lorin schultz

canukstorm said:

StrangeDays said:

avon b7 said:

tmay said:

avon b7 said:

tmay said:

avon b7 said:

tmay said:

avon b7 said:

10, X and XS are all fine with me.

They play nicely visually (and phonetically when pronounced incorrectly).

There are plenty of products with XS in the name and no one usually thinks of 'excess' when they read or here it.

I'm not convinced on the gold colour but I detest the rose and champagne variants so, depending on how it actually looks it might be ok if it isn't bling style. It would be amazing if the etched a colour mix like the one in the image on the screen onto the glass back. Especially as multi coloured gradient are so popular now.

That sounds like the script you have written to convince your wife to purchase the gold LCD X model as a replacement for her iPhone 6.

I have a dilemma with this actually. Last year she could have upgraded but chose to replace the battery. That gave her another year with the 6. The X was not on the table basically due to price. That left the 8 series or 7 series as candidates but they look 'old'.

When she saw my Honor 10 she said 'that's gorgeous!' so now I'm waiting to see pricing and sizes for iPhones without foreheads and chins in a couple of weeks. I'm hoping the rumours of an 'affordable' new phone prove to be true.

We can argue that a phone is just a phone but she is style conscious and in 2018, high screen to body ratios are the norm and as the phone will have to last her around three years, I wouldn't like her stuck with a big forehead and chin in 2020.

The LCD iPhone X model will be much more expensive than the Honor 10.

For sure. I'm just hoping the rumours prove true and one of the new phones is 'affordable' (even if it an Apple style definition of affordable).

Our family and social circle is dominated by Huawei/Honor phones. The sole iPhone is my wife's and there are a couple of oldish Samsungs.

She wants an iPhone and it would be nice for her to have one but we have been putting a lot of resources elsewhere and have plans for the next couple of years that make us think twice about certain things and one of them is phones.

If the Apple carrot is not close enough she could decide to hold out for another year or consider an Android.

She saw the Honor Magic 2 teaser from IFA today and commented favourably on the design.

She should buy an Android; she obviously doesn't care about Apple's ecosystem, and since the iPad Mini isn't going to be replaced by Apple, you should make a clean break.

Then all you have to do is get rid of your Mac, and the iPad, and you are entirely free of Apple's ecosystem.

That' really what you've been angling for, right?

How about competitively priced new products? Give me an iPad Mini 5 and new iPhone at an attractive price and we're onboard. Our iPads were competitive. No reason why new iPhones can't be either. Rumours are even pointing to exactly that. As for ecosystem. Nope. We are 'bad' Apple users as we do not subscribe to ANY Apple services.

The ecosystem does not refer to apple services, which they didn’t even have before not too long ago. 

The iPhone is priced well, as even the highest models are best sellers. The market feels they’re fair, despite you wanting cheapies. 

Then what does the ecosystem refer to?

Handoff, AirDrop, Time Machine, Bonjour, iCloud, Home Sharing, Family Sharing, AirPlay, and probably a few other things I'm forgetting. These are all available to any Apple user without extra cost.

slurpy said:

svencito said:

That's just great. The only good feature (aside from sharing calendar) is being removed. That just means not upgrading to Mojave (as I need none of the 90+ new 'features') or switching to other platforms. :-(

I literally don't know a single person that uses "back to my Mac", and as a heavy Mac user for the past 20 years, I've never used it. But yeah, conveniently it's now suddenly the "only good feature" since it's being removed.

You're completely full of shit. 

I use it all the time. Mostly to grab files from the RAID hanging off the machine at home, but not just that. I have a mini that I use strictly as a server for iTunes content and for rendering and transcoding projects. I use Back to My Mac to check on the progress of projects, and if a task is complete I can start the next one so it doesn't have to wait until I get home.

I'll look into what's available for alternatives before I freak out, but "cloud storage"doesn't seem like a good replacement for a 16TB storage device that's already paid for, nor does it allow me to control the machine at home.

I recently had need to put together a really basic web site just to show samples of my work. iWeb probably would have been fine, but I didn't know if it would work with High Sierra so I figured I'd try something new just for giggles.

I didn't want to spend a lot of time on it, so I figured I'd use a template system like Wordpress of Joomla. The more I looked into them, the more confused I became. I also found that the price of decent templates got me close to the price of Sparkle Pro, so I just got that instead.

One of the things that attracted me to it was I thought it would automagically reformat the site I created for computer screens to one optimized for tablets and phones. I don't know why I thought it would, but in case anyone else has the same impression, it doesn't. It DOES let you create separate versions for different devices, but you have to do all the formatting for each device type manually.

I don't know how it compares to anything other than iWeb and the now-discontinued Adobe Muse, but it offers many more flashy effects than iWeb and is easier to use than Muse. Operation is straightforward and intuitive, and while it doesn't get as granular as some might like, the amount of flexibility and customization it offers is pretty good.

If you want an example of what an amateur put together in about 16 hours, here's mine: http://v5vaudio.com

Rayz2016 said:
[...] One thing you definitely don't know is as much about cooling components as Apple does.

With due respect to Apple's engineers, I'm not sure I would hold up designing cooling systems as an Apple forté. Thermal constraints have held back improvements to the Mac Pro cylinder for five years and counting. The cooling in the iMac was incapable of supporting faster hardware and required a complete redesign for the iMac Pro. Last night I aborted a Pro Tools cataloguing operation because my MacBook Pro was getting so hot I was afraid letting it continue would cause damage.

I don't pretend to know anything about designing cooling systems myself, and I'm sure the challenges are daunting, so I'm not accusing Apple of a fault. I'm just saying if I was compiling a list of things Apple does really well, cooling might not be near the top.

johnbear said:

Oh again, No USB, No Magsafe, No SD card???????? Can't upgrade

Not again! This theme is getting so old.

The machine has FOUR USB ports! Or four Thunderbolt ports! Or four Firewire ports! Or Four HDMI ports! Or four ethernet ports! Or any combination of those and others! Or four places to connect a multiport adapter that allows me to connect my iLok, Eucon, power, and external monitor with ONE reversible connector! Why on Earth would anyone want to go back to the old paradigm of only one function per port?

As for Magsafe, you don't need it! If the power cord gets yanked, as mine does repeatedly by excited dogs tearing around the house, the connector pops out just like the old Magsafe did, but I get the advantages of choosing where it connects, varied sources of power, and transitioning towards a universal standard for powering ALL my devices! Plus if the connector frays, I replace a cheap cable instead of an expensive power supply. Plus plus if you really want a magnetic connector for some reason, you can BUY one!

It obviously doesn't matter to me whether you choose to buy the current iteration or not, but please stop complaining that your sweetie done did you wrong. The inconvenience of replacing a few cables and carrying a single USB-A-to-C adapter for a while is absolutely trivial compared to the flexibility and utility we gain.