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boogerman2000 said:

mac_128 said:

wood1208 said:

Plenty lightening cables around so it's all good if 2019 iPhone stays with Lightening port. But in future if Apple going to move iPhone to USB-C than sooner is better. I don't see another physical port standard on horizon unless everyone move to Wirless for charging and Data/music transfer.

I don't see any reason ever to move the iPhone to USB-C. Wireless charging is the next standard Apple will likely move to, and drop the exposed port concept from their phones entirely. They've steadily been moving to seal it up completely. For the optional need to make a physical connection for a very small portion of Apple's iPhone base, something like the SmartConnector is likely the way to go. For most customers, wireless will suffice to meet all of their needs, and encourage use of Apple's Cloud services -- which after all is a stated goal of their transition away from hardware focused profits. 

Wireless phones and self doing cars ain’t gonna happen Tim needs to blow out the competition with some battery breakthroughs then we’ll cut that wire for good not before

melgross said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

dougd said:

And still no new Mac Pro.  Apple sucks

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/04/05/apple-modular-mac-pro-launch-coming-in-2019-new-pro-group-formed-to-guarantee-future-of-hardware

Coming in 2019. It is 16 days into 2019.

Yeah, we know. But Apple has said nothing for months. This is unacceptable. For the consumer market, that may be fine, but not for the Pro market, where purchases are planned months in advance. I used to buy about 10 new top line Macs every year for my company, relegating the previous top 10 to secondary status, and moving down the line. We, like most other shops, were on a three year plan. Each level was brought down one step each year, until the forth year, when these oldest machines were either given to employees, or otherwise disposed of.

apple has made it impossible to carry out any rational schedule. I know of a number of shops which are, or have finished, transitioning over to Windows, buying workstations. Will any of them come back? Maybe some, but Apple is doing irreparable damage to their credibility. At the very least, they needed to update the 2013 Mac Pro every year, but for reasons that are incomprehensible to us, decided not to.

i’m hoping that a good part of the delay is to include PCI 4, coming this year, and possibly Thunderbolt 4, which should be coming at some point. Remember that Intel stated that in a decade, Thunderbolt would be up to 100Gbs. We’re only at 40 now, and from people I speak to, we should expect the next jump to be to a minimum of 60. There are a number of other technologies I’d like to see. Since this will undoubtedly be a very expensive machine, it needs to at the bleeding edge. If it takes a bit more time for that, considering how long it’s already taking, I’m willing to wait, but they really need to say something more on what this will be.

And again you quote the most expensive possible situation. You even threw in AppleCare, a case and a 3rd party data plan for 2 years! lol

Beyond absurd.