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And there’s the fatal flaw: subscription.

The discussion of whether ARM Windows versions are or aren’t available to end users (and what they run) doesn’t even matter.

It’s kind of obvious from the outside. The question is whether Apple abandons it or not. My GF and I both have the same Vizio TV. They both have the same versions of software. They do not both operate identically. The UI is shit. The apps are all shit. The performance is shit. I am close to buying both an Apple TV and a Blu-ray player so I can stop using my old MacBook Pro 5,5 as a half-assed media device cluttering the area near the TV. It would piss me off to find that Apple TV is just as buggy as iOS, or that the apps are just as badly made as the ones on “smart” TVs, or that Apple have abandoned it shortly after I buy one... but I HATE “smart” TVs with the fury of a billion exploding stars.

They’re absolute garbage and, as data mining tools for their advertiser sales, the companies selling them have ZERO motivation to improve a goddamned thing about them for the sake of TV-purchasing CUSTOMERS. Like with Google, we are just cattle to these bastards, bullied into using their products because the invisible fist of corporatism and greed has made sure we have no meaningful choices. Pick one or the other, it’s all the same garbage.

Speaking of advertising and bad technology: this site gets worse by the day. Forced videos and now “sponsored” articles (though really, marking them as such is the real change, since these have existed for a while now).

Advertising ruins EVERYTHING. Ad blockers exist because advertising is intolerable and willfully abusive. Don’t bitch about anyone blocking your incessant garbage; you forced our hands and did it to your own goddamned selves.

chadbag said:

Beats said:

mknelson said:

Beats said:

Some of this sounds like PR BS. I don’t see how this helps children like Tim claims.  And Apple collaborating with the government is embarrassing.

Collaborating with the government how? (you are the government in a democracy btw).

Well in that case we can stretch it to collaborating with me (government) because I’m allowing them to snoop through my photos.

From the article:
” In true Apple fashion, pursuing this goal has required deep cross-functional commitment, spanning Engineering, GA, HI, Legal…”
-Tim Cook

Maybe I’m reading it wrong but “legal” is a government entity. I would bet some looneys from Congress or the FBI twisted Apple’s arm to provide this.

NO NO NO NO NO

"legal" is shorthand for the the company's legal dept.  In this case, Apple's legal department.  The lawyers that work for Apple on staff (usually) that vet everything Apple does to  make sure it is legal (in their opinion) and what legal consequences of stuff could be.  In addition to any other day to day legal type work the company needs.

The conspiracy theorist thinking is maddening, isn’t it? I just about blew up reading that one’s comment. I’m glad two other people responded to it because I have no patience any more.

foregoneconclusion said:

sflocal said: How many WinTel laptops experience the same issue?

Laptop screens are relatively fragile regardless of the manufacturer. They can easily be damaged when closed just by weight on top of the laptop. One common scenario: put laptop into backpack that has books/equipment for work or school and then set the backpack flat on the floor or flat on a table. The weight of the other items can potentially flex the laptop screen enough to cause damage. 

Yes, this is true. So the question needs to be asked: Why are “we” accepting MOBILE devices being this flimsy today? This isn’t how it always was.

Don’t tell me “we” chose this by buying lighter and thinner (flimsier) devices. There was no choice when manufacturers made progressively thinner and lighter machines as each revision came out, with Apple putting on most of the market pressure with their pathological pursuit of thinness.

sflocal said:

OctoMonkey said:

Apple needs to step up or this will result in yet another lawsuit...  potentially class action.

I have worked on industrial designs where we had to take significant precautions to prevent cracking of a clear plastic lens.  While a notebook computer would not experience the same level of physical stress, incorporating clamped plastic in a design can be quite tricky.

How many WinTel laptops experience the same issue?  Little to no info?  It's not because it doesn't happen.  It's because they're not Apple so no one cares.  How many screens are cracking vs how many being sold?  

I suspect its more with people not accepting responsibility for their precision piece of tech and expecting it to be Apple's problem.

If the reports are honest, and why assume they’re not, it really shouldn’t be so easy to damage a MacBook screen. You talk about “precision piece of tech”... “Precision” means what in this context? Tiny tolerances for handling a MOBILE device that is expected to be opened and closed and moved around a lot? Go back to the design process and fix those tiny tolerances.