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cgWerks said:

The problem with all the statistics and such, is that I don't get their relevance (outside beancounter type thinking). As the analogy I've used before goes... Ford doesn't say, "Well look here, pickup trucks outsell cars... I guess we'll just put all our eggs in that basket and slow down car development... and heck, that GT40 doesn't make any profit at all, cut that program!"

I mean, what business with any amount of sense thinks like this? Sure, sometimes you have to cut product lines under certain circumstances, and profitability is a concern - in the big picture!.

I see ZERO reason for a company of Apple's scale, success, and profitability to go, 'hey Phones outsell all our other products by a wide margin... so let's just slowly shut down the Mac project and put all our eggs in smart-phones.'

The only other explanation I see for what happened, is that they literally had to shift so many resources to iOS/phones/tablets, that they took them from the Mac (and from what I heard, this is indeed what happened early on), and then finally someone woke up and rather recently, started to replace those resources.

slurpy said:

dysamoria said:

This is not a surprise, since their software is atrophying. I mean, with the way they gutted iWork, what's the use in having a mac if you're just going to put a crippled MS Office installation on it? Apple have de-professionalized every product they have. They're addicted to Wall Street BS and repeat iPhone sales. They have no vision, no leadership that isn't just more tonerhead mindlessness, no sense of useability (slowly killing every bit of usability that drove them up to 2013)... all the compelling excellence that Apple used to be known for has been ditched, replaced with ugly flat, minimalism, bugs that never get fixed, and missing functionality. iPhone was both a critical success for Apple and the lure to follow mindless cart-before-horse business practices that are killing the mac, Mac OS, and every piece of software Apple still has left.

Your post is 100% sensationalist trash, and from a quick peruse of your post history, so is everything you ever post. All your posts are completely negative, hyper-vitriolic rants against Apple, cementing the fact that you're nothing but a troll, without a shred of goodwill or objectivity.

Apple products are today more useful, usable, robust, well-liked, and more successful than anytime in Apple's history.

Apple's vision is clear, consistent, and deep, unlike their competitors that seem to "reset" their vision every product launch. All that garbage in your post is nothing but your own internal delusions, and desperately trying to fit "evidence" into your toxic and dishonest narrative.

All this, ignoring the fact that your powers of deduction are pretty horrid. You honestly believe this has ANYTHING to do with "software"? Comparing everything vs Macs is the same comparing all Android shipments against iPhones. A useless comparison because Apple only competes in the high end segment of the market, and not with $150-$600 garbage laptops and computers (that most of these numbers make up) and $50-$200 "smartphones".

gatorguy said:

EsquireCats said:

There is no room for bulky watches in the fitness market - it's ignorant to how people conduct fitness activities. During running a bulky watch is utter f-kery, especially for runners with smaller frames (which is optimal for running). On the opposing side of use such as weight training they get in the way of cables, numerous machines and prevent the use of wrist straps. To date Garmin's best fitness products are small and light, but even those have problems with HR measurement. (I've owned a fair few of them.)

The other issue is that wrist-worn heart rate sensors perform poorly for fluctuating heart rates - without coincidence it's these same exercises where it's most useful to know heart rate. It's far less common to require heart rate for stable heart rate exercises, because it's trivial to measure it when it's not changing. (P.S. Garmin's chest straps are outdated garbage with frequent pairing issues.)

These devices are not even good for those with health issues. Here a rapidly changing heart rate can signal a medical emergency, yet a rapidly changing HR merely confuses these devices, they're truly built for stable heart rates and everything else simply doesn't work.

As the author notes, for fitness you're best going off with a small light device and a chest strap. My recommendation is the aluminium apple watch and the bluetooth wahoo chest HR monitor, they work flawlessly together. (And the Apple Watch has the most accurate heart rate sensor for the wrist regardless.)

You should peruse reviews at https://www.dcrainmaker.com/
You won't find more thorough testing, nor better advice for anyone considering a fitness tracker than he offers. 

wood1208 said:

This Macbook pro is certainly awesome laptop. if you need touch than use Ipad Pro(and keyboard to make it look like surface). My son has Wondows touch screen laptop and he never uses touch. Says kind of cumbersome. People complain about missing ports but from older Macbook models, thunderbolt 2 and USB 2/3 ports replaced by more advanced USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 combined. Plenty provided on new macbook pro. Same USB-C port is used for charging so Megasafe port is not needed. Missing Ethernet port is hardly used in Wifi everywhere world. Missing SD memory card slot, yes issue for photographers but in the world of wireless on phones and pro cameras Wifi upload ability to MBP and cloud, who needs it ? 3.5mm headphone is still their but BT and wireless earpods, who needs it ?. Am I missing anything ?