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Apple's Phil Schiller: 'We Don't Design for Price, We Design for the Experience'
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It's part of the touch bar.
... Which I guess it could render the entire system incapable of booting if it dies like the fake home button on iPhone 7
There's no way this would happen without total economic collapse and civil war considering that the computer market and cell phone market would be dead without the middle class. If it's haves and have nots the computer market would collapse on itself since it's dependant on upgrades
That's a really good article. Thank you for posting this.
After reading the article, the parallels are striking. It's easy to see why Satya Nadella has changed so much about Microsoft; he is an innovator with a passion for building new things. This is the kind of CEO that Apple needs.[doublepost=1477779505][/doublepost]
There is a lot more to running a successful company than profits. Long term viability is the real key. What Apple is doing is destroying their future for short term gain by abusing their reputation and user base. People are catching on, and Apple's reputation is slowly being ruined. How long will it be before Apple reaches a critical tipping point, and is no longer viewed as a producer of premium products? What will happen when their tiny percentage of market share starts going elsewhere and the bubble bursts? Apple is setting themselves up for VERY rapid decline.
Personally, I am looking forward to the bubble bursting, not because I want to see Apple go out of business, but because when everything blows up in their face, they will be forced to get back to producing great products.
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And USB-C? Is that the same as on the Mini? Here I thought it was the 'Micro-B', which is rather delicate. I've broken one of those already. Somehow got it plugged in upside down into some cheap imported port on some cheap garbage thing.
It's unlikely you'll have ever seen a USB-C plug unless you've bought one specifically - it's a great connector, but it's still pretty rare in the wild. I have one on my new Samsung T3 HD.
Except this is not what Apple have done this time!!! Its not just the pricing that people are upset about, the machine itself is a POS, All the ports have been removed, USB-A is not a legacy port yet, not even close., a shithouse GPU in the high end models, Removed Magsafe WTF!!, DDR3 memory, Last years CPU tech, i could go on. You only need to read all the negativity on this site to see people have had enough.
Personally, and I'm not joking here, I wouldn't care if my iMac was six inches thick. I'm looking at the SCREEN when I'm using it, not how thick it is. I'd much prefer to have the 12 USB ports I have on my Windows machine, along with data drives, multiple SSDs, a Superdrive and a decent graphics card than have the thing as thin as possible.
USB-A was legacy the second USB-C became commercially available. Removing ports and simplifying like this has been Apple's routine since the mid '90's at least. With Thunderbolt 3, Magsafe becomes redundant. DDR3 because it's either full power DDR4 or Low-power DDR3 - this has already been explained. The CPU's used are the most advanced Intel has available to buy today - not 3-6 months from now.
Complaints like this have been de rigueur on this site since at least the release of the original iPod. Go ahead and go read the archived threads from that release. The only thing that has changed is the volume of complaints because there are so many more Apple users today.
Yeah... that's complete nonsense. Were cassettes "legacy" the minute CDs became available? No, it took nearly 15 years.
What's "legacy" or not is based on usage. Currently, 99% of people use USB-A ports for 99% of things. That's not legacy.
Which doesn't apply to USB-A in 99% of cases... for the vast bulk of uses, it hasn't been "superseded" because it adds literally nothing to the function of the bulk of hardware, because they need neither more power nor greater data transfer.
I suggest you read the definition again. That you want it to mean something else doesn't make it so.
I think you should do the rereading. How does USB-C "supercede" USB-A for a keyboard?
It doesn't. It also, for the moment, requires a dongle. It's definitionally a downgrade. In 95% of USB 2016 use-cases.
"Sometimes that means we end up at the higher end of the range, but not on purpose, just because that's what it costs."
Yes, as everyone can see. Check the price of 2TB SSD's and compare it to Apple's +$1200. Feel free to ignore the "saved" cost of the original 512GB one and you can still see how right they are.
What comes to the experience, the keyboard.... X(*)
Yes, as everyone can see. Check the price of 2TB SSD's and compare it to Apple's +$1200. Feel free to ignore the "saved" cost of the original 512GB one and you can still see how right they are.
What comes to the experience, the keyboard.... X(*)
I understand Apple have always removed ports early, but USB3 is mainstream, its used in 99 Percent of devices. This is not like Apple removing Firewire. You will need an adapter to connect almost any current device including the new iPhone 7, its laughable. Why are Dell and HP able to use DDR4? I understand Koby lake is still a little while off in the high power CPU's needed for the Pro but in this case the this machine should have been released at least 6 months ago!
Maybe get a dock? However that's in addition to an already expensive MBP. Yeah dongles are a pain. Sometimes you can leave them on the device cable, but not always.
That or you can buy a new cable for example I bought a USB-C to USB Micro B for my external hard drive it was 6$ with Prime.
This is pretty much happening, albeit very slowly. Once silicon valley perfects the singularity expect the economic unrest to pick up dramatically.
I get the feeling Apple knew they would get blowback over the prices. At the event, when showing the standard Macbook and the Macbook Pro's side by side Phil only mentioned the Macbook line "starts at $1299 and up to $2399". Nothing on the slides about pricing at all and that was the only time prices were mentioned.
The Touchbar is an embarrassment. Years of ignoring and angering creative professionals has led to THIS... an emoji-selecting bar. Jesus!
