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?

macgui said:

The SE is dead. Long live the SE.

As a long-time SE owner (and 4S owner before that, an even smaller form factor), I grew impatient and went full-bore 11 Pro a little over a month ago.

The size/bulk delta barely moves the needle for me.  Both models fit equally well in my pant pockets.  I'm not in the habit of treating my phone roughly, so I got Apple's leather case for it (like my SE)... plenty of protection, just the right grip without a lot of bulk (e.g., Otter, etc.).

I moved some of my more-used icons lower in the screen layout, so as to maintain single-handedness as much as possible.  Other things just have to be double-handed, and I've grown accustomed to that.  I'm willing, because I really needed the larger screen; these eyes are not getting any sharper.

And yes, I would have been satisfied with an SE2... but I'm blown away by the 11 Pro (camera, display tech).  There's just something about a flagship.

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.)