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  • Upcoming USB-C standard more than doubles power delivery to 240W

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    j2fusion said:
    If it maintains the 20V specification then it would have to push 12 amps through the cable. That would require something like 14 gage wire to carry that kind of current. That means thick heavy cable unless they push the voltage up to 48 volts to keep the current 5 amp draw. I followed the link to the USB-IF and couldn’t find any details. 

    Apparently, it will be 48 volts, so it should be manageable.  FireWire came close, at 40 volts.

    However, the fun will be if this adds yet more cable types to the roster, and if there will be 60W, 100W, and 240W cables.

    USB-C may have been the One Connector To Rule Them All, but all that has done is shift the complexity to the cables.
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  • Congress members demand Apple exit China in letter to Tim Cook

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    LOL.

    If these clowns want to uphold the principles of privacy, they might want to start at home, by enacting a U.S. version of the GPDR, and preventing companies like Facebook from tracking users across the internet, or allowing the data mining industry to go unchecked.

    Next, explicitly forbid the U.S. government, and its intelligence agencies like the FBI from trying to force backdoors into encryption, and any of them from engaging in warrantless domestic surveillance of U.S. citizens, whether directly, or indirectly by purchasing information from data brokers.

    Not going to hold my breath for any of that to happen anytime soon, or ever.
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  • Advertisers flee to Android as majority of iOS users opt out of ad tracking

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    Jobs held the belief that "…customers don't know what they want until we've shown them."

    Then, in 2010, he said this:

    "Privacy means people know what they’re signing up for, in plain English, and repeatedly. That’s what it means. I’m an optimist, I believe people are smart. And some people want to share more data than other people do. Ask them. Ask them every time. Make them tell you to stop asking them if they get tired of your asking them. Let them know precisely what you’re going to do with their data.  That’s what we think."

    Advertisers may be objecting, and some users may even be asking why it took Apple so long, but it is adhering to those long held principles.

    Some may have wondered, once the internet became mainstream, and embraced by the world as an amazing force, how long it would take before it became corrupted, by greed and/or malice, and find the balance between its positives and negatives reach a sort of equilibrium, or topic for debate.  I did.

    Thanks to companies like Facebook, and the online ad industry in general, I guess the answer ended up being about 25-30 years.
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  • AirPods Max won't support Apple Music lossless over Lightning, HomePod also left out

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    dysamoria said:
    I’m surprised Lightning doesn’t carry digital audio. I wonder why I thought it did.
    It does.  The Lightning to 3.5mm dongle is actually a DAC (and a good one, as well as one of the cheapest things Apple sells(!)), so it's receiving digital output from the port.  The constraint is either in the maximum bitrate it, or the APP's DAC supports.

    Either Apple is being disingenuous with its statements, or there is some sloppy reporting occurring.  Maybe both.
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  • Redesigned colored MacBook Air shown off in new renders

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    Zeebler said:
    I'm a bit perplexed at how brutal the new design team is at Apple of all companies. The design flaws with the iMac's white bezel and faded aluminum and now these. It's not like these are 'subjective' decisions or trendsetting either - these are outright design mistakes that would not pass at any industrial design institution. At least they won't last long - similar to the toilet seat laptops. Apple does make mistakes like any company - but this is very perplexing that it made it past the marketing / creative team who would have an eye for this. I'm wondering if Tim isn't making the call on these things to suit his own taste.
    What makes you think it’s a new design team? 

    Are you the arbiter of what acceptable design is?  What makes you think these have anything to do with Cook’s taste? Sounds like some heavy projection going on here. 
    Recall that, when Ive left Apple, the hot rumor was that it was driven by Cook's apathy toward design, and the fact that he wasn't as engaged with Ive as Jobs was.  Cook bad!  Drive out bored design genius says the internet!

    Now, people see some new design rumor they don't like, and it's Cook's fault, of course.

    Which is it?  Make up your minds.

    If there's one CEO who knows his role, and his limitations (as Dirty Harry says), it's Cook.  Not the kind to micromanage, or claim to sleep in tents to fix his self-inflicted problems.

    By most accounts, or at least reputable ones like Buffet's, he's an excellent leader for Apple.  He's no Spindler, or Ameilio, that's for sure.  Yet in the eyes of some, he's horrible, Apple is doomed, and it's all his fault!
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