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  • New 'professional' Mac mini, low-cost MacBook refresh coming soon says report

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    my guess is more streamlined monolithic body to be better stacked, or racked, separate graphics card than the built-in Intel graphics, and that's probably it (not eliminating all the useful ports qualifies as a pro feature nowadays, do that one also)
    baconstangwatto_cobra

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

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    StrangeDays said:
    AI_lias said:
    Oh crap, more bullshit from Ive.
    It’s fun to mock what we don’t understand.
    I do understand some things: when design favors not the user, but the vendor (because you can find a potential way the vendor profits from it): dongle hell for iPhones and Macs. Then back panel of iPhone X that is more expensive to replace than front panel. A keyboard key that needs the entire top case to be replaced, including the battery. 
    Others for which there are no ways for Apple to profit: "designing yourself in a corner" on the Mac Pro (and that's the most charitable way of putting it). These are design principles and convictions taken to the absurd. Ignoring users' most asked for feature: more battery life. That's why I don't care for philosophical design BS from Ive.
    avon b7Alex1N

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

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    Oh crap, more bullshit from Ive.
    SpamSandwichAlex1N

  • Samsung continues attacking iPhone and Apple Stores in ad campaign

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    Agree with the headphone jack ad: just got off a longer conference call, and I had the dongle connected to not run out of battery while on the call. Removing the headphone jack was not a good move. I don't care who else removed the headphone jack. Talking on the phone with headphones and charging at the same time is a basic use case, not a rare exception. It's an eye-sore and inconvenient. 
    IPD

  • Chinese iCloud data moved to servers operated by state-owned telco

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    lkrupp said:
    mike54 said:
    The NSA snoops on data/products in the US, that's a fact. Cisco products come with NSA approved backdoors. Microsoft also works closely with the NSA, hence China has asked to see the source code for it and there a special edition for the Chinese gov. No one should be complaining because another country does the same. China does not make US laws, nor should US make Chinese laws.
    Ah, the good old “everybody does it” argument. When’s the last time a U.S. or EU citizen was executed for writing something critical about their government?
    Exactly what I was thinking. Snooping by the US (which should also be assumed) is not the same as snooping by China or Russia.
    watto_cobra