Honkers

cia said:

Honkers said:

macxpress said:

I wish Valve would start making Mac games. Apple has more than enough graphics power in its M series of chips. They had some good ones like TF2, Portal/Portal 2, etc. 

They did.  Apple screwed them by shifting to 64 bit only.  And if Valve had put in the work to transition their catalogue then they'll be screwed again when Apple goes ARM only.  And doubtless a few years down the line there will be some other shift that will screw them again.  Valve aren't making significant money off their own catalogue, any investment they make in porting old titles is money down the drain, so they won't do that, because Apple will just screw them again and again.

Meanwhile, Half Life works on Windows just as well as it always did, because Microsoft, for all their (many) faults, really care about backwards compatibility.

They aren't screwed, they are lazy.  You can update an app to the newer formats in Xcode with a few checkboxes.  For most Dev's it's one days work or less.   I'd love to play portal again on Steam, but I don't have a Mac old enough anymore.

hexclock said:

timmillea said:

40 years ago, Apple was a far less global company. 'Super Bowl' is US-only and irrelevant to the vast majority of Apple's market. . 

The Super Bowl is watched world wide. 

macxpress said:

I wish Valve would start making Mac games. Apple has more than enough graphics power in its M series of chips. They had some good ones like TF2, Portal/Portal 2, etc. 

unbeliever2 said:

`...before Apple's Human User Interface Guideline writers coined the term that we today shorten to "app."`

This is complete nonsense. The term "application", denoting software distinct from the operating system itself, goes back to the 1950's at least.

AppleZulu said:

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MplsP said:

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foregoneconclusion said:

It only takes a few minutes to get 8-9 hours of charge using the port on the bottom. The complaints about the location were always inane. 

100%. It’s never been an issue for me. The BENEFIT of the charging port being in the bottom is nothing ever gets stuck in there. If it was on the back or front you wild over time get dirt, skin and lint stuck in the port. 

What's hilarious to me is that the critics seem to think that the placement of the charging port is either some kind of mistake or a form-over-function decision to not have a visible hole mucking up the sleek design.

The  reality is that the port was put on the bottom of the mouse quite intentionally, because it's a wireless mouse, and Ive didn't want users to leave it plugged in, using it as if it were a wired mouse. The OG Magic Mouse had to be flipped over to swap out the batteries. It doesn't take much longer than that maneuver to get a day's charge on the rechargeable one. 

It's not hard to imagine the next iteration won't have a port at all, and will simply charge via a watch charger and/or an iPhone MagSafe wireless charger. You won't be able to use it while it's charging that way, either. Whatever will people do?

What is hilarious to me is that Ive fanboys seem to thing that the placement of the charging port was to prevent accumulation of debris in the charging port when it was clearly a for over function decision to not have a visible hole mucking up the sleek design.
 
IF, as you assert, "Ive didn't want users to leave it plugged in, using it as if it were a wired mouse" it would have been because that would ruin his perceived aesthetic beauty of the design.  What we end up with is a design which looks horrible and is completely non-functional when charging.

Using it as a wireless mouse is literally its intended function. 

Do you get this worked up about not being able to drive your car while you're filling up the fuel tank? I've got news if you're thinking about driving an EV...

*sigh* another response that just doesn't get it. I suppose if you're still breathing the smoke that Jonny blows out of his arse then it addles the brain a bit.

The wireless keyboard can be used while plugged in. Why aren't you bitching about how piss poor of a wirelesas keyboard it is since you can actually use it while it's charging?

here's a news flash for you - every wireless device needs to charge. Even an EV. The tiny difference that you don't seem to comprehend about an EV is that it actually drives miles away from the power source while a wireless mouse stays inches away so there actually is a real and legitimate use case for keeping the mouse plugged in while you use it. Now if that gawdawful cord offends your sensibilities too much then fine, you can walk away and not work while it's charging so you don't have to be bothered by its presence but I prefer to use my devices to get work done.

If your EV’s batteries are old and don’t hold a charge and take a long time to recharge, would you complain that you can’t just leave it plugged in while you drive, or would you take care of the maintenance issue so that the car functions as designed?

If I could plug in an EV car and continue driving it on a wired route but the EV manufacturer had deliberately put the port on the underside of the car making that an impossibility then sure as hell I would be complaining.  The important factor that you seem to have overlooked here in your desperate grasping apologism is that computer mice and cars are ever so slightly different things.

Of course they are, and no metaphor is ever perfect, but the intended comparison is apt. MplsP described a mouse with a dysfunctional battery. That's the actual problem, not the location of the charging port. The EV comparison offers a little reductio ad absurdum to make the point that some wireless devices are better designed to not operate as a wired, tethered device. If you don't like the EV metaphor, how about a cordless drill? Why aren't those all designed so you can plug them into AC power when all your batteries are shot? Most worksites have proximate AC power, and power drills all used to be corded, so rather than replacing bum batteries (the actual problem), shouldn't wireless drill owners just complain angrily that they can't just plug them in and use them as wired devices, or should they maybe replace their defective batteries (the actual problem) in order to use their tool as intended? Note: I am aware that a wireless computer mouse and a cordless drill are different devices, so you don't need to tell me that as a way to avoid the point made by the comparison. A wireless mouse and a wireless keyboard are also not the same thing. One can operate as a stationary object and the other, by definition does not. 

The thing you seem to have overlooked is that I'm not an apologist for anything. I am simply having a bit of a laff at the fist-pounding anger directed at a design issue as inconsequential as not being able to use your computer mouse for two minutes while you top it off in preparation for a day's work. You don't like that design? Fine. Buy another device. They are readily available. Demanding that the device be redesigned because you can't make it work the way it was not intended to work is a silly thing. You characterize my "desperate grasping apologism," but I would counter that there's a lot of desperate grasping criticism going on here. The reasons given for moving the charging port on the device are all seemingly inconsequential, and certainly don't warrant the anger and frustration being used to criticize the design and demand the change.