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mj web said:

nolamacguy said:

utter nonsense. in flight entertainment ports is the feeaking last of anyone's priorities, including the airlines. get an adapter or use the freebies on the plane. also, it's not a mini RCA jack. mini phono. 

tim cooks Apple is doing better than Jobs' by every quantifiable metric. the critical whining had remained constant, however. 

get real. 

Do you mean with the exception of growth, innovation, design, and creativity? All but the deniers agree that Apple, under Tim Cook's leadership, is withering on the vine. Wake up! already! 

What leadership?  Mac hardware is comatose ... how many years now since the Mac Pro got updated?  You can't buy an Apple monitor anymore??  Dropping ethernet on MacBooks? There's a dongle for that. Fine .. except you can't use it while powering it at the same time ... unless you add a hub and a million wires.

Then look at Mac OS:  it's being dumbed down and made to feel and look like iOS ... the very thing Steve Jobs warned against:  the Mac is not an iPad, you don't carry it in your pocket, so it shouldn't have the same interface as your phone.

Then move on to the iPhone:  the change from 3.5mm to proprietary format does nothing for anyone, other than irritate Apple's own user base. It is self-destructive. It does not simplify, it makes life more complicated (not simpler) ... and iPhone innovation is just some boring stuff about coloured metals, taking photos and asking Siri to find you a restaurant.

In the olde days, tuning in to Macworld was the coolest and most exciting thing to do; ... today, I watch and get totally bored.  

Maybe the Pro version lets you use a normal set of headphones?

Apple not producing a monitor is simply unacceptable. 

Somebody should tell the guy from the Matrix film ... he can get one of these instead of blowing up his brain and blood coming out of his nose, just to smuggle some data in his head.

"Apple should directly port the iOS interface layout of Settings (above) to the Mac, leaving the old System Preferences available for existing users who prefer it,"

There's nothing wrong with OS X System Preferences:  in fact, they are the epitome of good design and simplicity. 
All this junk about merging iOS with OS X is just that: junk -------->  Steve Jobs understood this years ago, and laughed at Microsoft who were trying to convert Windows into some kind of web/i/OS, with panels, and touch screens and all sorts of iFashion nonsense. As Steve said, and wise words they were too:  OS X is for people who create (remember the Chiat ad!),, while iOS is for people who consume content. Obviously, there is some blurring ... but trying to force the two things to be the same is going to be as big a disaster as Windows 8.

And I have to laugh at suggestions of running Macs on ARM:  what's the point???  Who cares if it on ARM:  who is going to recompile? No-one.