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  • Apple's 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro keyboard expected to shift to scissor mechanism

    I don’t think there is anything inherently wrong with the butterfly keyboard beyond the fact that they made it not possible to pop keys out easily, hopefully a future chasis redesign with better locks is all that’s needed?

    I also noticed the report that the iPad keyboards will always be the same, and I’m guessing it’s possible they will redesign them as well at some point to be backlit, whatever the mechanism it uses.
    watto_cobra
  • Apple TV trails behind Roku, other TV platforms in US device sales

    The Apple TV is a great device, but the base model HD version cost $150, sometimes 4 times what the competitors are offering, Apple isn’t going to have a lot of market share unless they have something less than half the price of the current one(like the 3rd gen was at some point), and I don’t think they have any plans to actually compete as they are releasing the Apple TV app to smart TVs, and I think that Is a better decision than trying to make a half baked version at less than half the price.
    entropys
  • GameClub raises $2.5M to bring classic iOS games back to life

    2.5M is couch change to Apple, so why doesn't Apple give a shit?

    Apple should pump 5M and bring all the classics back and even own them. iPhone was a revolutionary device and these games are part of Apples history.
    Apple isn't in the business of updating other peoples Apps for them. With that said it wouldn't be that surprising that Apple Arcade might bring back some previous games and they have a contract with all the developers to keep all their games up to date as long as they are on the service moving forward.
    watto_cobra
  • Apple declares iPad 2 obsolete eight years after Steve Jobs launched it

    hodar said:
    What other electronics company supports their products for 8 years?

    Most drop you like a bad habit, after 1 year.  Why doesn't anyone ask Microsoft about support for their line of dropped Surface and SurfaceRT tablets?
    I’m pretty sure law in a number of places makes them mandated by the 5 years as well.

    The iPad 2 is simply the best iPad upgrade with its hardware running relatively well for so long.
    watto_cobra
  • Apple contemplated buying parts of Intel's cellular modem business to speed up 5G

    iOS_Guy80 said:
    Apple should just buy all of Intel and get on with designing and building all of their chips. 
    X86 chips seem to be not likely to be around long since the Apple Arm chips are already so good.
    GeorgeBMaccornchip