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  • CEO Tim Cook's compensation cut by $1.5M following Apple's 2016 decline in sales

    thedbathedba
    Rayz2016 said:
    Actually, the biggest foulup was missing Christmas for the AirPod launch. 
    Totally agree with this, however look for AirPods to be the hot selling item for the months to come.
    Apple has become so big now that despite many small victories such as Apple Watch and AirPods, they barely move the needle in terms of overall performance.
    If those divisions were standalone companies, Wall Street and tech media would be drooling all over them.

    On a side note, I walked in to a nearby Apple store yesterday and bought me a pair of AirPods. The shelf where they stood had only 2 boxes remaining. I took one and before I knew it, the last one was gone as well.
    After using them for a few hours I realized how wires used to get in the way or tug at my ears every time I'd zip up my coat and go out. Absolutely love them.    
    StrangeDayscaliequality72521pscooter63ai46patchythepirate

  • CEO Tim Cook's compensation cut by $1.5M following Apple's 2016 decline in sales

    thedbathedba
    The headline and article itself clearly state that this cut was based on sales performance. 
    Nothing to do with stock prices or tech media BS. I really can't see where many of you read this.
    anantksundaram

  • Henge Docks unveils trio of Thunderbolt 3 docking stations for Apple's 2016 MacBook Pros

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    bobolicious said:
    So the large dock is $500, only a few hundred dollars less than refurbished macbook air ports, complete with computer, monitor, keyboard, trackpad... "http://www.apple.com/shop/browse/home/specialdeals/mac/macbook_air/13" And indeed these docks are marketed with the beautiful monitors Apple also eliminated. I bought a mbp - regrettably to date it has been more of a paperweight spending more time trying to figure out what it might work with than actually working. In theory, should it or could it actually be the reverse? "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_interface#Thunderbolt_3"
    Well if you haven't figured yet what to do with with your new MBP, I'm sure there's a few us here who would lve to relieve you of that burden. 
    watto_cobra

  • New HDMI 2.1 specification brings support for 4K at 120Hz, 8K, 10K resolutions

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    foggyhill said:
    Soli said:
    r00fus1 said:
    Jeebus, I'm happy to get 1080p at over 30hz framerates. Who can actually tell the difference between 1080p and 2160p (4K) at standard TV viewing distances?
    If you have anything close to normal or better than normal vision, it's very easy to tell the difference between 1080p and 2160p "at standard TV viewing distances." Could you tell the difference between 720p and 1080p or pre-Retina and Retina displays from Apple "at standard […] viewing distances"? Most people can.

    TVs are getting larger and living rooms aren't being elongated to force you sit further away so the pixels would just continue to get larger and more noticeable if you kept them at the same resolution, hence the benefit of doubling the resolution/quadrupling the number of pixels to be displayed.

    Case in point, running Netflx on a 4th gen Apple TV which only outputs 1080p doesn't look as good as Netflix via an 75" 2160p TV with HDR10 when the content is available in UHD+HDR. Even unconverted 1080p looks better. While UHD is still limited, it's offered on pretty much every new series from both Netflix and Amazon. Super cars on Grand Tour via Prime Video looks amazing.
    You're conflating content/delivery mechanism and projection mechanism; OTA 1080P or Blue Ray 1080P creams 4K netflix.
     
    As for upconverted 1080P looks better, which upconverted content? Streamed one. Are you inventing information that's not there to get to this!

    1080P streams are crappier than 4K streams but that's because bitrates for them are generally much lower.
    Can blame the very low standards of the population for that, same thing with 4K native vs 4K streams.

    4K HDR native OLED can be extraordinary on a 70 inch+ TV if you're sitting 10 feet from of it, but that's not what your talking about and most
    people won't get this kind of experience anytime soon. And people have the crazy happy of sitting real far from their TV, so far they'd need a 70 inch minimum
    to see any difference unless the 4K TV is HDR too.

    4K tvs are pretty much all crappy, much crappier than a top end plasma of 5 years back, except at the top end.

    And yes, I've seen just about every variant of TV tech out there.




    My Pioneer Elite 50" Plasma is older than 5 years and it's not even 1080p (It's 1365x768 so technically it's 768p). 
    The beauty of those TV's was their contrast ratio. 
    Number of pixels is the easiest spec to sell to the mostly ignorant public. Contrast ratio, color saturation, color accuracy are much more difficult.  
    tallest skil

  • Henge Docks unveils trio of Thunderbolt 3 docking stations for Apple's 2016 MacBook Pros

    thedbathedba
    Henge makes beautiful docks. A little pricy but the damn best, in the business. When I decide to upgrade my 2015 rMBP, I will seriously consider one of these.
    netrox