thedba

MplsP said:

seankill said:

adyb said:

Hmmm - might be enough for me to upgrade from my 15’ mid 2012 rMBP - 14’ might be an acceptable compromise between screen size & cost!

It’s nice to see Apple return to functional. I’m still running a mid-2012 as well. Awesome laptop but showing it’s age now. The post 2015 MacBooks just suck IMO. The entire world uses HDMI ports, let’s get rid of ours..... morons. They are good laptops but the 2015 was the last best. Looks like that will change. 

no, no. You have it all wrong. You can get a USB C-HDMI converter, so it's not an issue at all, and if you don't have the adapter with you then it's your fault for not planning ahead, not Apple's fault for making a computer that lacks a standard port and forces you to accommodate. As a consumer, it's your job to adjust to what Apple thinks you need, not the other way around. /s

I'm really hoping the rumors are true. I replaced my aging 2011 MacBook air with a 2017 MBP but if I could get a M1 MBP with more ports, MagSafe and the better keyboard I would swap it out in a heartbeat. 

People all over the world have adapted to the so-called lack of ports problem by having the necessary adapters with them when their job depends on that.
Apple has been selling 4-5 million Macs per quarter with absolutely zero ports according to some of you but sure let’s pretend they know nothing and all the wisdom is concentrated in these tech forums that at best represent 1/1000th of a percent of the tech buying public.

As for these rumours, I’m afraid many here will be disappointed if their beloved {insert your legacy port here} doesn’t materialize this coming fall.

22july2013 said:

thedba said:

BTW: Here's a link that explains why Apple removed Parler from their app store. ...

We have always supported diverse points of view being represented on the App Store, but there is no place on our platform for threats of violence and illegal activity. Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people’s safety. We have suspended Parler from the App Store until they resolve these issues

Yes, that's fine, but is Apple really doing that equally to all points of views? They haven't removed apps which permitted Pelosi's call for a "national uprising", for example, and there are many more examples of violent speech that Apple doesn't seem worried about. I think THAT's the point that some people worry about. The point is that Apple is not applying its rules fairly to every point of view. When it comes to censoring only one side of the political debate, Apple needs to tread very carefully, not just to avoid a government lawsuit, but to avoid antagonizing half the population.

You might think that the First Amendment would protect Apple from any law meant to punish them from censoring only one political point of view. But there are plenty of ways that the government can legally impact Apple negatively for censoring only one political point of view. For example, the government could pass a law that prohibits the government from buying Apple equipment.

There's nothing fair or unfair about any of this. Apple/Google/MS/Disney are all private companies and they decide for themselves what stays and what goes on their platform.
If you are for the government stepping in and forcing Apple to bring Parler back with no moderation, should that same government also step in and regulate what goes on at Fox? Should an oversight committee say that after Tucker Carlson, Fox should put on Rachel Maddow to offer viewers an alternate opinion? Should MSNBC do the same in reverse?

If anyone here, you, me, "radarthekat" etc. have been advocating for Apple's right to manage their "walled garden" any way they see fit, then we can not just turn around today and say, well it's not fair that they're silencing such and such political opinion and that the government should step in, just because it doesn't suit us.

What we can do, is not buy any more Apple products, or Samsung or Huawei ... We can decide not to use Google any more as a search engine. 

MacQuadra840av said:

thedba said:

The two products that stood out in 2020 are AirPods Max and the M1 Macs. On the services side I would also add Apple One. 
Phil Schiller's "Can't Innovate....My a$$" remark rings more true now than ever. 

That is amusing that you bring up Phil's ridiculous comment.  His comment referred to the trash can Mac Pro, one of Apple's biggest failures in history.  A Mac that sat on their price list for 6 years and they could not even do the slightest update because it was a thermal disaster.  Hardly call one of their failures innovation.

Also, the AirPods Max is not an innovative product.  It is a pair of overpriced headphones that have less features than far superior headphones on the market that cost half the price.  Also, switching processors is not innovation.  The first M1 Macs are faster with native code, but they have less features than the Intel models they replaced.  How is that innovation?  Let's hope Apple's next chip to replace the limited M1 is far superior.

The remark was aimed at the part of the press that kept on harping that Apple was done without Steve Jobs. We all know how that turned out. 

AirPods Max, is one of those products that at first glance seems way overpriced but the more people get their hands on them, the more they like them. Other than price, I haven’t heard that many negatives about them. Plenty of videos out there from audiophiles that wouldn’t mind adding them to their collection. Not to replace their favorite paid of $800+ wired set but to complement it.
Besides, if you’ve been following Apple for a while now, you should know that Apple rarely competes on price.

Your remark on M1 is the most puzzling. They’re not only faster with native code but with translated code through Rosetta 2, as well. They’ve already sent shockwaves throughout the PC industry and in a couple of years time we’ll start seeing the demise of the x86 CISC model and the accelerated rise of the ARM-RISC model. In fact Microsoft itself has already stated that they will be working their own Surface models on ARM.

The two products that stood out in 2020 are AirPods Max and the M1 Macs. On the services side I would also add Apple One. 
Phil Schiller's "Can't Innovate....My a$$" remark rings more true now than ever. 

Oracle and HP.