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  • Apple loses $500 million bidding war for J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot

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    robin huber said:
    Apple is a premium brand, Abrams is a middlebrow schlock merchant, albeit a successful one. Prefer Apple pursue BBC and Masterpiece Theatre talent rather than visual junk food. 
    BBC and Masterpiece-  their audience died off 20 years ago.
    fastasleep

  • New iPadOS lets you use a mouse to control your iPad and iPhone apps [u]

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    mac_128 said:
    Some people really can't get over Apple ruining their talking points, defending Apple's resistance to adding a mouse all these years.

    The bottom line is Apple is being totally hypocritical with the iPad by Marketing it with an attached keyboard, but not including a mouse, after stating that they would not bring a touchscreen to the MacBook because it would be awkward to lift one's hands from the keyboard to touch the screen -- exactly the same thing required by an iPad while using a keyboard.

    And for that exact reason, they are adding mouse support. It doesn't matter if it's under accessibility -- that merely allows Apple to save face by insisting that it's there just for the disabled, knowing full well it's likely to serve the very people who would otherwise be using a MacBook, or buy into Apple's marketing that the iPad appears to serve as a MacBook replacement, merely by adding a keyboard.
    I think that Apple marketing will say they were consistent in saying that “NO” they did not add mouse support to iOS.   They added it to iPadOS.

    Either way it was obvious that this was coming when Marzipan was revealed last year.   I expect that in a year or two mouse support will be equal to pencil support in iPadOS as new apps are developed that are designed to run on both mac and iPad through UiKit (or is is webkit).

    With Apple allowing. You to use an iPad as a second screen Apple for a Mac Apple will be delivering their Toaster/Refrigrator and every one will love chilled toast. It may just take a few more years to get there.   Can’t wait for them to get there.   I expect they will someday announce the Smart MacBook some day.   Their version.of the Surface Book.  But it will be a much better device.

    For all you vile attackers against this.  HAHA HAHA.
    mac_128GeorgeBMaccgWerks

  • Editorial: Reporting about the MacBook Pro is failing at a faster rate than the butterfly ...

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    PickUrPoison said:
    TC Young said:
    As a 30 year Apple fan and loyal customer, I have to disagree with this article. Both my 2015, 2016, and now 2017 Macbooks have exhibited problems with their keyboards, eventually requiring replacement. This is a first of *any* Apple computers I have used since the mid 1980s. I can't chalk that up to simple coincidence, nor do I consider it "normal" when it comes to wear & tear. I can only hope Apple eventually gets the design right.
    Your experience isn’t necessarily atypical; some users such as yourself have had trouble with both the scissor and the butterfly keyboards. Some people are just hard on keyboards, or unlucky.

    If the class action lawsuit over the butterfly keyboards goes anywhere, we might get some hard data on the actual failure rates. The butterfly keyboards are definitely more problematic than the scissor-type, but there are plenty in the Apple-hate crowd—with no actual experience with the new keyboard—who will insist that everyone is having problems, when that’s just not true. 


    You are the one wrong.   The butterfly keyboard was introduced with the newer, thinner MacBook in to 2015.    It was not added to the MBP until the 2016 MBP - which was why I bought a 2015 MBP and hope Apple eventually brings back the old keyboard on the pro at least.  Lots of good things about the current model, but I'll wait till finally a new design (finally) comes on with 10 nm intel chips from Intel.   Hopefully the re-design will give them a little bit of room to change the keyboard.
    henrybay

  • Apple extends MacBook Pro keyboard service program to 2018 models

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    skippingrock said:
    Time to just stop making these keyboards and redesign a proper substitute.
    That would be easy.   Just go back to the pre-butterfly keyboard.   4 years is too long for this beta to go on.
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  • Apple updates 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pros with new Intel chips, enhanced butterfly keyboa...

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    Fourth times the charm.
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