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What to Expect at Apple's 'Hello Again' Mac Event

malexandria said:
Typical response from an obvious white male - who immediately assumes that all the white men on stage are instantly and inherently there based on their own merit.

I'm sure if a black person was on stage you'd assume they are only there because of diversity. So maybe you should look at yourself in the mirror and wonder why my benign comment offended YOU.

Apple does have a few minority and female executives (who run their marketing and retail divisions). Hell, they could at least trot out Dre to talk about Beats. Yet, YET they very rarely appear at these briefings. Excuse me for wanting to see diversity on the stage and in that audience. Yeah, I'm so unreasonable.
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Yeah, and I'm pretty unreasonable to think that in billion dollar businesses people are in their positions because of actual ability.

I see you managed to totally avoid the question of why almost everyone in the NBA is black. Obviously they are not their on their own merit. It's some secret BLM movement holding the white man down. /s

I'm guessing that your assumption that I am "obviously a white male" means that you are a person of color and/or female. I think it's just a likely that you are so caught up in your perception that the world in out to get you that you can't imagine that most people are actually where they are because they earned it. I'm not saying discrimination doesn't happen, but it certainly isn't the explanation every time a minority isn't selected for something.

And you are totally wrong about how I perceive race. If I saw someone of color presenting at Apple or a Woman, my first assumption would be that they are there because they earned it. In a well run business you don't promote people on irrelevant criteria, nor do you hold them back because of it.

And why "trot" Dre out to talk about beats? Because he is black? Again you are making EVERYTHING about race, and I'm sorry, but making the decision about who presents should have nothing whatsoever to do with someone's race. If it does, then that is the very definition of racism.
 
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gnipgnop said:
Actually, what's happened is that the iMacs and MBPs are a LOT more powerful than they used to be. 5-10 years ago, you needed a Mac Pro if you wanted to do pro level commercial art, design/layout, photo editing, music editing, or video editing...but not anymore. iMacs and laptops easily handle those types of uses now, so that's eroded a large segment of users for the product. That's the real reason Apple isn't in a hurry to update the Mac Pro.

A lot of the people complaining about it probably have no idea what software wouldn't be actually be usable on the most recent iMacs and MBPs.
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This is a very good point. I don't use my Macs professionally, but I can see how machines today are quite powerful compared to 5-10 years ago.

Still, the issue is that Apple is making disposable boxes. I just don't like that. It's wasteful as all hell. And as far from green as you could be.

There is no reason whatsoever (other than forced new purchases) to not make their machines upgradeable like they used to.

It smacks of pure greed.

At the very least, they should keep the Pro line as an upgradeable alternative to the consumer-level, ultrabook/ultra thin i-line. I remember when you could take the back off the iMac and have easy access to replace components. It was elegant and well-though out. Apple used to be proud of the insides of their devices. Now they don't want us to look at it and glue things down. Garbage (decision to do so).

Apple used to make the best machines on the planet. This "new-Apple" simply doesn't, when you compare the two.
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hwojtek said:
I think we have just been shown the specs of the screen+GPU unit during the Microsoft event:http://www.theverge.com/circuitbrea...omputer-announced-features-price-release-date
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Damn it.

That is exactly what I said the iMac should be a few posts back.

Looks awesome.

My daughter is an artist-in-the-making. If she sees this, Apple will lose a (potential) customer. She already is begging me for a Windows box (due to software), but this could replace my 27 in iMac as the family home computer (I use my cMBP17 and 15 as my primary machines).

Damn it, Apple. DAMN IT. Get your head out of your iOS!!!
 
why remove the SD-CARD and HDMI slot!!!!!! this is the flagship laptop and they are gimping it. MBP are desktop replacements what are they thinking!!
 
phas3 said:
why remove the SD-CARD and HDMI slot!!!!!! this is the flagship laptop and they are gimping it. MBP are desktop replacements what are they thinking!!
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Hopefully that rumor is false, I agree the SD card is something I absolutely need.
 
If the rumors are true, Apple has jumped the shark. Nothing could take the spotlight off of Apple losing touch with their customer base. Maybe a scandal like Cook having an affair with Thiel.
 
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doelcm82 said:
Looking back, we know that it was time for the floppy disk to go. The headphone jack is still a raw sore. We'll need a few years before we can look back and realize that the headphone jack was ready to go, too.
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Quite a few years. Because it WASN'T.
 
Kastellen said:
Quite a few years. Because it WASN'T.
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I don't think he's aware the 3.5 mm jack has been around since the early 50s and audio jacks have been around since the late 1800s and haven't changed much. It's because they work all the time. I hardly think a 3.5 mm plug connected to a DAC chip makes a huge deal in terms of weight or thickness. It does, however, make a difference if you want to further waterproof your product.
 
Basically: "We have no idea and will mention every pie-in-the-sky brainstorm WE have (not Apple)."
You are an idiot (SORRY...not politically correct) and you prove it with some sort of crappy "Englush".
 
Zenithal said:
I don't think he's aware the 3.5 mm jack has been around since the early 50s and audio jacks have been around since the late 1800s and haven't changed much. It's because they work all the time. I hardly think a 3.5 mm plug connected to a DAC chip makes a huge deal in terms of weight or thickness. It does, however, make a difference if you want to further waterproof your product.
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But aren't there other models of phones with the same water resistance rating as the iPhone 7 that retained their headphone jack? I have to agree with the earlier poster who said that a major reason for removing the jack was that Jony Ive didn't like the look of it.
 
"Jony" (NOTE: NOT "JOHN") Ivy: "He" Didn't like the look of it: Well, la dee da... Sounds right. But every day I'm finding MORE AND MORE pains-in-the-ass not having the headphone jack!!! I'm trying to live with it (I got the iPhone 7+ for $13/mo from Verizon with trade in) BUT it's a BIG, BIG, VERY BIG MISTAKE. It will be a VERY, VERY, VERY long time before I get another new iPhone WITHOUT a headphone jack.
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Kastellen said:
But aren't there other models of phones with the same water resistance rating as the iPhone 7 that retained their headphone jack? I have to agree with the earlier poster who said that a major reason for removing the jack was that Jony Ive didn't like the look of it.
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[doublepost=1477572967][/doublepost]More Balloons!! We want more balloons COMING OUT on our message screens!!

n2arkitektur said:
Yeah. There will probably be no audio jack or USB ports of any kind. It's so courageous to strip functionality away from devices. Maybe they will give us bigger bezels, too. Such courage!
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[doublepost=1477573189][/doublepost]The 3.5mm (1/8"/mini phone jack) actually does not work all the time. It's prone to static / intermittent connection due to corrosion or oxidation. Rotating the inserted plug back and forth usually helps to alleviate this.

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Kastellen said:
But aren't there other models of phones with the same water resistance rating as the iPhone 7 that retained their headphone jack? I have to agree with the earlier poster who said that a major reason for removing the jack was that Jony Ive didn't like the look of it.
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Zenithal said:
I don't think he's aware the 3.5 mm jack has been around since the early 50s and audio jacks have been around since the late 1800s and haven't changed much. It's because they work all the time. I hardly think a 3.5 mm plug connected to a DAC chip makes a huge deal in terms of weight or thickness. It does, however, make a difference if you want to further waterproof your product.
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To al the people who visit the event : if Apple introduces MacBooks with flatter keys, let's all boo them. A good notebook needs a good keyboard.
 
Good luck with that! LOL. Apple stopped making good keyboards of any kind many years ago. BRING BACK MECHANICAL KEYS!!

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MvdM said:
To al the people who visit the event : if Apple introduces MacBooks with flatter keys, let's all boo them. A good notebook needs a good keyboard.
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