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Quote: Originally Posted by sog35 Google data mines to sell ads. Wow, you didn't even read what I wrote. The point is, Google doesn't sell the data, and the ads that they sell have no ability to be bid on based on any data they could b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sog35 Google makes 99% of their profits from advertising and data mining. Pretty obvious what they will do with the Nest data. Google doesn't make any money by selling user data. They never have, and it's dir…
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Quote: Originally Posted by IndyFX if you were even a prosumer (semi-pro sounds derisive to me) you would know 4 things (and any one of the 4 pretty much brings your tenuous chain of logic to the ground) : 1 the Cameras inside the iPhones a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton You missed my point. The death of Aperture and the legacy-port-free 2015 MacBook have nothing to do with each other. The lack of Aperture does not make the MacBook any less of a product for you. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by xixo (tl;dr: new MacBook is all about looking forward, Apple's standard battle plan) When Apple introduced the first iMac, their existing customers complained "No SCSI, no ADB, no floppy drive". They could not see …
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 ... Your view here is a bit warped. Apple went with USB as an industry leader back in the day. They went to USB 3 as soon as Intel had suitable chips. ... Sure Apple can run the "numbers", but this machine …
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheWhiteFalcon Nope, more people (including me) would have complained for the loss of the 3.5mm jack. And you aren't taking into account the taper of the machine. There is no physical room. The second port would be on…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheWhiteFalcon Except there's no physical room on the casing, which means it would have been larger, and the battery would have been reshaped because of the extra space lost. Larger = heavier. The battery could'v…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MagMan1979 If you can't move that past that point, then I wouldn't bother continuing this any further, as everyone here would become blue in the face giving you factual, logical reasons for why you're wrong, only to …
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheWhiteFalcon I would have cared. Shaving even a quarter of a pound off is perceptible. Apple shaved nearly a full pound going from the 13" Air to the 12" MB. That pound adds up quickly. I would love to carry ar…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MagMan1979 What are you, 12 years old? Bizarro land?! Your response is laden with constant "me, me, all about me" You do a great job of imagining words that aren't there. I only used the word "me" once, and …
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Quote: Originally Posted by williamlondon Not only does your logic completely fail, but your attitude is that every single product should address the needs of you, whatever those may be. Sorry, but that's a bit self-centred. Apple does a …
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Quote: Originally Posted by MagMan1979 No, actually he hit it spot on, and you just danced around it. To expect such is pure arrogance, and SN's comment was completely accurate. Wow, I've entered bizarro land over here. Look back at th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton So you'd better buy a Lenovo or HP ultrabook running Windows because Apple products don't run Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop. Oh wait... Wow, way to totally miss the point. That takes some effort…
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This product isn't for you™ Yes, we get that. The problem with the 2015 MacBook 12" is that in introducing it, the product that is for most of us doesn't exist. It's a shame that Apple didn't release something similar to the MB 12", but had at l…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 I'm not an editor so I can't offer anything from that perspective. However I did watch the reactions of many so called professional when FCPX came out and frankly with a group like that I wouldn't put much v…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone Seriously? Cool as in Snoop Dog or the dozens of other gangster hip-hop artists? Ah, No! Long Beach is place I would avoid if at all possible. Apologies to anyone who lives there. I was born in Long Beach.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sandor then why are you replying to me? Why did you reply to the OP (or me for that matter)? The OP talked about privacy issues. You responded about private islands (not property tax). I responded about how neit…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich Scarcity increases perceived value and tends to generate excitement to acquire Apple's products in the first month or so. Intentional or not, it works. I get that this is an influencing variable, but …
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Quote: Originally Posted by sandor The issue in this article, as i saw it, was that Oregon changed property tax law, resulting in Apple delaying build-out. Both seasteading & private "island-countries" would nullify the moving-target taxa…