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elijahg said:

StrangeDays said:

docno42 said:

elijahg said:

I notice the price is the same as before, so rather than dropping the price due to cheaper CPU and increasing accessibility for people, they're just absorbing the extra profit. Great, that's the Cook Way. ߙ䦬t;/div>

You aren’t buying a collection of parts, your buying functionality.

If you don’t think the value proposition works for you, don’t buy it.  Frankly I’m surprised they didn’t raise the price - this little thing called inflation means they are already grossing less just from that alone.  

If you want cheap crap there are plenty of other vendors to choose from out there.  Have at it.   I have no problem paying for a better experience.  I originally typed out paying more for a better experience, but comparing previous Air to this one you aren’t paying more for a machine that appears to be better in every way.

Yup - damn those greedy Apple bustards!

Lol yeah these dudes crack me up, they’re used to lemonade stand economics and that’s about it. No real world experience in product, don’t grasp value propositions, likely have never run a business, etc etc.. Just IT nerds doin what they do best — bitchin’. 

You're the one with no real world experience, if Macs are such great value why is it a Mac with almost identical specs to a Windows machine is so much more expensive? A Dell XPS is cheaper than a Mac, has the same specs and is cheaper. And surely if "running a business" is a way to know value proposition, every business would be full of Macs, but they aren't. Why do you think that is?

All TCO results from all companies that have a mixed deployment show that for equivalent spec'd Macs and PCs, Mac's come out better value. They last longer (that's a bigger denominator in the equation) and have less support costs (that's a lower addition to the numerator). So whilst they may cost more upfront, they cost far less per year of ownership compared to the equivalent PC.

22july2013 said:

brianloftus said:

The last time I checked, Mac Office for MacOS did not support Visual Basic. Has that changed? That's why I never used Mac Office.

Just for your information, Office for Mac does now have the ability to execute a limited subset of the VBA for Office capabilities and has done for a couple of years. Complex macro code still won't execute properly or will error out, but it is quite capable for UI and data transformation purposes.

Like many others on here, I'm also considering dropping my Netflix subscription (or at least reducing the number of months per year I'm subscribed). Whilst their content library is vast, it has several annoying issues:

1. It's so hard to find anything worthwhile to watch;
2. Many of the shows I do like are delayed for their next seasons;
3. 4K streams aren't noticeably different to their HD versions.

With a new lockdown arriving perhaps I'll keep it until the next subscription review date of May 1st.

foregoneconclusion said:

carnegie said: That’s right. This isn’t about Republicans vs Democrats or conservatives vs liberals, it’s about libertarians vs authoritarians.

In the United States, the libertarians are the authoritarians. Their #1 priority for "liberty" is that citizens lose their Constitutional rights on private property. 

I don't think it's unique to any one country. There is always a sizeable minority that refer to themselves as "libertarian" but will only listen to those that agree with them. They then seek to impose their "libertarian" view upon everyone through any tools available - abolition of privacy for the sake of protecting you, etc, etc. In the end it doesn't matter what they call themselves: libertarian, liberal, populist, conservative, communist, fascist, ALL of them without fail end up as authoritarian at the extreme.

Because of this simple historical fact it is imperative that "we the people" retain control of government and protect ourselves through use of tools like encryption. Governments should be scared of the people, not the other way around, and it should be up to the people to determine if the requested erosion of their liberties is a price worth paying for any, so called, benefit for protection. So far as I can tell the rise of mass encryption hasn't lead to any meaningful increase in crime so the governments wanting this have a long way to go to convince me, for one, otherwise.

Gotta love the hypocrisy of the EU. As one of the largest "blocks" in the world it is surprising how few large technology companies are headquartered in the EU, consequently the lack of technical understanding comes across plain as day when they provide a statement that includes the following:

"give access to competitors and that they share data with rivals."

Having implemented the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") requirements into several companies there remains a broad misunderstanding of its far reaching impacts when it comes to data security, ownership, and retention, evidenced by the number of investigations taking place by the various Information Commissioners across the EU. The above statement only adds further evidence that the powers that be do not understand the implications of such proposed actions on their own GDPR legislation.

The EU should instead focus on fostering the growth of their own technology industry to provide a counterweight to the US and Chinese powerhouses. Often it's not the lack of talent within the EU, it's that the businesses are held back the plethora of regulations at both the EU and country level that must be complied with to operate. Contrary to the EU marketing hype there is really is no "single market" in many many areas - technology being one.