They'd talk about a tweet or rally, and then proceed to try to tear him down. It was their own fault. Of course, when the mainstream media was asking Hillary what questions to ask Trump, or giving her the debate questions before hand, well...
1. We have ZERO PROOF that the Russians were involved in the hack; in fact, those in direct control of the information (Assange et al) explicitly state it was NOT the Russians. 2. The release INFLUENCED the election by UNCOVERING the back-door dealings between the media and the DNC - which ITSELF was trying to influence the election!
Cool. So it's OK with you that the President stands by and ignores an actual, documented hack of the Federal Government. But gets all wee-wee'd up when a private organization is phished, and the only information that comes out shows collusion and political manipulation (debate questions ahead of time?) by the parties that were phished?
We had 21.5 million Federal employment and personnel files hacked (including SSNs, and other personal information), just back in early 2015. Nary a peep from the President. We had a PRIVATE organization (the DNC) phished for a password (Podesta's) and the President wants to take us to war. I guess for him, politics truly does reign supreme, who cares about the integrity and security of the Federal Government and the US when there's politics on the line...
I don't get where you can say 45% are Republicans, when Hillary won 61% to 31%. California has a Democrat supermajority (67% or more) in both houses, a massive39 of 53 Federal Representatives, and both Federal Senators. And a Democat Governor. California is as close to a single-party State as you can find, with ZERO ability by the GOP here to affect ANYTHING at Federal, State - and increasingly, local - levels.
See, it's not the message that matters, it's the messenger. As once famously stated "The nature of the evidence is irrelevant; it’s the seriousness of the charge that matters." Tom Foley, Democrat, Former Speaker of the House. Truthfulness - or lack thereof - is inconsequential in this case. It's the fact that what should have been kept from the plebians became public knowledge, and in the minds of the Democrats that is the REAL crime. Unless it was a leak about a Republican. In which case leaking is A-OK.
From Germany, the UK, Israel, etc. All those countries HE spied on, and tried to influence national elections within. After all, if he's so upset about rumored Russian involvement (and it is rumored - not a single shred of evidence yet, and the people who leaked the actual stuff, Wikileaks, state unequivocally it wasn't the Russians) then he should get on his knees and crawl across Europe asking for forgiveness from Merkel et al.
Yes, iOS gets occasional "blips" of big days, but the trend is unmistakable. iOS is sliding into irrelevancy (single digit market share) while Android is clearly taking it all.
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SOME Microsoft execs used MacBooks, others use Lenovo, Dell, or HP. See, Microsoft believes in supporting it all, and working with it all. They'd prefer you run Windows on a Surface Pro, but if not, at least run Office apps. Or host your files on Azure.
Apple is an all-or-nothing place. The looks I get for carrying a Samsung phone around their buildings is priceless! Barely tolerated. Yet when it comes to actually engineering their products - it's all done on Windows. Why? Because OSX is too small of a player to be supported by the mainstream engineering tools for CAD. Apple - from a vendor standpoint - is irrelevant. And it's what they use Windows internally. Sucks, doesn't it?
So if Apple doesn't care about MFi, why even use it? All MFi does is add a layer of additional authentication over USB. You could eliminate MFi altogether and stuff would still work. It's just a way for Apple to earn $0.50 per product, and to ensure THEY have control over what accessories are offered into the market. I guess if you like handing over more money and having someone else dictate what you are allowed to buy it's a good move, but...
LOL - OK. Go off the deep end! We'll see what the latency is for iPhones with the W1 chip - my guess is it will be no better than Bluetooth 5, which is 100 msec. AptX low latency is about the fastest you'll get. And those CSR/Qualcomm AptX chips support AAC, MP3, SBC - and AptX lossless and AptX low latency.
Look, Apple must think there is SOME benefit to AptX, why else would it live in Macbooks and Apple TV? But schizophrenic Apple didn't put it into iOS devices. Maybe they couldn't figure out how to do it? Or they just wanted to make sure you couldn't use the same great CODECs in your iPhone as you can use in your Macbook.
So explain, then: is Apple wrong to include AptX in the Macbook and Apple TV, or is Apple wrong to exclude AptX from iOS devices? Because those two positions are diametrically opposed.
When you talk about stability of the platform. Is that the Mac platform - or the platform used to design and engineer the Macs?
Can you show one that is actually Apple approved? Are you recommending that people use non-Apple-certified components for their iPhones, and to explicitly ignore Apple warnings for their products? In essence - proudly proclaiming that Apple is wrong?
See the above-linked earrings. They hold on, even if you're jumping around and running. Source: my wife, who has reactions to metal through her ears. Clip-ons and magnet-ons are fine, however...
MFi - yes, MFi be damned. Until Apple flips the "only legit MFi chips" bit in software and your cable no longer works. Apple doesn't want you to make easy-to-use cables. They still restrict 3rd parties from making USB-C to Lightning cables (Apple exclusive, you know!). But hey - you love it when Apple dictates what can be made as accessories for iPhones, and what you - the common consumer - is allowed to buy...
If only someone else had thought of a way to use magnets to attach things to your ear! This is courage taken to a new level, we're talking iCourage levels here...
Politico, no friend of conservatives or the GOP, has a story about 91% of Trump media as negative. And Mother Jones, a decidedly left-of-center outlet, shows that Trump got significantly more negative press than Hillary. Anyone who claims the media constantly hammered Hillary over her (Wikileaks-proven) lies about her private server and ignored Trump is either ignorant or a partisan whackjob.
Solidworks and Altium. Used for mechanical and electrical design inside Apple. Runs on Windows only - not OSX. Yes, Macs are designed on Windows...
And it also provides technology that Apple simply refuses to provide: a stylus (I love making sketches and taking notes on my Note 5), split screen apps (two at one time on the big screen), and AptX Bluetooth (for decent audio quality, wirelessly).
Note that the Apple iPhone Accessory Spec specifically prohibits you from making a cable (or small dongle - there are minimum sizes listed) that could provide charging and audio at the same time. Yes, Apple BANS 3rd parties from providing you with a solution. But you can buy a large (1/3rd the size of the phone) hub from Apple and do it. Which I guess is convenient?
Meanwhile the iPhone continues its slide to irrelevancy as it approaches single-digit market share (apparently accelerating, given the cut in projected production).
PS: if Apple wanted to provide "industry leading" Bluetooth, they'd support AptX (like they do on Macs and Apple TVs) in the iPhone. But they don't. So they don't provide "industry leading" Bluetooth functionality at all as they do not have a high quality, low latency, or lossless Bluetooth audio solution (all of which are available with AptX).
Assange is a Russian operative? Is that why he's holed up in an Ecuadorian embassy, rather than in Russia as he recommended to Snowden? And the media gave all that attention to Trump because they thought it would destroy him. They'd talk about a tweet or rally, and then proceed to try to tear him down. It was their own fault. Of course, when the mainstream media was asking Hillary what questions to ask Trump, or giving her the debate questions before hand, well...
But I get your point. Trump.
1. We have ZERO PROOF that the Russians were involved in the hack; in fact, those in direct control of the information (Assange et al) explicitly state it was NOT the Russians. 2. The release INFLUENCED the election by UNCOVERING the back-door dealings between the media and the DNC - which ITSELF was trying to influence the election!
I'm surprised you didn't blame this issue on the fact that those engineers in Cupertino use Windows to design the Macs...
No love for systemd???
Cool. So it's OK with you that the President stands by and ignores an actual, documented hack of the Federal Government. But gets all wee-wee'd up when a private organization is phished, and the only information that comes out shows collusion and political manipulation (debate questions ahead of time?) by the parties that were phished?
The comment you responded to didn't indicate that the person was a liberal
"Infested by Trump supporters". I think it's safe to assume they're not very taken with the GOP right now...
We had 21.5 million Federal employment and personnel files hacked (including SSNs, and other personal information), just back in early 2015. Nary a peep from the President. We had a PRIVATE organization (the DNC) phished for a password (Podesta's) and the President wants to take us to war. I guess for him, politics truly does reign supreme, who cares about the integrity and security of the Federal Government and the US when there's politics on the line...
I don't get where you can say 45% are Republicans, when Hillary won 61% to 31%. California has a Democrat supermajority (67% or more) in both houses, a massive39 of 53 Federal Representatives, and both Federal Senators. And a Democat Governor. California is as close to a single-party State as you can find, with ZERO ability by the GOP here to affect ANYTHING at Federal, State - and increasingly, local - levels.
See, it's not the message that matters, it's the messenger. As once famously stated "The nature of the evidence is irrelevant; it’s the seriousness of the charge that matters." Tom Foley, Democrat, Former Speaker of the House. Truthfulness - or lack thereof - is inconsequential in this case. It's the fact that what should have been kept from the plebians became public knowledge, and in the minds of the Democrats that is the REAL crime. Unless it was a leak about a Republican. In which case leaking is A-OK.
From Germany, the UK, Israel, etc. All those countries HE spied on, and tried to influence national elections within. After all, if he's so upset about rumored Russian involvement (and it is rumored - not a single shred of evidence yet, and the people who leaked the actual stuff, Wikileaks, state unequivocally it wasn't the Russians) then he should get on his knees and crawl across Europe asking for forgiveness from Merkel et al.
Yes, iOS gets occasional "blips" of big days, but the trend is unmistakable. iOS is sliding into irrelevancy (single digit market share) while Android is clearly taking it all.
At the $99 per unit price, you can buy a new one every year and be money ahead versus doing an iPhone...