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durandal_1707 said:

Algr_Myx said:

Ugg. What was the point of inventing Thunderbolt? They took away firewire, and told us about all these amazing things it could do. Then shipped nothing but boxes that charge you $200 for a SATA port.

Thunderbolt can do a lot of really cool things. You can even buy an external PCI-Express expansion box, which would let you do pretty much anything. I was super stoked when TB came out. Unfortunately, the price for pretty much everything TB is just too high for any of it to matter, and it seems intrinsic to the technology itself (even the cables need fancy circuitry in them).

Yeah, you can buy a PCI-Express expansion box to fill with cards to add back the ports Apple removed from your computer. I'm not really criticizing Apple on this, some of the legacy stuff just had to go, but the promise of TB as a USB and Firewire replacement didn't seem to pan out. While, I love it for my external drives, if they didn't also have a USB3 interface on them, they would be useless to me to move from machine to machine in my current workflow. Thunderbolt for all it's potential and despite a few third parties embracing it, has just become Apple's proprietary display adapter. 

ericthehalfbee said:

Why do people always bring up speed?

The real reason to use Apple Pay is security by not having your card number available for possible skimming. The fact it's fast & easy is the icing on the cake. 

I like the convenience, but as someone who just recently had yet another bankcard compromised due to a merchant's refusal to support NFC, I'm making a point to go out of my way to use cash or Apple Pay only.

Why do we even need these announcements? Every retailer should support NFC type payments. There really just needs rot be a "Shame" List of those that don't support it or deliberately block a particular flavor like Apple Pay.

At this point is probably better to break it hard and get it over with than to drag out the torture of incremental updates breaking arbitrary things. I would rather spend 2 or 3 weeks refactoring a project to catch 80% what's been changed and deprecated in 3.0 than to spend 2 or 3 days every few weeks playing Russian roulette each time Xcode is updated.  While we don't have any massive projects utilizing Swift we have made an effort to do more and more with it and have had positive results in where we use it now. 

anome said:
I hope so, because having identical ports with different functions is a failure in basic usability, which is something Apple has always (back to the original Mac) been a leader on.
(There was a brief period where the two serial ports on a Mac had slightly different functions, but they fixed that.)
Also, 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports? Could be quite useful.
Of course, I'll believe it when I see it. Don't want to get my hopes up too high, lest I fall into the same trap as all those people going on about the iPhone leaks.