Applemos

tallest skil said:

makes game achievements effectively meaningless

Does… anyone else want to be the one to tell him? 
Now you’ve made me upset.

Gamer. It is a description of someone who plays a video game. It is not an identity. It is not a culture. Leftists have destroyed the world with “about me” identities. A delusion in which you think a word like ‘gamer’ has meaning. Where everything is just some description of something that no one is, just something found on the Internet. They give these words so much power because to them it is everything. It is your privilege. Your life and actions mean nothing. All that matters is those few words. “I am a pansexualfluid mongoose lesbian with my transpandaotherkin headmate Emperor Augustus, who is a Mexican trans* MtF.”

All this bullshit… A gamer is someone who plays video games. That is it. It isn’t silly political nonsense. It is me, coming home and relaxing with a strategy game or challenging myself with something else. It isn’t politics.

Everyone’s media serves a purpose. Sometimes it is comedic, sometimes action, sometimes erotic. Women sexualize men. It happens. Watch any romcom. We all seek the same things. Our media serves a purpose. Often when someone shouts that something is objectifying women, they are moaning about bad writing.

A gamer is not an identity. They made “nerd/geek” into an identity you could just name yourself and get magical identity points. A “girl gamer”. The Big Bang Theory did this. 2007 was the year that everything changed. A subculture became popular. Companies capitalized on it. It flooded with people. The new people were not fans of the old, but claimed they were “fans” who wanted it to change. How can you be a fan of something you hate? Companies only know one thing: economics. They only bow to pressures when it hurts their image not to. Journalists jumped on talking about controversy, as it sold well.

To be fair here, no matter how or what you think about the word 'gamer' it really doesn't matter. You are right in the sense that the word doesn't inherently describe an identity or culture, nor was it intended when the word was thought up. But that's the thing with languages, with time, and with a different use, words are enscribed with meanings, sometimes far from what originally intended for the words.

You may argue that there is no culture or identity attached to the word. But if the public uses it in such a way to describe either themselves or their culture and norms they are abiding by, the semantic meaning of that word will change.

xmhillx said:

Applemos said:

Back in the day I might have disagreed with you here. But what you say actually makes sense. I'm not one of those people wo believes that Steve Jobs was all-knowing and perfect. But under his leadership these type of questionable business-decisions was held off in order to facilitate real change when they were due.

Apple has a long history of creating inconvenience for their customers who adopt their technology first, but from a longer perspective they were forward-thinking. I do agree with you that the change is coming, no matter if it creates inconvenience or not.

The rumors now are a bit scattered, but some people are speculating that it might just be a pair of earpods with a lightning-connector. Or that they'll ship it with an adapter. I'm just asking if they are doing this one year too early, before they really introduce the game-changing technology that goes along with this change?

I'm thinking, just like you, BT-chordless airpods, and wireless charging. But that might be an entire year away.

Of course there's a LOT to concider in this decision. Not the least that 2/3 of the revenue of the company comes from the iPhone-production. They NEED to churn out new models each year to keep the investors happy. This is where I see a big difference in how the company is run, now compared to then. It used to be that they released new products when they really believed that they would improve peoples lives, not the shareholders wallets. A big departure...

I guess that's why we've seen some less than stellar products from Apple over the last few years.

Agreed. Apple could probably wait a year to ditch the 3.5mm port. But conversely, removing the port could be a differentiating factor from last year's model so they could claim that difference to satisfy investors' demand for new models yearly like you said. 

I'd be happy if they waited a year and hit a triple home run with removing the port, distance wireless charging, and Bluetooth 5.0 built in to both the phone and earphones. I guess we'll see in September, right. 

According to all the recent leaks it seems more or less set in stone that the 3,5mm jack is gone from now on. And yes, as you say, that could be argued to be one of these years USPs, but I'm not entirely sure that it is a selling proposition to begin with... The neverending quest for making the thinnest phone on the market has basically started to become laughable when there's a camera-bulge the size of a smaller mountain on the top of the phone.

The ONLY good thing that could come from ditching the port this year would be to make it water-resistant.

But yeah, that's my two cent, and we'll see in September

brakken said:

Good. Go suck it, ss.
Congratulations, TSMC!

Seriously?! You're THAT invested in the component-makers of the iPhone?

xmhillx said:

Applemos said:

Why would they release an inconvenience one year prior to the 'real' leap forward in technology? Just to prepp people into accepting the idea of no 3,5mm jack?

Yes, that's what I think. It's not "just" to prep people to accept the idea, because that would imply that Apple would be burdening you with drawbacks "just" for the sake of getting you used it the idea.

I think the A10 chip is going to be so power efficient, and the battery is going to be about 15% bigger, that Apple will thinks it's good enough to hold ppl over until next year; that you won't really need to charge and have earphones plugged in, or you won't have to worry about more power being drawn from lightning earphones.

So by next year, lightning earphones and headphones have saturated the market so much that ppl are used to the idea and Apple won't need to worry about quelling criticism at that point.

Look at that new Android phone that just came out with no 3.5mm jack, the M something? Only a single USB-C port. Phones are already being rushed out so they can claim they were the first to market. The industry is heading that way, it's more than just a rumor and it's not just Apple that's doing it. 

Back in the day I might have disagreed with you here. But what you say actually makes sense. I'm not one of those people wo believes that Steve Jobs was all-knowing and perfect. But under his leadership these type of questionable business-decisions was held off in order to facilitate real change when they were due.

Apple has a long history of creating inconvenience for their customers who adopt their technology first, but from a longer perspective they were forward-thinking. I do agree with you that the change is coming, no matter if it creates inconvenience or not.

The rumors now are a bit scattered, but some people are speculating that it might just be a pair of earpods with a lightning-connector. Or that they'll ship it with an adapter. I'm just asking if they are doing this one year too early, before they really introduce the game-changing technology that goes along with this change?

I'm thinking, just like you, BT-chordless airpods, and wireless charging. But that might be an entire year away.

Of course there's a LOT to concider in this decision. Not the least that 2/3 of the revenue of the company comes from the iPhone-production. They NEED to churn out new models each year to keep the investors happy. This is where I see a big difference in how the company is run, now compared to then. It used to be that they released new products when they really believed that they would improve peoples lives, not the shareholders wallets. A big departure...

I guess that's why we've seen some less than stellar products from Apple over the last few years.

Many years ago when I was only a teenager. I once stayed awake for 72 hours. I actually started hallucinating people and shapes in the corner of my eyes. Soo weird and creepy!