volcan

I'm running a mid 2012 MBP 15 with 8 GB RAM a 500 GB SSD, 2.6 Ghz i7.

I should consider myself a power user of sorts since I routinely have PS, IL, ID, AI all running at the same time along with both Chrome and Safari as well as a few other minimal applications, and quite honestly it works very well. My MBP is not my main machine. That would be my iMac 5K, but for a month at a time on the road the MBP works just as well as when brand new. I have absolutely no motivation to upgrade unless it is no longer supported or dies which I don't expect anytime soon   . Macs just last a long time.

tzeshan said:

volcan said:

joogabah said:

tallest skil said

P.S. Stop fucking stealing our IP.

"our IP"?  How is it yours?

I don't see anything wrong with that part of his statement because the technology is in a large part a result of grants funded by the US government to US universities. I don't know about Tallest but I pay US federal income taxes so collectively much of the US IP was originally made possible by "our" contributions.

This is generalization of patents. 

According to the poster I replied to, he had an exception to the usage/definition of the word "our" in the original comment. I don't. My remarks have very little to do with actual patent law but more a philosophy of inclusiveness of the American effort to protect what we paid for. People who steal anything have no regard for law, international or domestic. 

In some part I blame the US universities because they are greedy for tuition dollars from foreign students especially from China and they teach them the advanced technology the US has and then they return to their country only to use it against us.

flydog said:
It has nothing to do with adhering to standards. There is no web standard for honoring "request desktop site."  All that button does is change the user agent in the mobile browser to a desktop use agent.  But these days most websites are optimized for devices based on the detected screen width and device orientation, not on the user agent, which is the correct way to implement the behavior.

This is correct. I am a web programmer and I find it annoying when developers constrain the viewport size for iPhone. It is better if the the page loaded initially to the viewport size but allowed you to zoom. Responsive layout design is clever but a nuisance sometimes. My vision is not that great and I want to zoom in order to read the small text.

melgross said:

But, realistically, things don’t look as good as some might believe. If 15-20% of Apple’s yearly iPhone sales come from switchers, and Apple’s total iPhone sales are only increasing very slightly, such as the 3% last year, what does that say about iPhone users overall? Are they switching to android?

Perhaps they are keeping their iPhones longer. That is at least the case with me. I'm still using an iPhone 6 which is working perfectly. The quality of iPhones is outstanding. I used to upgrade every two years during the subsidy era because you paid the same monthly fee regardless if you were on or off contract, so might as well get a new phone. Now I plan to keep this phone until it is no longer supported or it dies.

Rayz2016 said:
But of course, you don't know this for sure, because you have no idea why Mac sales are staying steady or increasing in volume. You say that if Apple did this or that then sales would be even better, but you haven't considered that the reason that Apple, to a certain extent, has bucked the trend with regard to stagnating PC sales is because more people actually want thinner, cooler and lighter laptops.

And you shouldn't ignore the fashion element that makes Mac much cooler than PCs. Most college age or entry level career young adults and even many millennials don't need cutting edge performance. These customers make up a much larger base for Apple than the power users. The year old tech in Macs works just fine for them. They, for the most part aren't using half of the capabilities that the machines offer anyway. Along with the convenient integration with their iPhones, and Apple watches they're making a fashion statement that fits their lifestyle.