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  • New rumor claims 2018 iPad Pros will be smaller, drop headphone jacks

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    dewme said:
    Dropping the conventional headphone jack makes sense to bring the iPad into alignment with the iPhone. The question of whether to pack your dongle or not to pack your dongle to accommodate conventional hookups should apply to all of your iDevices. Consistency is king. Macs should logically be next.
    I thought they dropped it from the iPhone for space reasons and to make the device more waterproof. iPad has plenty of space and isn’t likely being used around water so removing it makes no sense. I have some decent JBL wireless earbuds but when I use them while watching video on YouTube for example the audio and video are never synced up. Not a great experience.
    baconstangelijahgAlex1N

  • Apple design head Jonathan Ive to talk at Wired's 25th anniversary

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    entropys said:
    entropys said:
    entropys said:
    Unless he can come up with a user fixable Mac using current technology I can’t hear him.
    What kind of DIY repairs do you do to your tablet? Your phone? Your television? Microwave? Car? Ah yeah, none.

    Appliance computing is here to stay. DIY tinkering isn’t high on their feature set for the customer base. Get a PC and go crazy.
    A tablet costs a few hundred dollars.  If it breaks you just get a new one.  A high end MBP costs well over AUD$5k. In fact spec it out and it is over $7k.  These should have a decent shelf life because of that, have a degree of upgradability, and minor stuff not require shipping off somewhere to get fixed or replaced. You know, a proper balance between liberal arts and engineering.  

    Ive just needs a handler to restore balance to the Mac.
    Ive doesn’t run hardware engineering. It’s highly doubtful he (or he alone) decides whether Macs will be user upgradeable/repairable. If anything it’s probably product marketing or finance making the decision as Apple makes a ton of money off of RAM and other upgrades.
    You realise that one of the traditional strengths of Apple design is the coherent integration of great design and engineering, from hardware to software.  It’s the main reason why people really love macs.

    It’s also why people are bitching. Apple has been so good at getting the balance right in the past that it is expected. And because at the moment the balance at that intersection of engineering and liberal arts is currently out of whack with too much emphasis on form to the detriment of other attributes.

    edit: Ive was at his best when he had Steve Jobs to keep him grounded. That supply chain guru can’t work out the right frame of reference to manage an artiste.
    Again, I’d argue Phil Schiller’s product marketing team makes a lot of these decisions. They certainly make decisions on what features to include and what price to set. I think it’s highly unlikely Jony Ive is deciding how many ports a laptop will have or if the RAM is user replaceable or not. I’m not saying the guy doesn’t have power inside Apple (he got a gold Apple Watch after all) but I think some of the decisions attributed to him are coming from other parts of the organization.
    Alex1N

  • Apple design head Jonathan Ive to talk at Wired's 25th anniversary

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    canukstorm said:
    rogifan_new said:
    entropys said:
    StrangeDays said:
    entropys said:
    Unless he can come up with a user fixable Mac using current technology I can’t hear him.
    What kind of DIY repairs do you do to your tablet? Your phone? Your television? Microwave? Car? Ah yeah, none.

    Appliance computing is here to stay. DIY tinkering isn’t high on their feature set for the customer base. Get a PC and go crazy.
    A tablet costs a few hundred dollars.  If it breaks you just get a new one.  A high end MBP costs well over AUD$5k. In fact spec it out and it is over $7k.  These should have a decent shelf life because of that, have a degree of upgradability, and minor stuff not require shipping off somewhere to get fixed or replaced. You know, a proper balance between liberal arts and engineering.  

    Ive just needs a handler to restore balance to the Mac.
    Ive doesn’t run hardware engineering. It’s highly doubtful he (or he alone) decides whether Macs will be user upgradeable/repairable. If anything it’s probably product marketing or finance making the decision as Apple makes a ton of money off of RAM and other upgrades.
    Jony Ive's design group is probably the most influential group inside all of Apple. If they wanted user-upgradeable devices, I'm willing to bet they would get it.
    People say that but I’m not so sure it’s true, especially now that Steve’s gone. I would argue the most important group inside Apple is Phil Schiller’s product marketing team. Anyway this isn’t something unique to Apple. Microsoft’s Surface line gets just as bad of not worse ratings from iFixit.
    mwhiteAlex1N

  • Apple design head Jonathan Ive to talk at Wired's 25th anniversary

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    entropys said:
    StrangeDays said:
    entropys said:
    Unless he can come up with a user fixable Mac using current technology I can’t hear him.
    What kind of DIY repairs do you do to your tablet? Your phone? Your television? Microwave? Car? Ah yeah, none.

    Appliance computing is here to stay. DIY tinkering isn’t high on their feature set for the customer base. Get a PC and go crazy.
    A tablet costs a few hundred dollars.  If it breaks you just get a new one.  A high end MBP costs well over AUD$5k. In fact spec it out and it is over $7k.  These should have a decent shelf life because of that, have a degree of upgradability, and minor stuff not require shipping off somewhere to get fixed or replaced. You know, a proper balance between liberal arts and engineering.  

    Ive just needs a handler to restore balance to the Mac.
    Ive doesn’t run hardware engineering. It’s highly doubtful he (or he alone) decides whether Macs will be user upgradeable/repairable. If anything it’s probably product marketing or finance making the decision as Apple makes a ton of money off of RAM and other upgrades.
    JWSCAlex1N

  • Where is Apple's innovative iPad, MacBook Pro hardware to rival Microsoft's Surface?

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    corrections said:
    clexman said:
    You realize that the Surface line was created to demo what Microsoft's platform was capable of, not to take over the laptop and tablet business. For them to make $1B off of sample hardware is pretty impressive.

    What, exactly, does Surface "demo" that's unique to Windows PCs? And why would Microsoft spend billions of dollars on product development and advertising, call its corporate strategy "devices and services" (not "demos of stuff OEMs should make") merely to show Windows OEMS how to build PCs?

    The idea that Microsoft and Google are not really trying to sell the hardware they are obviously very diligently and desperately trying to sell is so asinine it makes you look incredibly foolish to repeat it. You really think Microsoft built out a retail store network at incredible cost just to show PC makers how they could alternatively create PCs? 

    That's called a "reference design" and Microsoft's been that for decades. Building its own hardware is clearly not a brochure for PC makers. 
    It is a dumb argument but so is the knock on Surface for not being a huge growth business. Neither iPad nor Macs are really growth businesses either.
    williamlondon