It does in terms of product permeation. it takes time for people to finally get their hands on the necessary technology. Blu-ray is undoubtedly going to be a bigger investment since end users need an HDTV to benefit from Blu-ray. but VHS was on the market for at least 30 years before DVDs became prevalent, and DVDs have been prevalent for the past 17 years itself.
Have you ever tried downloading and streaming a 1080p, close to 25GB movie over that connection? Not just Netflix which adjusts quality on the fly.
Not a good response to the statement. People archive, and people archive to physical media. Not just movies, but personal and professional data.
Apple only dictates what's done for Apple. The death of physical media will come only when no one makes them anymore.
Jobs stated that he didn't implement Blu-ray because it was a "bag of hurt" although, (based on your statement, the mainstream costumer/consumer, that still buys more PCs than Macs), every other vendor gives it to their customers as an option.
The removal of the ODD on half the lineup was a trend that was begun by the end users love of netbooks and tablets, which didn't have ODDs. The MBA wasn't even the first machine to remove the ODD and be razor thin.
Now, from a guy that hasn't owned a Blu-ray disc and never will, I agree that the day will come. But it won't come in the ridiculous time frame of 2-3 years. That is, Blu-ray will still be used by many, and ODDs will still be sold. Just because Apple doesn't put it into 2 out of 5 systems doesn't mean that the entire medium is dead.
no it doesnt, just think about it, ships used sails for thousands of years, yet it needed only a couple of hundred years for them to use oil instead of coal, different times, different technologies, different people; lets say 1975 people could start using vhs, dvd was introduced 1996, people started to use it a couple years later (so 20+ years between) and then came out the bluray 2006 (so 10 years between) get the difference now? if you use simple math like you do, you could say that the next technology will come out in 5 years so 2011 (flash) but i dont think thats the case.
yes i have, do the math how long it takes... but again we're talking about average consumer, 80% average personal computer users dont even know what hd is, let alone the difference between 720p and 1080p, they just want to watch a movie... so a buyer (average consumer) that buys macbook air needs to stream 1080p content and then archive it for future editing?
archiving. do they? and how do you know that? professionals do. enthusiast do, maybe. but average consumer needs to archive 50gb of data per disc daily/monthly? what do they archive? hd videos for future editing? - not average consumer, 3d modeling - not average consumer. archiving at best - photos, videos, but why should you when you have your pc and everything on it. again, the average consumer, show me one who needs more than 250 gb space, guess what, thats exactly the space macbook air comes with.
apple dictates the whole industry. put yourself in ,for example, hp shoes, apple has growth, everybody else doesnt, what do you do? copy apple. what does apple do with its most affordable and high growth computers (macbook air, mac mini) - ditches optical drives, what do you do?
it isnt dead, but it has no future like dvd had in his days because there are better, more easier, practical, more failure proof methods available
look on the macbook pro forum, theres a pool saying that 80+% of users have used their odd 5 or less times, apple knows this for years...
there are certain things in this world that are incredibly transparent, easy to grasp, so-called no-brainers, yet some people just refuse to accept them and are deliberately in denial. you strike me as a smart fellow, how is it possible that you cannot grasp this concept? probably because of the lack of info and facts, and a bit of analytical thinking
there is a video of interview with steve jobs (D8) on youtube. he talks about technological waves. every technology has its spring, summer, fall and winter, and if a certain company wants to be successful it needs to catch and use those technologies in theirs spring (it was in a context of flash) and thats exactly what apple does.
why didnt they implement blu ray. steve jobs said its a bag of hurt. that means they had to pay the price if they wanted to use it. and why would they pay the price if they thought that technology would be obsolete in near future, am i wrong? so they chose not to use it, and use something else (thumb drives, icloud, ssd) which for the average consumer all make more sense and are more practical and thats exactly what apple is doing, and thats exactly what rest of the industry will be doing
i have never said that there wont be computers without optical disc drives, but they wont be mainstream, and blu ray will never be mainstream.
in my country, one empty blu ray disk cost 25 bucks, just like a monthly flat internet speed.