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  • Apple discontinues full-size HomePod, to focus on HomePod mini

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    darkvader said:
    Hi Homepod, this is iPod Hi-Fi!  Welcome to the discontinued overpriced garbage club!

    It was a stupid product when it was new, it never improved, the price never dropped to anything even remotely close to reasonable, Apple discontinued it. 

    Why would anybody be surprised?  It was a failure from minute 1.

    Exactly!   I can't imagine why anybody would have purchased one to begin with.    To me it was a spy tool that people willingly paid a massive mark up on.
    Alex1N

  • Apple discontinues full-size HomePod, to focus on HomePod mini

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    MplsP said:
    Yeah, I can’t say I’m totally surprised. Like the article said, there was nothing wrong with the technology or sound quality - the reviews were pretty much unanimous that both were excellent. Apple just came late to the smart speaker market and out priced itself. 

    Now, imagine if instead of spending $300 on a smart speaker you just spent $70,000 on a car...

    It is just another example of stupid marketing from Apple!    I pretty much knew what was going to happen the minute Apple offered up the price.   Combine that with always on invasions of privacy who would really want such a thing in their house if they really thought about it?   That invasion of privacy is a big no no to most of us.    The other thing here is that most Americans are not completely stupid, we know how much the components in such a device costs and don't enjoy getting gouged.
    Alex1N

  • Apple made Photoshop transition to M1 a 'smooth experience,' Adobe says

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    tht said:
    Would be interesting to see some investigation to why Adobe apps are so hard to migrate to new architecture. A lot of the compute intensive, or faceless ops/functions, should be straight ANSI C/C++. Custom platform middleware? Crap UI implementations? Custom memory allocation routines?
    It would be interesting for sure.   Much of adobe’s software could use updating     However I wonder also how much of this speed up is software only or leveraging specialized hardware on M1.   
    watto_cobra

  • Former Facebook employees detail impact of Apple's upcoming anti-tracking privacy feature

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    It is shocking how deeply the advertising industry believes their own nonsense.    If anything these days, I'm more likely to not buy something advertised on the web.   It just pisses me off to no end the incessant ads burning up my bandwidth.    It really is theft of services.
    qwerty52baconstangradarthekatmobirdAlex1Nwatto_cobra

  • Two new Apple Silicon MacBooks enter production in late 2021, report claims

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    randominternetperson said:
    “Much-maligned touchbar”?  I would have used something like innovative, versatile, product-defining, or beloved instead.  I’m really hoping that Apple doesn’t listen to the vocal minority this time around.  Outside this forum are there that many people who long to emulate a VT-100 or otherwise has a need for 20th-century-holdover physical F-keys?  Setting volume and brightness is so my better with a slider rather than buttons. Having clearly labeled context-sensitive virtual buttons is clearly better than cryptic, static keys. Don’t go backwards, Apple. 
    As for function keys, if you consider the ESC. key to be a function key then yes they are needed.   As for VT100 emulation, this may sound strange but there is still working hardware/software out there that expects to communicate with VT100's.

    Beyond that Apple really needs to learn that being an ass isn't placing them in a good light.   The touch bar is not a bad idea, it is the implementation that is the issue.   When you completely delete functionality like function keys you basically are telling your users you don't care about their often massive investments in software.   It also dismisses that some software uses the function keys effectively.

    The touchbar or something like it really isn't a bad idea as a general concept.   The problem is they deleted very important functionality for many users with a replacement that wasn't ergonomic.   Such a supplemental touch screen has a lot of potential if they could get developers to make use of the hardware.   This is the second problem, there is no cross platform solution to encourage developers to move to the tech.    On top of that Apple limited the tech to a handful of Macs when it should have been implemented across the board.    That includes touch bar keyboards for desktop Macs and even Mac Air. 
    muthuk_vanalingam