pscooter63

Running a full version of Windows is not exactly something to gloat over.

Baldwyn said:

I guess

I'll hand it to the AI community, there are some trolls here who provoke serious thought, or even humor even as they do what they do.  And in their own way, make the community better, and richer.

This post, on the other hand, is up there with picking your nose and staring in wonderment at what you find.  In public.  It adds NOTHING.

Dislike, my ass.  Flagged.

Then there are app developers that are the opposite of greedy... who put a top-quality app out there and continue to improve it, for YEARS, without charging their customer base anything after the initial purchase.  ForScore does this, but I honestly don’t see how they stay in business.  (I PayPal them every couple of years, in appreciation.)

A dedicated TVOS app would be a nice tip of the hat - I don’t necessarily want to be tethered to AirPlay.

beowulfschmidt said:

It's in the drawer under the TV with no battery in it

Right... no battery in it... 

Also, the Harmony remote/app sucks worse than the real remote, as far as ATV is concerned.  I have three of those myself.  (When is Logitech going to give up Silverlight for the programming app?!)

Regarding ports and connectors...

I'm saddled with a cheap Lenovo Win machine at work, it has all those ports SpamSandy is complaining about. 

But you know what, I also have a breakout box that replicates all that, but connects via a single USB-C cable.  So at the end of the day, instead of unplugging SEVEN cables to take my laptop home, I just unplug ONE.

If all those legacy connections are so mission critical, chances are you're not leveraging the primary use case for a laptop anyway (portability).

The Touch Bar on my ‘19 NBP still gets love from me - though I loved it more when you could still, say, drag the volume tool continuously, as opposed to the incremental taps it was eventually dumbed-down to.  I do like that system dialog responses are still available there.  

That specification table… did anyone bother to proof the format/structure once it was published?

mattinoz said:

Or it is not a device for average consumers. 

Exactly like the laptop was not an average consumer device when it was $3500, or even $2500 of the first “mainstream” models. 

Um… remember the GRiD Compass, from 1982?  One of those would have set you back over $8000.
Accounting for inflation, that’s equivalent to $27,000 today.

I’m with Macgui on this.  I’ve had many credit cards over my lifetime, but my Apple card is the easiest to manage ever.
I’ve lodged two disputes, one major and one relatively trivial, and both were handled expeditiously and with aplomb.  (Neither had anything to do with fraudulent charges, in fact I’ve never seen one of those.)