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Kuo: Redesigned MacBook Pro models with MagSafe, no Touch Bar, more ports coming in Q3
As a creative professional I would look forward to the possible return of an SD card slot and HDMI port. However I would mourn greatly the loss of the Touch Bar. I know it is popular to complain about it in Internet forums, but in the real world every Mac user that I know loves it. And, yes, almost all of them are creative professionals. But guess what, most creative professionals I know have NEVER visited AppleInsider or Mac Rumors. They are too busy creating graphics and videos and using their Touch Bar’s to scrub audio.
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Samsung debuts $799 Galaxy S21, $1199 S21 Ultra
I’m guessing that they report on competitor products occasionally to provide context to their Apple coverage. As I’ve said before, a book about American tanks of WW2 would not be very good if it didn’t mention armor development in Germany, Japan, Britain and Russia. Having a focus is good, tunnel vision is not.crowley said:Solid update, no surprises, not sure why AI is reporting it.
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The top nine smartphones activated on Christmas were iPhones
The iPhone 12 Mini does not have to be a big seller to be a success. The Mini is about giving the Apple user base options. This is particularly important in a tech ecosystem that only has one manufacturer. My daughter, for example, likes the smaller size phone and if she had not already bought an iPhone SE earlier this year the Mini would have certainly been the model she would have looked at. She’ll get one the next time she is ready to upgrade.lkrupp said:
For all the yammering about people wanting a smaller phone that went on here I guess reality says otherwise.crowley said:
Mini for me too, it's strange to me that it isn't more popular.rcfa said:Funny about the iPhone 12 mini: there are only two devices I would pick out of the current line-up: 12 Pro Max, or 12 mini.
Anything else makes sense only in very special cases, and for posers...
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Apple hits back at Facebook, says new iOS 14 ad tracking rules provide user choice
A few years ago I realized that every time I bought something on Amazon I started seeing ads for that very thing on Web sites, Facebook, Instagram, etc. I went into the settings on Amazon and FB and turned on every privacy setting that I could locate to try to stop this cross-site tracking, but nevertheless it continues. I don’t know if this is Amazon selling my purchase information to others, or if it is sites like FB tracking my activity across other sites, but either way I applaud Apple’s efforts to restore a user’s control over their digital identity. -
What happened during the troubled Big Sur launch, and why Apple can't let it happen again
I’m not sure why you are being a jerk, nothing in my post attacked you. Your post actually comes off as a rant that is made more senseless by the fact you try to defend something that should not be defended. You talk about the 90 minutes as if it was some sort of planned outage where we knew ahead of time that our computers would be unusable for a specified short period of time. This was an unexpected event that virtually unplugged thousands of Macs simultaneously without warning, explanation or apology. I’m not actually that upset by the episode but it can’t be brushed off like you have done otherwise we run the risk of it happening again. Apple touts its computers’ reliability, they need to ensure this.sflocal said:
90 minutes? Wow. There's 525,600 minutes in a year. Glass half empty kind of person? Go make a cup of coffee.firelock said:
The complaint is not that people couldn't download Big Sur, though that was the case, but that Apple (if this analysis is correct) managed to nuke a lot of Macs when the launched it. My entire department's Mac's were essentially bricked for about an hour and a half and none of us were trying to download the update. Applications would either not launch or launched and worked so slowly as to be unusable. I have two MacBook Pro's and they both became unresponsive at the same instant.sflocal said:#firstworldproblemsThis is the part where I say that I am embarrassed to be a part of modern society where people whine and complain that they can't get their computers updated or working for a few hours, and those that write articles claiming it to be a bigger deal than it really is. People NEVER say anything about the countless days, weeks, or years that something's been working well. It's only that ONE day, or hours that the twitterverse gets their undies in a wedgie. It's embarrassing really and those that think the world is falling need to take a step back and contemplate what's really important.I guess it's me being born before modern technology took over. I know tech's not perfect and things go wrong, but damn... some people.Disclaimer: After all the complaining yesterday, I decided to upgrade my 2017 MBP that I rarely use just to see how bad it was. I was fully prepared to experience the same problems as others complained about. My MBP downloaded BigSur and upgraded it all in under and hour. I was shocked. I expected to leave it on the entire day/night while I do my other work. On top of that, after a few hours of using it - so far - I've had zero issues with my apps, and was pleasantly surprised that my crucial apps (Java-based) worked perfectly.Go figure.The "opinion piece"? Whatever. People place way too high a value on these kind of articles. Most folks have the attention-span of a gnat. Today most will have forgotten about it. By the weekend... completely forgotten about and now looking forward to their next 15-minute fix.Apple will take this event as something they need to work out. It never ends, and it will happen again. Nothing is perfect, but funny how some expect that from others knowing what they do could certainly be put under scrutiny as well. Get over it.
I will say that neither AI's news article from yesterday nor the opinion piece issued today adequately explain what happened, what caused it, how many people were affected, and why people are upset. That is why the comments here are hard to interpret.disclaimer: I'm in IT and I understand outages in our enterprise as well. We calculated that each hour of downtime at our company costs about $80,000 of lost productivity. At the same time, I also understand that everyone complains when something doesn't work, but never complements the uptime and countless weeks when everything is running smoothly and without issue. Think about it.Technology brings amazing benefits in speed and productivity. If 90 minutes really burns your backside, maybe you should consider unplugging everything and running your company on paper & pencil and see how efficient that is. That 90 minutes will suddenly feel like nothing.People are just a bunch a entitled whiners that either have no idea how things were, or have very short attention spans.
