ElCapitan

StrangeDays said:

So what are you saying? Apple should stop standing up for equal rights for all because people in your country are hateful bigots?

What I'm saying is that people across the globe are to a large extent hateful bigots despite the advances that we have seen particularly here in western European countries. His standing up will make people hate the company even more (often for irrational reasons) and hurt their business bad over time. 

What he does on his private time is one thing, but not in the name of the company and the brand. 

Preserving the integrity of Apple's brand and reputation is more important than the sexuality of some employees. 

commentzilla said:

I guess I don't understand why having no USB-A ports is such a big deal.

The wisdom of using a portable the system for a full swap of ports is beyond naive for a couple of reasons:

• A portable - particularly used in a professional manner, is likely to encounter a significantly more diverse connection environment than a stationary system, where you might have to connect to a wide variety of screens, projectors, keyboard, pointing devices and storage solutions that exist in non Apple centric businesses and institutions. Even in a transition period Apple centric environments will for a long time be dominated by old connector types. 

• The lack of a built in ethernet port is a security issue in itself

• A portable system should be as light as possible, but shedding all previously established ports force the user to carry a number of dongles and even a dock in many cases, adding both weight to the overall load someone have to carry, in addition to adding clutter and inconvenience compared to a system you can plug into directly.

• All additional connectors and docks adds to the overall cost of the system making the total unattractive to a portion of the potential customers. 

Soli said:

It took forever to get rid of Serial and Parallel to get USB to become the norm>

No it didn't because no Macintosh ever had them in the first place. Macs had LocalTalk (which was driven by an, at the time, expensive RS-422 chipset) and ADB ports before Steve Jobs launched the iMac with USB in 1998.

For connecting disks and scanners, the Macs always had SCSI internally and externally till they gradually were replaced by FW-400 and 800 for external connections and phased out for internal drives when Apple switched to Intel processors.

The first iPod had FW-400 because the then current USB-A was not up to the task for fast syncing with the Macs.

What happened in the PC market is pretty much irrelevant for an Apple centric discussion.

ktappe said:

ElCapitan said:

make the company seem fruity

You were doing a pretty good job up until this point of hiding your political leanings, but "fruity" is a major tell-tale sign that you're anti-gay. Here's the thing; Tim Cook is gay and was outed. He *had* to admit it and from that point forward he had little choice but to be an LGBTQ leader or he would have taken flack for abdicating his responsibility.

You have no idea what and who I am, but in international dealings fruity might make a heck of difference. 

The entire point about the expression is that a very large section of the world "Don't care about how they do it in California"!  
If he "had to be" a LGBTQ leader - fine let him be that locally, but not on the world stage. Apple customers pretty much don't care about what he is apart from being a person who carries the legacy of Apple forward.

Soli said:

It's insane for someone to suggest that an employee is unhappy with Cook as CEO because they no longer charge $999 for macOS Server and have moved nearly all of its features into the default macOS build for all customers.

Since you are the only one who have suggested that, you just characterized yourself.