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I went from drinking ~6 cans per week down to ~1 can per week about 3 months ago.
It wasn't all that hard. We just stopped buying soda at the grocery store. Now the only time I have soda is when we eat out. The soda I used to drink at work all got replaced with water.
I'm not going to talk about how much better I feel (pretty sure I feel about the same now as before)... I thought that I would have some kind of withdraw symptoms or something from not having soda at work anymore. That didn't happen. I feel fine. I save some money on my weekly grocery bill now.
Another bogus list.
I would also question why these companies including Mac Rumors are insistant on calling them Google still? Google is a products name, the company is called ALPHABET!
I don't see them calling Apple, Apple Macintosh....
I would also question why these companies including Mac Rumors are insistant on calling them Google still? Google is a products name, the company is called ALPHABET!
I don't see them calling Apple, Apple Macintosh....
The problem isn't that Apple is no longer an innovative company, it's that Apple seems out of touch with what it is that brought people to Apple in the first place, and try to force our focus on their focus, which often doesn't align. A good example would be Apple's push towards everyone using an iPad and do away with a computer altogether, when in reality many people don't want to, so the Mac takes a backseat to the iPad and Apple Watch.
Millions and millions of users all data mined to hell and targeted with advertising, and its baked into iOS by Apple. Remember that the next time someone says Apple doesn't sell your data, it doesn't but it certainly fully supports those who do.
Why would Toyota be worth much? They're just one of many many auto brands. There's nothing particularly unique about them.
Facebook is the social network. If you want to find someone online, your best chance is normally to check Facebook.
Facebook has over 1.7B monthly users. Currently, 3.3B people have access to the internet. Just over half of all people who can be on Facebook, are on Facebook.
The most populated countries on Earth are China (1.4B), India (1.3B) and the US (0.3B). If Facebook was its own country, its population would be more than that of China + the US combined.
Waiting for the "Apple is doomed" comments
Behold... our MacRumors Doom Analyst. As in most threads, their prognostications about others claiming Apple is doomed actually outnumber "doomed" post. You guys are giving Ming-Chi Kuo a run for analyst of the year.
/Ming-Chi Kuo reads thread
/gets nervous
/quickly issues mega analysis encompassing quad-cameras, osmosis charging, and a useful Siri
/calms
/smokes cigarette while polishing last year's analyst of the year trophy.
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Yeahhhhhh. No.
Just because your mac does what you want it to do and you have no idea of what's going on inside it, snarky remarks aren't actually going to change the fact that Apple is taking a piss on its customers.
No one is asking for an iPad that can fly, but if you wanna get technical, offering a spinner (as opposed to an SSD) in a $1.200 computer is pretty insulting. I think that is what people here refere to.
But I'm guessing this compares to a hoverboard Macbook to you, doesn't it?
Offering. Not jamming it down your throat. If you choose to buy an iMac with a spinning disc, that's on you. It may be slower but it has higher capacity too.
BTW iPads fly just fine.
Just because a company is the victim of its own profits doesn't mean that the company is doomed. It's a well known fact that Apple's profit margins are still way more than its competitors. Let's just hope that they don't mess around with their new iPhones and Macs.
That's pretty good going but I have around 5-7 cans a day. Yep. I know. It's bad but hey, I'm taking the risk, right?
I'm pretty sure I'd have withdrawal symptoms if I stopped drinking Coke for a while!!
Just don't buy the spinning drive one then, I've owned nothing but SSD's since 2008 when you were still using optical drives (that I ripped out of my Macbook and replaced with another SSD) so yeah i'm quite happy with the options available at the minute, the 12" Macbook and the 27" Retina iMac are the best two Apple Macs i've ever owned in a long long line of them.
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I've got a retina screen on my Macbook Pro, my Macbook and my 27" iMac thanks, works just fine. And i'd love for you to find a computer with a faster PCI-E flash than my iMac its topping out at nearly 2000MB/s read and write - which is a ridiculous speed no one can really exploit to any usable advantage (hell my rMBP does 1000+ and its hard to tell the difference between it at the iMac)
The only thing missing is Thunderbolt 3, which will obviously be on the Macbook Pro refresh at WWDC. Its not exactly an option i've missed on my rMBP in the 12 months of use i'll have got out of it before I upgrade to the new one this year - and considering most people on this forum have moaned about Thunderbolt since its inception (too expensive, no need for it, not enough devices to connect to etc) I currently max out all the Thunderbolt 2 ports on my iMac and use it on a daily basis on my Macbook Pro in work - oh and i'm using the TB1 port on my Mac mini too.
Yes, of course. Like I said put blinders on to what other companies are doing, keep that low bar, never demand the best for your top dollars and you'll be forever happy and satisfied that you, in fact, have the very best possible.
There have been times when MBP was unquestionably the best laptop around. This isn't one of those times. It's tired and not worth the $2500K Apple ask.
Today, Googles market cap overtook Apple once again. Apples stock price just keeps going lower.
http://9to5mac.com/2016/05/12/googl-aapl-market-cap/?pushup=1
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http://9to5mac.com/2016/05/12/googl-aapl-market-cap/?pushup=1
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And they get a huge amount of their revenue from ads. I love blocking ads. I block ads in everything on my phone from apps to browsers.
Maybe your ridiculous SSD speed could help me to solve random long time freeze Mac OS X issue, since computer can finish works much faster.
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[doublepost=1463060215][/doublepost]Might be their tax avoidance mechanism.
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That second one, i'd agree on
America has not slowed down on it's soft drink comsumption from what I can tell.
A few weeks ago at King Soopers, they had offered four 12 packs for $10. The entire soft drink aisle was empty. There were just the lesser know flavors like Ginger Ale and Dr. Pepper. No Coke, no Pepsi, No Dew. Most of the flavors were gone.
Is Coca Cola similarly "out of touch with what it is that bought people to" them, because they sell bottled water and orange juice as well as their iconic beverage? Different strokes for different folks! All those Coca Cola products are beverages, just like Apple's product line is still focused on computing devices. They may not be the computing devices you prefer, but people buy a whole lot of them. Most Apple customers have come to the company via iPod, iPhone, and iPad, not Mac. A fair number of them have subsequently purchased Macs as well - Mac unit sales today are something like four times what they were on the day iPhone was introduced. Is iOS bad for Mac? I think not!
There's a good chance that the person who reported his pivot from Coke to water is still consuming a Coca Cola product. It's called customer retention - if customer's tastes or needs change, adapt! If there are potential customers out there who do not buy your product, offer them a product they will buy.
Meantime, the sales of traditional PCs keep declining. You seriously think that if Apple focused on Mac that they'd be able to magically reverse that trend? Are you still hoping that, someday, 90% of the world's PCs will be Macs; that eventually, the world will see the light and ditch all those mobile computing devices? The plain fact of the matter is, a PC is more than many computer users need. iPhones and iPads are more "personal" than PCs - a family with one or two PCs is likely to have two or three times as many mobile devices. Companies that deploy PCs to the office staff are deploying iPhones and iPads to everyone who doesn't have a desk.
Does Apple not push Macs any more? Here's a new term for you, "Product placement." The vast majority of computers you see on TV and in the movies are Macs. That's not an accident - it's not Hollywood voluntarily supporting its favorite brand. It's Apple paying to associate its products with the public's idols.
All these "Apple is abandoning its roots" posts smack of team loyalties; as if Macs are the Boston Red Sox and iPads are those damn Yankees. Wrong! You might say iPhone is the infield, Mac is the outfield, iPad is in the bullpen, services are in the dugout, R&D is the farm teams and scouts, and Tim Cook is the GM. You may wish your favorite slugger was still batting clean-up, but if he's been with the club 10 years chances are he's been moved from center field to first base, and is batting around 5th or 6th in the order - not enough speed to scratch out singles at the top of the order, but still capable of contributing to an extended rally.
Oh yes. Thank you for that amazing insight.
Oh, wait, I'm not made of money and, even if I did, I have some sense to acknowledge that what Apple charges extra for an SSD is a complete rip off.
That is what I, and other people, complain about.
If a company is going to charge so much money for a product, at least have the decency to put updated and decent hardware inside it. A 5400rpm disk is outdated technology, thus, it does not belong inside what claims to be state of the art computers.
I'm going to make it simpler.
Say Porsche (the carmaker) starts offering a coal powered car as a base model for the same price it used to offer petrol/diesel engines. And they still have petrol/diesel engines, but they cost a premium.
What I'm arguing is that in this day an age, for a car company to offer a coal car is just shameful.
And what you are saying is: "what's your problem? just pay extra for the petrol car..."
Do you get what I mean?
I do, but I don't agree.
Regardless of the diabolical speed disk drive the base 27" iMac is still value for money in my eyes, the 5k monitor and design alone is worth it. But I mean, if price is a major concern for you that Apple products full stop are not for you - though its funny the retina iMac is the subject of this claim because its probably the best value system Apple make when you try and cost up building a system with the 5k monitors available on the market (which aren't even as good) - if it was a Mac Pro argument and you were explaining how you could build the same spec in a similar case then you'd have a better point.
Its a $1-2k confuser, not a McMansion.
Buy a used Mac-Mini. Get a really nice commodity display.
https://www.powermax.com/productcategory/used-macs-intel-mac-mini
This is an argument over the $100 iMac upgrade to a SSD!!
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