Detnator

Peza said:

Cook is loved because he generates masses of profit, and whilst he does that the city and share holders will love him, they couldn’t care less about anything else he does like ignore human rights in foreign lands to mass produce products cheaply, their is no conscious when it comes to money and power. Personally I don’t like him, he’s awful to watch in the presentations. Steve was a great presenter and knew how to convincingly talk about a product passionately, Craig’s good also as he has a sense of humour and brings it out in stage, but Cook no, he’s just annoying and comes across as the arrogant man he most likely is.

Oh and I would not state the ‘iPhone’ was the it’s successful consumer electronics device of all time, I would claim the mobile phone was, also wasn’t it the massive success that saved Apple from bankruptcy under Steve Jobs? An awful lot of things under Cook have not gone well.

Wow. You could not possibly be more off base with this rant.  

Zeebler said:

appleuserr95 said:

Tim Sweeney is the devil. He wants to use apples devices for free. Maybe he should develop his own device that he can sell on. or go to Walmart and ask to sell his products in all their stores for free. totally with apple.

They aren’t Apple’s devices once they are purchased by customers. We don’t rent the products. 

This would be the same as a car manufacturer only allowing it to be fuelled at gas stations owned by them. Charging other cars a 30% premium to fill at their stations.  Voiding the warranty and bricking the vehicle if they fill up at a different station. 

It’s a monopoly. Pure and simple. We don’t allow these sorts of monopolies for numerous reasons. 

If Apple was only making an insanely gross amount of money from this model - no problem. But they are rolling in astronomical insanity amounts of cash and the most valuable company in the history of the world. 

The lawsuit isn’t going Apple’s way - not even close. The judge has already stated she doesn’t buy Apple’s arguments at all. There is a good article on Forbes about it. 

I am willing to take the risk of installing my own software - just like I have on my Mac for 30 years with no problems. I’m an adult, I can make my own decisions. I don’t need Apple telling me what to do with my property. And it is my property. I buy it, I maintain it, I insure it, it’s mine. I can glue diamonds to it and sell it for more if I want, I can drop it from a bridge to watch it smash. Apple holds the rights to the OS and patents on the tech, that’s it. They shouldn’t have the right to tell me what I can and can’t do with it and how I use it and when. 

They aren’t going to win this. 

To you and everyone else with this idiotic “it’s my device” argument…  

Yep, It’s your device, sure. And as long as you don’t use any of the firmware, OS, and software that are Apple’s IP and NOT yours then sure, you can do whatever you like with it. 

On another note, there's another problem I often have with this site.  When I hit a link in a comment, say, and that switches to that page, then I hit the back button to come back to where I was, 9 times out of 10 it takes me back to a completely different page (always further ahead I think) in the comments than the page I came from originally.

Here's a guess at what might be causing this: I suspect this site has a "take me to the first unread comment" feature.  Maybe I'm experiencing this because at some point in the past I'd read further than what I'm looking at when I click on the link and so when I hit the back button it does take me back to where I came from first, but then decides to switch me to that other point I read to in the past.

If it's not that then who knows.  Either way it's pretty annoying.  If it's a bug, then it'd be great if that could be fixed, or if it's anything like what I've described above then perhaps you could provide that "take me to the first unread comment" as a preference not a requirement (I'd turn it off).  Sometimes I like to re-read comments, so I really want the site to take me to wherever I've asked to go, not some place it "smart"  thinks I want to go instead.

theotherphil said:

I emailed appleinsider last week about those auto playing “Appleinsider TV” videos. I’m not a fan of websites presuming that I

a) want to watch the same video in every article that I read,
b) am in a situation where unexpected noise and visuals is acceptable or
c) want to use my available data/ bandwidth on such a thing.

 As Apmiller, it was a usability nightmare on my 11” iPad. Sorry guys, but I also used 1Blocker to remove that element.

Yes, I second this also.  It's obnoxious and rude to force this stuff on us.  Most sites have an "auto play" toggle that we can turn on or off to our liking.

I understand this site is paid for by ads but there's a line.  Feel free to place ads to your heart's content interspersed or whatever else.  I get it.  That's what funds the site.  No problem.  But have some respect.

Do NOT auto play videos and do not force them elsewhere on the screen once I've scrolled past it.  If I've scrolled past it I'm not interested, and your persistence only makes me mad and then I'm going to do things like go out of my way to remove your affiliate code from the link if I do actually find one of your ads interesting.  It's a trust and respect issue. 

For example:  I buy Apple stuff, at a premium compared to everyone else's products, and I go out of my way to buy directly from Apple whenever possible, even when the same Apple product is cheaper elsewhere.  I do all this partly because I appreciate the support, respect, trust, returns policy (and often they've extended return windows and warranty periods for me) and everything else that Apple includes and inspires in their values and products that other companies don't have.  Sure their products cost more, but when you buy Apple products you get a lot more than just the product.

Similarly, you guys show me the same respect and I'll go out of my way to be a "customer" of this site and help you make the most of your business model, through me (which in this case means things like buy stuff through your affiliate links even if I see it somewhere else, or whatever else I can do).  And I'll do the reverse if you don't.  Guys, consider your audience here (ie. people like me who appreciate the extras and are happy to pay for it).

Just my 2c.

darkvader said:

lkrupp said:

Apple techies, being what they are, will have an absolute hissy fit if the next Mac uses an M1. The M1 is already yesterday’s news, obsolete, deficient, underpowered and overpriced... and it only been around less than a year. 

It was obsolete, deficient, underpowered, and overpriced when it was released. I mean, seriously, a processor released in 2020 that couldn't address more than 16GB RAM?  A processor released in 2020 that could only handle two Thunderbolt/USB ports?  A processor that can't even handle a dedicated GPU so you get nothing but its underpowered integrated graphics?  It's fine for a toy like the iPad, but it doesn't belong in a computer.

Apple shouldn't have used that junk in last year's computers.  It definitely doesn't belong in computers that haven't even been released yet.

You’re hilarious.  Have you actually used one?

I don’t give a damn about all your specs and numbers.  There’s stuff called engineering and efficiency and so on that you don’t seem to understand.