mikeycampbell81

rob53 said:

An observation: My MBP's disk drive is on the bottom left with the battery from the left-center to the right side so it looks like the disk drive took the majority of the impact, not the battery. It also looks like it entered towards the left top of the MBP, going through all his ports, then hard drive before exiting. It doesn't appear it would have even touched the battery. I'd like to know where he works since that bar-coded label on the back isn't from Apple.

The rMBP eschewed disc drives -- replaced by battery cells -- long before the side "gills" were introduced in mid-2012. Considering the two Thunderbolt ports, lack of SD card reader and what looks to be dual mics, this is probably a 2014-2015 model. That means the bullet met aluminum, battery and probably a speaker.

roake said:

mikeycampbell81 said:

roake said:

Awesome job at inserting the politics into the story (the photo)

It should go without saying, but the photographic reproduction of a headline from another publication, in this case The Washington Post, is not an endorsement of its contents. The photo is focusing on Touch ID, as is the headline and body of the story it accompanies. Thanks.

In that case, just fuzz out the headline.  Otherwise, it's a poor understanding of political manipulation that you guys have.  I definitally lose respect for a publication that worms crap like this into an unrelated story then attempts to justify it by saying "'someone else did it, so it's okay for us, too."

What if MacRumors showed a similar phone graphic but with the headline, "AppleInsider sucks"?  would you ignore it because the new button was a little more centered than the headline?

You're missing the point. If you look back at what I wrote, I'm neither condoning nor condemning the Post's headline. It's inclusion is completely arbitrary, it has nothing -- zero, nada, zilch -- to do with our story. 

It is our duty to provide informative and illustrative articles about Apple, not sanitize, censor or otherwise alter an Apple News feed simply because certain content might not sit well with a reader's political proclivities. That is not our business, nor is it our right.

As journalists we must carefully weigh the pros and cons of publishing controversial or otherwise sensitive photos, the recent kerfuffle regarding Facebook's censure of Pulitzer-winning AP image "napalm girl" comes to mind. A photo of an iPhone displaying the title of an op-ed by an established journalistic publication -- no matter its leanings -- is not by any sane measure controversial. 

End of discussion. 

roake said:

Awesome job at inserting the politics into the story (the photo)

It should go without saying, but the photographic reproduction of a headline from another publication, in this case The Washington Post, is not an endorsement of its contents. The photo is focusing on Touch ID, as is the headline and body of the story it accompanies. Thanks.

Moving to Lightning-only isn't just for better sound, although the vast majority of bloggers tend to focus on this specific point. Think on-ear biometrics.

http://macdailynews.com/2016/0...

"Apple’s U.S. Patent No. 8,655,004: “Sports monitoring system for headphones, earbuds and/or headsets.”"

With wearables about to become a major category in the Apple ecosystem, this is bigger than just improved sound.

Included a link to our coverage of that patent, since we discovered it in 2014

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/02/18/apple-patents-sensor-packed-health-monitoring-headphones-with-head-gesture-control

lord amhran said:

There's nothing "alleged" about it. They were convicted & found guilty of such.

The class action was separate from the DOJ antitrust suit. As Apple and its fellow defendants settled, no ruling was furnished, leaving the allegations standing.