Now watch as the ACs that have Mod Points Punish-Mod me from my currently Punish-Modded "Good" (down from "Excellent" in one day about a week ago) to "Poor". I'll keep you posted.
ACs don't get mod points. You have to be logged in and be a moderately active user to get mod points. Now a logged in user can post as an AC (although I'm suspect how anonymous it is because I've noticed that I can't comment as an AC and then mod my own post up) but someone who isn't logged in can't earn mod points.
What I meant was, Users that have Mod points, yet logon or post as AC to avoid Karmic Responsibility when they want to bash someone, would downmod me (as themselves). Sorry I didn't make that clear.
Praytell, when is the last time Apple admitted a security flaw? Windows is plagued by bad design decisions. Open source flaws usually tend to be dealt with fairly rapidly once discovered. I think you're going a little overboard calling people zealots there Chuck.
Can't say about Windows; but Apple does it regularly, and publicly, after an internal investigation and fix (which is the prudent thing to do, to protect users).
How is the christianist wing of the Republican Party (AOT,K) any different than any other fundamentalist sect of a religion?
Well for one thing, the people behind this are trying to pass a law banning gay emojis. Can you point to a Republican that's trying to ban gay emojis?
No.
Instead, they just went straight (no pun) to the heart (no pun) of the matter, and systematically attempted to "define marriage" by Constitutional Amendment in several states, before the Supreme Court put an end to their fun.
IMHO, that is a LOT worse than simply (and ridiculously) attempting to "ban" certain emojis.
MitchDev and I have to stand behind what we post, we are held accountable and can be foed, friended, gain or lose karma. You, no matter what you post, cannot be held accountable in any way. I can't say AC#1990234 is an asshole, as I don't know if AC#1990235 is the same or a different AC. The only AC that is easily identified is APK, and his third party posts acting like a random supporter, but even those could be multiple people all having fun trolling as APK.
Exactly!
That's why I have been calling for Slashdot to end the AC Posting. The idea was noble: Let people who have insider information get that info out without worrying (too much) about NDAs, reprisals, etc.
Unfortunately, all it has BECOME is an excuse for [fill-in-the-blank]-bashing, and has personally caused ME great amounts of Karmic damage (going from "Excellent" to "Poor" in one day) on this site, not once, not twice; but on three separate occasions.
And you know what posts get the most punish-modding? The ones that point out that ACs are, in fact, NOTHING more than exactly that: ANONYMOUS AND COWARDLY.
So STFU and FOAD, ALL ANONYMOUS COWARDS!
Every single one of you.
Now watch as the ACs that have Mod Points Punish-Mod me from my currently Punish-Modded "Good" (down from "Excellent" in one day about a week ago) to "Poor". I'll keep you posted.
look, do you know why there exists an entire product category of plastic connector protectors? BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE iphone 4/5/6 cable breaks at the stem in a year of normal use!
(seriously, apples cables are just as bad as any other, nokia used to make decent microusb cables but then they started ordering from the same places everyone else does and it's apple style copy shit)
EVERY SINGLE ONE?!?
Tell that to my pristine 4 year old iPhone 4s Cable, and my pristine 1.25 year old iPhone 6+ Cable.
Sorry. You're full of shit, and obviously don't know how to not abuse a cable. Note that you have had problems with other cables, too. So perhaps it is time to place the blame where it REALLY lies: You.
No one can make an abuse-proof cable. Ask the people of Western Electric, who tried their level best for DECADES to make pay telephone handset cables that vandals couldn't destroy. How many of those have you seen in your lifetime that were ripped bodily out of the handset/base? And that was an ARMORED cable...
... probably a calculated trade-off based on the (arguably reasonable) assumption that most Apple users don't actually do real computing.>
See? There you go again. Macs, like in your experience, are actually quite often used in very compute-intensive applications.
Apple replaced them quietly, except for mine because I was too lazy and didn't bring it in until the cable shielding was frayed. This set off the (totally arbitrary) biases of the Genius Bar, and they refused to replace it.
So, you admit that you let the damage go on to the point that it probably crossed a "go/no-go" warranty replacement threshold (which you simply assumed was "arbitrary"). Every company that does this sort of "depot replacement" type of service trains their personnel on what the company considers "normal wear and tear", and what is considered "customer negligence". IMHO, you simply crossed that threshold by waiting for secondary failures to occur.
... completely superficial, ding on it, which he counted as "abuse." The only abuse was from the Genius Bar, and directed at me. Assholes.
If that story is indeed true (without pics of the "superficial ding", how is anyone to know?), then those Apple Store employees WERE assholes, and you should have complained up the chain. Apple doesn't have the customer satisfaction ratings that they have always enjoyed by being assholes. But people are people, and I would never suggest that there are some Apple Retail employees that could be assholes. But I would bet that "escalating" the issue a bit would have rendered a more satisfactory result.
I've had the charging cable for my Macbook Pro replaced twice by Apple because it frays and fails.
Not sure if you were intending to be sarcastic when you said it resisted cracking.
Luckily, Apple replaced them both times without charge. I was particularly disappointed in how quickly the first replacement failed.
They only "fray" if the jacket is pulled out of the connector-body.
The jacket only gets pulled out of the connector-body if you yank the cable out like a weed, or if you repeatedly twist the connector instead of figuring out which way it "wants" to plug in.
Unfortunately, the people that think they keep getting defective cables are the same people that don't realize they are abusing them in the first place. The charging cable for my 2013 MacBook Pro is pristine. That's because I know how to treat cables nicely. When I was a sound engineer for a few years, I never had a failure of a microphone cable, either, even though they were plugged and unplugged, walked on, rolled-over, and coiled and un-coiled hundreds of times per year.
It all comes down to paying attention to the cable, and especially the junction of cable and connector (where nearly ALL failures occur).
You're just lucky that Apple values customer relations more than most companies.
And yet, every single damn apple cable I have is cracked, but I have very few cracked micro-usb cables. Replacement cables are one of the approaches Apple takes to tax you for refusing to buy a new upgrade every year. To quote Ratchet from Robots "Upgrades, people, upgrades!" Fuck apple and their deliberately flawed proprietary cables.
I only have one cracked Apple cable: An absolutely ancient 30 pin iPod charging/syncing cable that was pretty beat up when I came by it in a box of stuff.
YMMV; but seriously, in my experience, Apple cables are at least as good, if not better, than my other, PVC-jacketed, cables.
Apparently your dumb ass forgot to read the *MY* part.
No I didn't. But apparently YOUR dumb ass forgot to parse the sentence correctly. The subject of your sentence was "phones", not "my". Meaning that only "phones" had Wall-wart chargers.
I was saying that my LAPTOP had a Wall-wart charger.
You mean like Apple does with it's silicone-rubber cables that resist cracking...
You forgot to include the obligatory "/s". The rubber shielding on Apple's power cables is anything but crack-resistant.
(Not that I'm suggesting Microsoft's choices don't suck, but don't hold up Apple as an example to aspire to in this instance.)
I think the design goal was to look and feel expensive and trendy. How it wears is a different discussion.
No, the Design Goal was to provide increased flexibility over the typical PVC-jacketed cables, under more environmental conditions (particularly cold).
It was likely inspired by the cables on the soldering stations in the engineering labs at Apple. The base-to-pen cable is often silicone rubber-jacketed, and in my personal experience, they are unusually flexible and supple, tend not to kink nor tangle, and stay that way over time. The exact same characteristics that are exhibited by my MacBook Pro's silicone-rubber (or EDPM)-jacketed AC adapter cables.
Only my phones have wallwart-cord-device charging.
Sorry, wrong!
Although this 65W Apple Wall-wart charger (yes, that's an ad for a generic rip-off, but it has the best pictures) for my 2013 MacBook Pro comes with a cable that snaps in, in place of the built-in plug (which also has retractable "blades"), it does indeed function in "Wall-wart" configuration, too.
And yes, it's nice to have the flexibility. At home, I can just plug it into the power strip on my desk, but sometimes it is nice to have the extra 6 ft. of cord that the AC cable provides. Yes, I could just pack an extension cord; but it is nice that Apple's engineers were thinking of the user, and also providing an easy way to "localize" the same adapter (which operates from 100 - 240V AC also) both in Wall-wart and "brick" modes.
Oh, as you can see from the above pics, the Adapter also has little flip-up "horns" that form a cord-winder for the captive output cable (which also has a built-in cable-clip).
Complain all you want about Apple being a "fashion accessory" company; but these little features are all about usability, not "fashion".
It's cheaper than providing a high-quality cable which isn't as affected by wrapping
You mean like Apple does with it's silicone-rubber cables that resist cracking...
or providing a built in wrapping mechanism
You mean like Apple does on many chargers.
Now cue all the people who yank their charger cables out "by the roots" repeatedly, then complain that the cables eventually fail at the junction of the connector and cable.
Everything has a breaking-point; but obviously Microsoft paid absolutely ZERO attention to both the problem, and what's worse, to the supposed "solution".
More likely Google and Apple (and Samsung, etc) dumped money into their congress critters to get this to avoid having to produce different phones/OSs for each state...
The government doesn't need nor should they have Backdoors and bans on encryption. Citizens have more rights than the government, and they need to learn that, even if it's the hard way
Actually, the Government has ZERO Rights. The Government has only POWERS. Citizens, OTOH, have both Rights AND Powers.
Do you buy products from every back-alley Web site that offers merchandise for sale? No, probably not. You learn which ones can be trusted. Are there shady sites that try to scam you? Of course. Should we have only one Store where you buy things, to make sure you stay safe? Hardly.
Mobile devices are an exception to the rule, and for very good reason.
I've had to throw away two expensive Corsair power supplies last year. Two. So it's not just limited to "cheap chinese power supplies". (Corsair is supposed to be US/Taiwan manufacture). I'm cured, anyway. Won't be buying more of their stuff.
That's because you bought a re-labeled Chinese Junk power supply from a MEMORY manufacturer.
Just because a company otherwise good with other products decides that they want to put their name on something they know NOTHING about doesn't transmogrify the re-labeled product into something "Good", too.
Google IS currently free to do what they want. But should they be?
I'd like to see alternate app stores become available, giving users a real choice. Yes, I know Amazon and Samsung have their own stores, but they are available only to users of their own branded devices. Of course, you can side-load apps, but then you open the door to all kinds of security issues. What I want is alternative stores that are completely integrated. THAT would give us some true competition, and maybe some better rates for developers.
So you want the security of a Walled Garden and the ability to load Apps from every back-alley website, too?
Perhaps someone one day will have the brilliant idea to put left/right cursor keys on the virtual keyboard so you can go back and correct part of a URL.
The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have "cursor keys" (for left and right movement in a Text Field) on the "Landscape Mode" Keyboard Layout. The "key caps" look like "" but they are cursor keys.
I don't think it is fair to claim that hardware has 8 years of support when you have to apply third-party hacks to get the newer versions of OS X to work. Isn't that pretty much the definition of unsupported?
I don't know. If we were talking about Linux, I think that you'd be arguing the other direction.
But I admit I see your point.
Sure, you can make it work, but Apple won't help you get it to work, they even go and deliberately make it harder to accomplish than it needs to be.
I agree with the first clause of your sentence; but why do you say that Apple has deliberately made it harder to accomplish than it needs to be? Just because they decided to change/delete a Framework or an API, that does NOT imply that Apple did so in order to "deliberately make it harder to accomplish". It's the "deliberately" part that I take exception to; software changes, OSes change. Almost zero percent of the time is that done to DELIBERATELY orphan/inconvenience someone who purchased a piece of expensive hardware like a Mac Pro. For one reason, in Apple's case, Mac Pro sales are SO minimal compared with their other models, that it simply wouldn't be worth the bad publicity to DELIBERATELY try and force the owners of same into a "forced upgrade".
Stop trying to ascribe ridiculous "motives" to stuff like this. It makes you look foolish.
Explain. I am not an Apple user, so I didn't know that iPods stopped working unless you pay a subscription.
That has never been true.
Perhaps now is the time for Apple to offer Mac OS for sale to people using non-Mac PCs. They could make a killing with all of the users wanting to move away from Windows.
Except for the fact that their entire business model for OS X and Macintosh is based on HARDWARE sales. They tried licensing clones, and it damn-near bankrupted them.So, in order to make that work, they would have to charge a coupla-hundred dollars for OS X, AND resort to the draconian licensing schemes like Microsoft does with WIndows.
Yep. For nearly 4 DECADES, clear back to 1984. And even for stuff like Embedded Development, CAD, PCB Design, etc.
Can't say that it has always been easy to find acceptable tools, or that I never had to resort to Windows-based tools; but it is FAR from impossible, or even difficult, really.
And it gets easier with each passing year or two...
Apple didn't break compatibility with their old systems, in fact developed special tools to ease the transition between two completely different architectures!
Wow go google MacOSX Lion issues?:-) Adobe suite earlier than 4 no longer functions. Windows 10 is alot more compatible with older software than Apple by a longshot.
Lion was DEFINITELY a "transitional" version of OS X. Not making excuses; but everyone has more, and less, "backward-compatible" versions of the OSes. Lion had a Lion's share of compatibility issues, for sure; but they eventually got most, if not all, worked-out.
At least Apple has the cajones to actually try to move their OS forward, rather than simply making the spaghetti more and more entangled, like Microsoft does.
And it is interesting that you hold out Windows as being a shining example of Backwards Compatibility. When I used to have "Mac vs Windows" discussions with my (then very pro-Windows) boss, one of the things that he actually complained about with Windows was the fact that he had to re-purchase/upgrade several expensive software packages every time (or nearly every time) there was a new version of Windows. How does that square with your claim of "superior backward compatibility"?
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ACs aren't going anywhere. The mod system was set up with them in mind. If they're really trolls, they do get modded down.
But those mods don't actually count against their (real User's) Karma, do they?
If they do, then fine; I stand corrected. But if not, then that is a serious hole in the Karmic "justice" system on Slashdot.
Now watch as the ACs that have Mod Points Punish-Mod me from my currently Punish-Modded "Good" (down from "Excellent" in one day about a week ago) to "Poor". I'll keep you posted.
ACs don't get mod points. You have to be logged in and be a moderately active user to get mod points. Now a logged in user can post as an AC (although I'm suspect how anonymous it is because I've noticed that I can't comment as an AC and then mod my own post up) but someone who isn't logged in can't earn mod points.
What I meant was, Users that have Mod points, yet logon or post as AC to avoid Karmic Responsibility when they want to bash someone, would downmod me (as themselves). Sorry I didn't make that clear.
Praytell, when is the last time Apple admitted a security flaw? Windows is plagued by bad design decisions. Open source flaws usually tend to be dealt with fairly rapidly once discovered. I think you're going a little overboard calling people zealots there Chuck.
Can't say about Windows; but Apple does it regularly, and publicly, after an internal investigation and fix (which is the prudent thing to do, to protect users).
How is the christianist wing of the Republican Party (AOT,K) any different than any other fundamentalist sect of a religion?
Well for one thing, the people behind this are trying to pass a law banning gay emojis. Can you point to a Republican that's trying to ban gay emojis?
No.
Instead, they just went straight (no pun) to the heart (no pun) of the matter, and systematically attempted to "define marriage" by Constitutional Amendment in several states, before the Supreme Court put an end to their fun.
IMHO, that is a LOT worse than simply (and ridiculously) attempting to "ban" certain emojis.
Christianity is just a couple steps away from worshipping the sun. That's all you need to know about Christianity.
A COUPLE of steps?
More like ONE step.
MitchDev and I have to stand behind what we post, we are held accountable and can be foed, friended, gain or lose karma. You, no matter what you post, cannot be held accountable in any way. I can't say AC#1990234 is an asshole, as I don't know if AC#1990235 is the same or a different AC. The only AC that is easily identified is APK, and his third party posts acting like a random supporter, but even those could be multiple people all having fun trolling as APK.
Exactly!
That's why I have been calling for Slashdot to end the AC Posting. The idea was noble: Let people who have insider information get that info out without worrying (too much) about NDAs, reprisals, etc.
Unfortunately, all it has BECOME is an excuse for [fill-in-the-blank]-bashing, and has personally caused ME great amounts of Karmic damage (going from "Excellent" to "Poor" in one day) on this site, not once, not twice; but on three separate occasions.
And you know what posts get the most punish-modding? The ones that point out that ACs are, in fact, NOTHING more than exactly that: ANONYMOUS AND COWARDLY.
So STFU and FOAD, ALL ANONYMOUS COWARDS!
Every single one of you.
Now watch as the ACs that have Mod Points Punish-Mod me from my currently Punish-Modded "Good" (down from "Excellent" in one day about a week ago) to "Poor". I'll keep you posted.
resist cracking?
look, do you know why there exists an entire product category of plastic connector protectors? BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE iphone 4/5/6 cable breaks at the stem in a year of normal use!
(seriously, apples cables are just as bad as any other, nokia used to make decent microusb cables but then they started ordering from the same places everyone else does and it's apple style copy shit)
EVERY SINGLE ONE?!?
Tell that to my pristine 4 year old iPhone 4s Cable, and my pristine 1.25 year old iPhone 6+ Cable.
Sorry. You're full of shit, and obviously don't know how to not abuse a cable. Note that you have had problems with other cables, too. So perhaps it is time to place the blame where it REALLY lies: You.
No one can make an abuse-proof cable. Ask the people of Western Electric, who tried their level best for DECADES to make pay telephone handset cables that vandals couldn't destroy. How many of those have you seen in your lifetime that were ripped bodily out of the handset/base? And that was an ARMORED cable...
CAPTCHA: Shreds
... probably a calculated trade-off based on the (arguably reasonable) assumption that most Apple users don't actually do real computing.>
See? There you go again. Macs, like in your experience, are actually quite often used in very compute-intensive applications.
Apple replaced them quietly, except for mine because I was too lazy and didn't bring it in until the cable shielding was frayed. This set off the (totally arbitrary) biases of the Genius Bar, and they refused to replace it.
So, you admit that you let the damage go on to the point that it probably crossed a "go/no-go" warranty replacement threshold (which you simply assumed was "arbitrary"). Every company that does this sort of "depot replacement" type of service trains their personnel on what the company considers "normal wear and tear", and what is considered "customer negligence". IMHO, you simply crossed that threshold by waiting for secondary failures to occur.
... completely superficial, ding on it, which he counted as "abuse." The only abuse was from the Genius Bar, and directed at me. Assholes.
If that story is indeed true (without pics of the "superficial ding", how is anyone to know?), then those Apple Store employees WERE assholes, and you should have complained up the chain. Apple doesn't have the customer satisfaction ratings that they have always enjoyed by being assholes. But people are people, and I would never suggest that there are some Apple Retail employees that could be assholes. But I would bet that "escalating" the issue a bit would have rendered a more satisfactory result.
and UK has weird 50 cps power at double the sensible voltage. You have to go cheap when you have cheap power to handle.
Your power is 50 Candle-Power/Seconds?
1959 called, and wanted its abbreviation back.
It has been Hertz (Hz) for a LONG, LONG time (since 1960, in fact). At 59 yrs. old, I'm old enough to remember cps; but only as a small kid.
I've had the charging cable for my Macbook Pro replaced twice by Apple because it frays and fails.
Not sure if you were intending to be sarcastic when you said it resisted cracking.
Luckily, Apple replaced them both times without charge. I was particularly disappointed in how quickly the first replacement failed.
They only "fray" if the jacket is pulled out of the connector-body.
The jacket only gets pulled out of the connector-body if you yank the cable out like a weed, or if you repeatedly twist the connector instead of figuring out which way it "wants" to plug in.
Unfortunately, the people that think they keep getting defective cables are the same people that don't realize they are abusing them in the first place. The charging cable for my 2013 MacBook Pro is pristine. That's because I know how to treat cables nicely. When I was a sound engineer for a few years, I never had a failure of a microphone cable, either, even though they were plugged and unplugged, walked on, rolled-over, and coiled and un-coiled hundreds of times per year.
It all comes down to paying attention to the cable, and especially the junction of cable and connector (where nearly ALL failures occur).
You're just lucky that Apple values customer relations more than most companies.
And yet, every single damn apple cable I have is cracked, but I have very few cracked micro-usb cables. Replacement cables are one of the approaches Apple takes to tax you for refusing to buy a new upgrade every year. To quote Ratchet from Robots "Upgrades, people, upgrades!" Fuck apple and their deliberately flawed proprietary cables.
I only have one cracked Apple cable: An absolutely ancient 30 pin iPod charging/syncing cable that was pretty beat up when I came by it in a box of stuff.
YMMV; but seriously, in my experience, Apple cables are at least as good, if not better, than my other, PVC-jacketed, cables.
"Sorry, wrong!"
Apparently your dumb ass forgot to read the *MY* part.
No I didn't. But apparently YOUR dumb ass forgot to parse the sentence correctly. The subject of your sentence was "phones", not "my". Meaning that only "phones" had Wall-wart chargers.
I was saying that my LAPTOP had a Wall-wart charger.
You forgot to include the obligatory "/s". The rubber shielding on Apple's power cables is anything but crack-resistant.
(Not that I'm suggesting Microsoft's choices don't suck, but don't hold up Apple as an example to aspire to in this instance.)
I think the design goal was to look and feel expensive and trendy. How it wears is a different discussion.
No, the Design Goal was to provide increased flexibility over the typical PVC-jacketed cables, under more environmental conditions (particularly cold).
It was likely inspired by the cables on the soldering stations in the engineering labs at Apple. The base-to-pen cable is often silicone rubber-jacketed, and in my personal experience, they are unusually flexible and supple, tend not to kink nor tangle, and stay that way over time. The exact same characteristics that are exhibited by my MacBook Pro's silicone-rubber (or EDPM)-jacketed AC adapter cables.
Only my phones have wallwart-cord-device charging.
Sorry, wrong!
Although this 65W Apple Wall-wart charger (yes, that's an ad for a generic rip-off, but it has the best pictures) for my 2013 MacBook Pro comes with a cable that snaps in, in place of the built-in plug (which also has retractable "blades"), it does indeed function in "Wall-wart" configuration, too.
And yes, it's nice to have the flexibility. At home, I can just plug it into the power strip on my desk, but sometimes it is nice to have the extra 6 ft. of cord that the AC cable provides. Yes, I could just pack an extension cord; but it is nice that Apple's engineers were thinking of the user, and also providing an easy way to "localize" the same adapter (which operates from 100 - 240V AC also) both in Wall-wart and "brick" modes.
Oh, as you can see from the above pics, the Adapter also has little flip-up "horns" that form a cord-winder for the captive output cable (which also has a built-in cable-clip).
Complain all you want about Apple being a "fashion accessory" company; but these little features are all about usability, not "fashion".
It's cheaper than providing a high-quality cable which isn't as affected by wrapping
You mean like Apple does with it's silicone-rubber cables that resist cracking...
or providing a built in wrapping mechanism
You mean like Apple does on many chargers.
Now cue all the people who yank their charger cables out "by the roots" repeatedly, then complain that the cables eventually fail at the junction of the connector and cable.
Everything has a breaking-point; but obviously Microsoft paid absolutely ZERO attention to both the problem, and what's worse, to the supposed "solution".
More likely Google and Apple (and Samsung, etc) dumped money into their congress critters to get this to avoid having to produce different phones/OSs for each state...
The government doesn't need nor should they have Backdoors and bans on encryption. Citizens have more rights than the government, and they need to learn that, even if it's the hard way
Actually, the Government has ZERO Rights. The Government has only POWERS. Citizens, OTOH, have both Rights AND Powers.
ALWAYS keep that in mind.
Do you buy products from every back-alley Web site that offers merchandise for sale? No, probably not. You learn which ones can be trusted. Are there shady sites that try to scam you? Of course. Should we have only one Store where you buy things, to make sure you stay safe? Hardly.
Mobile devices are an exception to the rule, and for very good reason.
I've had to throw away two expensive Corsair power supplies last year. Two. So it's not just limited to "cheap chinese power supplies". (Corsair is supposed to be US/Taiwan manufacture). I'm cured, anyway. Won't be buying more of their stuff.
That's because you bought a re-labeled Chinese Junk power supply from a MEMORY manufacturer.
Just because a company otherwise good with other products decides that they want to put their name on something they know NOTHING about doesn't transmogrify the re-labeled product into something "Good", too.
Google IS currently free to do what they want. But should they be?
I'd like to see alternate app stores become available, giving users a real choice. Yes, I know Amazon and Samsung have their own stores, but they are available only to users of their own branded devices. Of course, you can side-load apps, but then you open the door to all kinds of security issues. What I want is alternative stores that are completely integrated. THAT would give us some true competition, and maybe some better rates for developers.
So you want the security of a Walled Garden and the ability to load Apps from every back-alley website, too?
Sorry, doesn't work that way in REAL life.
Perhaps someone one day will have the brilliant idea to put left/right cursor keys on the virtual keyboard so you can go back and correct part of a URL.
The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have "cursor keys" (for left and right movement in a Text Field) on the "Landscape Mode" Keyboard Layout. The "key caps" look like "" but they are cursor keys.
I don't think it is fair to claim that hardware has 8 years of support when you have to apply third-party hacks to get the newer versions of OS X to work. Isn't that pretty much the definition of unsupported?
I don't know. If we were talking about Linux, I think that you'd be arguing the other direction.
But I admit I see your point.
Sure, you can make it work, but Apple won't help you get it to work, they even go and deliberately make it harder to accomplish than it needs to be.
I agree with the first clause of your sentence; but why do you say that Apple has deliberately made it harder to accomplish than it needs to be? Just because they decided to change/delete a Framework or an API, that does NOT imply that Apple did so in order to "deliberately make it harder to accomplish". It's the "deliberately" part that I take exception to; software changes, OSes change. Almost zero percent of the time is that done to DELIBERATELY orphan/inconvenience someone who purchased a piece of expensive hardware like a Mac Pro. For one reason, in Apple's case, Mac Pro sales are SO minimal compared with their other models, that it simply wouldn't be worth the bad publicity to DELIBERATELY try and force the owners of same into a "forced upgrade".
Stop trying to ascribe ridiculous "motives" to stuff like this. It makes you look foolish.
why does everyone have to copy what Apple does?
Do you really want the answer to that question?
Explain. I am not an Apple user, so I didn't know that iPods stopped working unless you pay a subscription.
That has never been true.
Perhaps now is the time for Apple to offer Mac OS for sale to people using non-Mac PCs. They could make a killing with all of the users wanting to move away from Windows.
Except for the fact that their entire business model for OS X and Macintosh is based on HARDWARE sales. They tried licensing clones, and it damn-near bankrupted them.So, in order to make that work, they would have to charge a coupla-hundred dollars for OS X, AND resort to the draconian licensing schemes like Microsoft does with WIndows.
Have you actually tried using a Mac productively?
Yep. For nearly 4 DECADES, clear back to 1984. And even for stuff like Embedded Development, CAD, PCB Design, etc.
Can't say that it has always been easy to find acceptable tools, or that I never had to resort to Windows-based tools; but it is FAR from impossible, or even difficult, really.
And it gets easier with each passing year or two...
Apple didn't break compatibility with their old systems, in fact developed special tools to ease the transition between two completely different architectures!
Wow go google MacOSX Lion issues? :-) Adobe suite earlier than 4 no longer functions. Windows 10 is alot more compatible with older software than Apple by a longshot.
Lion was DEFINITELY a "transitional" version of OS X. Not making excuses; but everyone has more, and less, "backward-compatible" versions of the OSes. Lion had a Lion's share of compatibility issues, for sure; but they eventually got most, if not all, worked-out.
At least Apple has the cajones to actually try to move their OS forward, rather than simply making the spaghetti more and more entangled, like Microsoft does.
And it is interesting that you hold out Windows as being a shining example of Backwards Compatibility. When I used to have "Mac vs Windows" discussions with my (then very pro-Windows) boss, one of the things that he actually complained about with Windows was the fact that he had to re-purchase/upgrade several expensive software packages every time (or nearly every time) there was a new version of Windows. How does that square with your claim of "superior backward compatibility"?