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Apple Reseller B&H Says BeatsX Earphones Delayed At Least 2-3 Months
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Kinda like yelling at the kids while the house is on fire "Stop freaking out and finish your dinner!"... Apple is a premium company and should be the top of the industry in execution... between all the mis-steps one has to re-evaluate the premium... if I want poor execution I can go Lenovo (which actually may be better based on the Miix 700 I bought my GF after losing faith in Apple and the 100% price premium... and having an inferior product).
More like your kid scored 95% in a test, but all the parent can fixate on is the 5% he missed. And instead of at least rewarding him for a job well done, he is getting sent to his room without dinner to mug even harder.
Same here. Apple has delivered stellar results and released several new products and is now managing 4 different operating platforms, but everyone just chooses to gloss over that fact and instead obsess overwhelmingly over missed deadlines for 2 headphone models.
Apple as so easily parodied nowadays, they've only got themselves to blame.
I was preparing to buy the iPhone7, but skipped it because I want a headphone jack. I don't want a dongle - phone is in my pocket half the time and having a plug would catch on things. I also want to charge and use 3.5mm jack at same time - don't believe there are any MFI dongles that have both 3.5mm + power pass through.
All to fulfill some guys thin fetish.
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I'm confused, can some Apple fanboy please help me out, I think they might just have Mac and PC mixed up in those videos
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Have a watch of the 3 adverts a few posts up POST #76 and tell me which one is the Mac and which one is the PC at this point.
Mac boasts of battery life, mag safe, making life easier...
I think you'd notice if they fall out no? Similarly to how you notice if a wired earpod falls out of your ear.
Secondly, there is a charging case which you can put the pods in when not in use. You may argue you may lose the pod, but you could also lose your iphone, your wallet, your keys etc.
So the iPhone 7 is Bluetooth 4.2 and the newly released MacBook Pro's are also 4.2.
Shrewd.
Oh right, flagship headphones. I forgot that was a thing. I remember all those times I walk in to Best Buy and say "Excuse me, where do you keep your flagship headphones?". Or when I go to Google's or Samsung's online store and I sort their headphones from flagship to non-flagship.
I'm not sure how I forgot about that. About how when a company makes an accessory, they sell a flagship version of that accessory and a non-flagship version. Like iPhone cases. The leather iPhone case is the flagship case and the rubber one is the pleb version. And Apple sells a bluetooth magic keyboard which is their flagship keyboard. But their wired keyboards are the non-flagship version of the keyboard.
Oh yeah, I remember now.
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I was preparing to buy the iPhone7, but skipped it because I want a headphone jack. I don't want a dongle - phone is in my pocket half the time and having a plug would catch on things. I also want to charge and use 3.5mm jack at same time - don't believe there are any MFI dongles that have both 3.5mm + power pass through.
All to fulfill some guys thin fetish.
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I'm confused, can some Apple fanboy please help me out, I think they might just have Mac and PC mixed up in those videos
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Have a watch of the 3 adverts a few posts up POST #76 and tell me which one is the Mac and which one is the PC at this point.
Mac boasts of battery life, mag safe, making life easier...
Hey look everybody, this guy is confused
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Wow, so anyone who doesn't agree with you or what Apple is doing is a whiner, but you are not?
I'm sick of all the whiners that stick up for Apple and all their crap.
How about you start with telling me how my experience has improved on each of the following points:
- Battery is glued in and after 5 years cannot be replaced. If it wasn't glued in it would be easy to get a third party battery to replace it.
- The SSD in the Apple laptop is soldered in. I do not have the choice to remove it to control the data at the end of its life, nor can I increase the storage if my needs change.
- Repair costs are massive due to the number of expensive components soldered on to the motherboard. (RAM, SSD, WIFI,...)
- I cannot replace the ram with more if my needs change.
- Apple could have given me 3 USB-C and 1 USB-A
- How is removing ports a good experience?
- What is the point of a 1 button mouse?
- Apple removed the headphone jack and I cannot find any MFI certified dongles that allow 3.5mm + charging at same time.
- Apple removed a feature from iMovie that allowed me to delete portions of a clip to save disk space.
- Apple retired Aperture and had no replacement for it, only a replacement for iPhoto.
Why not look a little closer at Apple, they have brought it all on themselves.
Wow, so anyone who doesn't agree with you or what Apple is doing is a whiner, but you are not?
I'm sick of all the whiners that stick up for Apple and all their crap.
How about you start with telling me how my experience has improved on each of the following points:
- Battery is glued in and after 5 years cannot be replaced. If it wasn't glued in it would be easy to get a third party battery to replace it.
- The SSD in the Apple laptop is soldered in. I do not have the choice to remove it to control the data at the end of its life, nor can I increase the storage if my needs change.
- Repair costs are massive due to the number of expensive components soldered on to the motherboard. (RAM, SSD, WIFI,...)
- I cannot replace the ram with more if my needs change.
- Apple could have given me 3 USB-C and 1 USB-A
- How is removing ports a good experience?
- What is the point of a 1 button mouse?
- Apple removed the headphone jack and I cannot find any MFI certified dongles that allow 3.5mm + charging at same time.
- Apple removed a feature from iMovie that allowed me to delete portions of a clip to save disk space.
- Apple retired Aperture and had no replacement for it, only a replacement for iPhoto.
Why not look a little closer at Apple, they have brought it all on themselves.
Yeah, the new TB MBP is getting rave reviews... What planet do some of you live on? The new TV app another success, the latest iPhone is simply just good enough, the latest Timecapsule looks promising, the new displays are great.... oops. At least the latest price points are receiving universal praise. Apple watch sales are off the charts so there is something going right.
You should look at other threads people are frustrated and it is more widespread than headphones. If anything it has been fixation on dongles.
Sadly these headphones are getting so much attention because they are about the only interesting thing Apple has done lately. I think why so many people are reacting to this is because headphones are something that the vast majority of us use daily.
I also think part of it is that a pair of Airpods seems to most of us as something that should be a rather trivial task for engineers of the caliber Apple has. Whether that is true or not doesn't matter but it seems to be the common perception.
Courageous enough to remove a ubiquitous port like the 3.5MM jack, but not courageous enough to have flagship accessories ready to support the change at launch.
Courageously stupid I guess ... hopefully whoever made the decision will be looking for a job in the new year.
More like this kid scored 95% in a test from years ago and now still wants credit for that to make up for the one he just failed.
"Stellar results" ? I don't even know where to start with so much blindness. So I won't.
Let's begin.
Most people won't care. 5 years is about time to upgrade your laptop anyways, and people don't miss what they don't need.
Then settle on a quality you are comfortable with upfront. Or use external storage. Again, most consumers are not going to be cracking open their laptops to tinker with the hardware inside, and so it's a non-issue for the majority of users.
That's what AppleCare is for.
If you are going to replace the ram, storage, battery, the works, may as well get a new laptop while you are at it.
Stuff like soldering parts on is likely done to save on space, in a bid to make the laptop thinner and (possibly lighter). Apple is increasingly marketing the MacBook Pro at the general consumer, who for most part are not going to bother cracking open their computers to upgrade the internals. They will likely just run it into the ground, then shop for a new computer.
Yes, I acknowledge that there exists a group of more tech-savvy users who wish to be able to modify their own computers, but they are more the exception than the norm. Apple has clearly made a decision to favour the needs of the many over the needs of the few.
They could, but it would have defeated the whole point - which is to push users towards USB C and help spur adoption.
I wrote a very long post in defence of this some time back, and don't wish to regurgitate the same points again. In a nutshell, you give up 5 different, single-purpose ports in exchange for 4 multi-purpose ports which can be used for anything.
For example, I can now charge my laptop by plugging the cable in to the right or left side. I can dock everyone to a monitor or hub and connect everything to my laptop using just one cable.
It can make for a better experience, but you must want it. I am not saying the transition will be a smooth or painless one, but that it will be worth it in the end.
What's wrong with it? You can still right click with and do everything you could with a normal, 2-button mouse.
The point is that you don't (charge and listen at the same time). And the one dongle on kickstarter that promises to do this is very likely a scam (it's way too cheap for what it promises to do).
No comments on that either. Can't you do something like that using QuickTime?
No comments on that, as I am not familiar with aperture and its functions.
Apple isn't perfect, but it's not run by idiots either, and it's counterintuitive to paint the people who run Apple as such.
There's constructive criticism, and there's the kind of rancid comments you get here.
All in all, I feel Apple is doing a very good job despite its numerous apparent missteps. By all means, criticise Apple when it's deserved. But also give Apple credit where it's due. And I find the latter sorely lacking here.
Its kind of sad that all we're hearing lately is bad news or excuses coming from 1 Infinite Loop these days (or rumors of bad news). We didn't get that much new hardware this year from apple, but what was announced is either problematic in the case of the MBP, or delayed.
Kinda makes the Apple maps issue Scott Forstall lost his job over seem petty. All because he didn't want to sign an apology. Is Tim et al gonna apologize to the once loyal user base ?
I was with him on the privacy debate, but now it is time for the board to hit shuffle play on upper management.
Then let me start.
https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2016/12/6/milking-the-iphone
What would you call that if not stellar?
That was a power play, Cook wanted him gone, and given his reputation for detail, I miss his oversight (even though Maps was a disaster).
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He's only manaaged what Jobs created, and what he has rolled out or relased on his own has been problematic. He's no innovator, unless you consider copying Microsoft and adding a stylus to an iPad is innovation
Apple has done very well under Cook, but he's only kept the ship running, we need to see some leadership from him, not the same old tired, lets make it thinner mantra
The iPhone 8 sounds too much like a dream. Most of the features rumored have been rumored year after year about the "next" iPhone. I find it really hard to believe that Apple will break the "S" cycle.
The 7 really didn't have much features, and with falling sales, its everyone's expectation that the next phone will be a major update. I think like Intel, they dropped the tick-tock schedule so the 8 (if its called that), will be a major update.