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  • Apple VP of industrial design details MacBook Air overhaul

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    MrBunside said:
    The Air added an SD card reader? 

    Not going to lie; that new Air is sexy AF. I use a 16" M1 Max as my daily driver but am contemplating getting an Air as a sidekick. Wholly irrational, but that FF and dark blue color are calling me...

    Correction, it’s  the Pro. I assumed both got it. But were there 2 separate designers for the Air vs. Pro? That would be strange.

    Assuming the same design team developed the Pro, my comment still stands. People complain about the lack of USB ports and they added a SD Card slot. *facepalm*

    bsimpsen said:
    Beats said:
    I highly disagree with adding an SD card when they could have added an extra USB port. Why please 2% of your users when you can have pleased 98%? This is Apple
    going backwards post-Jony.

    You can always find a USB-C to SD adapter but try to find an SD Card to USB-C Cable.
    After years of lugging around a USB SD adapter, I can finally leave it home. I am routinely in the field with my MacBook Pro, a drone, and my camera. I can now move cards between them without hassle. Back at my desk, I need only one USB/Thunderbolt port for my dock.

    I might be in the 2%, but so are 100% of my colleagues.

    “Lugging around” an SD card reader? Damn, how heavy is that little thing?

    Believe it or not, my colleagues need Floppy Disks sometimes.

    Should Apple remove a USB-C port for a Floppy Drive to please us?

    FU** NO

    We would rather have an extra USB-C port that can do a dozen things INCLUDING use as an external USB Floppy Disk drive.

    Beats said:
    I highly disagree with adding an SD card when they could have added an extra USB port. Why please 2% of your users when you can have pleased 98%? This is Apple
    going backwards post-Jony.

    You can always find a USB-C to SD adapter but try to find an SD Card to USB-C Cable.
    You don’t need another USB port now that they brought back MagSafe and have built in hdmi. 
    That freed up two ports. 

    Again it’s the 2% vs 98% thing. USB-C to HDMI was available day one.

     https://a.co/d/39RUEzK

    So we did lose a USB port. 100% of Macbook owners won’t be using the HDMI port 100% of the time they need a USB-C port. Again I’d say maybe 1-2% will need an HDMI port most of the time.

    Apple could innovate further and make a MagSafe USB C port and give us 3 more ports total.

    I don’t get this logic that we don’t need a USB-C port if it’s replaced by a single-utility port. 
    spheric

  • Valve Steam Deck review: Mac users can welcome back 32-bit games

    BeatsBeats
    Sega Game Gear is console quality?

    Well, maybe compared to Apple Arcade.
    williamlondondarkvader

  • Apple VP of industrial design details MacBook Air overhaul

    BeatsBeats
    I highly disagree with adding an SD card when they could have added an extra USB port. Why please 2% of your users when you can have pleased 98%? This is Apple
    going backwards post-Jony.

    You can always find a USB-C to SD adapter but try to find an SD Card to USB-C Cable.
    williamlondonzeus423sphericgrandact73

  • Jony Ive is no longer consulting for Apple

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    Every knockoff Apple product tried to mimic Apple because of Jony. From the Samsung Galaxy iPhoneys to the MateBook Pro and those pathetic Huawei knockoff AirPods.

    Unless someone is better than Jony at Apple, this is sad. I hope it’s not a personal thing between Tim and Jony.

    Jony Ive was quite literally the best industrial designer in history. I put Dieter Rams at #2 and Rams himself said Ive was way better than himself because he never had lines of people waiting to buy his products!
    retrogustoradarthekatkillroy

  • Apple TV+ receives 52 Primetime Emmy nominations, including 20 for 'Ted Lasso'

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    “Nothing to watch”

    Is that meme officially dead for Apple TV+? Breaking records 2 years in a row for a new service with a tiny amount of content in comparison is unbelievable.

    Hopefully Will Simp won’t ruin this one and take the spotlight away from Apple again.
    StrangeDays