unlocked iPhones being sold in the US? why isnt that news? You've always been able to buy off-contract iphones but they were still bound to ATT (and i would assume by extension, verizon as well) ... does this mean you can pick one up and use it with tMobile without jailbreaking it?
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You can get voice service on an unlocked iPhone on T-Mobile USA's network, but not 3G data. You're still stuck with 2.5G/EDGE service because the iPhone's cellular chip (original iPhone, 3G, 3GS, iPhone 4) doesn't support the AWS band (which is what T-Mobile USA and Canada's WIND operators use).
However, an unlocked American iPhone 4 (GSM/UTMS model) would be a boon for people traveling abroad, as they could drop in a local carrier's prepaid SIM.
You can get voice service on an unlocked iPhone on T-Mobile USA's network, but not 3G data. You're still stuck with 2.5G/EDGE service because the iPhone's cellular chip (original iPhone, 3G, 3GS, iPhone 4) doesn't support the AWS band (which is what T-Mobile USA and Canada's WIND operators use).
However, an unlocked American iPhone 4 (GSM/UTMS model) would be a boon for people traveling abroad, as they could drop in a local carrier's prepaid SIM.
Yes, reading comprehension does go a long way. If you had correctly read what myself and several other posters have been saying, the main argument is specifically that dual boot is counterproductive. You mentioned dual boot and Bootcamp. No one is saying that iOS/iOS features won't be integrated into a full OS. I explained that the two will evolve together and become more like each other. That is not what a dual boot is for.
Dual boot is not the same as "marrying the two OSs".
Dual boot is not the same as "coexisting".
Dual boot is not the same as "combining the two".
In your quote of quotes you neglected to include your original stance on dual boot and only included things that I had been reiterating.
I don't disagree with the fact that many people might prefer the current MB. But the trends point in a different direction. Stronger body construction, portability are becoming more and more important. SSD is becoming more important. CDs are going out of style. iCloud will give us more off site storage. This is a big disappointment of mine. I was hoping I can just keep all my music, movies/videos, pictures, documents, books up there, but it does not seem to be the case at launch. But imagine if you could. Wouldn't 32GB be enough on site? Storing non-immediately needed stuff in the cloud is where we are heading.
Now consider who is running the company. Didn't Steve Jobs tell people based on less compelling reasons that you actually do not need something (like a CD, hard drive or a bigger screen).
32gb is at least 100 times less than I would need. If we took movie storage out I would need 30x that..
I have no desire to rent hard drive space by the year for more than I can buy it, not leave all of my personal items, art, confidential docs on a site that can be hacked. I'd rather take responsibility
That said. I know I'm in the minority, but I also think you underestimate how many photos and music people hang on to.
My mother for example exceeds your allotment in just photos. I can't see her keen on $50 a month to store.
Why not just fix the lighting, put up dark curtains or turn away from the back window instead of tolerating the glare?
Touchscreen, accelerometers and gyroscopes are not iOS features and thus don't require dual booting OSes. If Macs had those hardware sensors, OS X could very well use them properly.
And Macs have accelerometers in the form of the HDD head parking feature.
Anyway, Touchscreens don't work on laptop/desktop form factors, and I'm not about to shake my Mac around, as big as it is (Yo, let's play this game on the 27" iMac using the accelerometer and gyroscope!) so your points are pretty moot.
The fact you keep harping on about function and then suggesting the Macs lack input sensors is totally unrelated. Functions of a devices have nothing to do with its input features. These devices are all about running software to accomplish tasks. Tasks you can do with different input devices on different form factors. OS X already can do anything iOS does. There is no need to "marry" both to get the full functionality of iOS on OS X. I can make phone calls to landlines/cellphones, browse the web, play games, read e-mail and run about every app under the sun you can think of on OS X already, what more "iOS functionality" do you need really ?
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one can't dictate how it should be used... it's like saying "just avoid holding the iPhone in that way."
Seriously?! I'm not going to sit in the dark all the time I want to use my Mac. Nor will I rearrange my whole lounge.
And when I want to use my Mac out in the garden on a nice, sunny day, are you seriously suggesting I actually wait until the sun goes down?!
Sorry to be a bit sarcastic, but I think Apple should at least offer the option rather than customers having to alter various aspects of their lives to accomodate a highly reflective screen.
I've had both forms of Macbook Air and none of them are anywhere close to the reflection issues the Pro suffers from, partly due to the lack of glass.
What did you do in the days of CRT monitors ?
And with all my laptops, no matter matte or glossy, I could never use one reliably outside on a bright sunny day. The backlights just aren't powerful enough.
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An incorrect comparison, no? This is about light bouncing from different surfaces and not radio signals. Furthermore you don't usually setup TVs, projectors and screens in sunlight without some problems in the picture. You can't do that with a lot of matte computer monitors either, so actually there is a lot of dictating going on already. They are called guidelines.
Though I fully agree with johneaston about giving people an option which screen type to choose. Not to is just silly or a very lucrative way to cut costs.
Heh, heh.
That's what my company did when they designed the Apple display.
Put a big black wall behind the iMirrors and MirrorBook Pros so customers could see the screens. Magic.
If they could fit a reasonably powerful dedicated gpu for some light-mid-weight gaming, I might be all over the 13".
If they do start to filter out the new design changes (speculating the new materials...etc) it would be even harder to wait for the MBP refresh.
If they do start to filter out the new design changes (speculating the new materials...etc) it would be even harder to wait for the MBP refresh.
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There's only 3 LV processors in the current 2nd-generation line up of Core i5/7:
i5-2537M / 1.4 GHz dual-core (17 W)
i7-2617M / 1.5 GHz dual-core (17 W)
i7-2657M / 1.6 GHz dual-core (17 W)
(note: all 3 chips are Hyperthreading-enabled, they get 4 threads going for 2 physical cores)
They look like possible candidates for the MBA refresh, if anything the low-wattage/processing power ratio is fairly interesting.
What did you do in the days of CRT monitors ?
In the days of CRTs my computer stayed firmly rooted to my desk. It's only since the laptop that my computer has been... on my lap. I never once used a CRT monitor on the sofa, in the garden or at the beach so the reflection wasn't really an issue.