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Apple Park's Steve Jobs Theater includes rotating elevators, retracting demo room wall
It would really be cool if it could move laterally like the turbolift in Star Trek.
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(Un)wired for Sound: Using Sonos speakers as a whole-home, Apple-connected audio system
I bought a Play:5 for Christmas and I love the speaker. But I don't care for the software. Unless the music you want to play is accessible through the Sonos app you cannot play it unless you use the analog line in. Which means you need an AirPlay device like an Airport Express or a Bluetooth adapter if you want to stream music from you Mac, iPad or iPhone. But this seems to defeat the advantage of having a WiFi connection to the speaker which the Sonos App uses. Personally I would prefer to just have a driver installed on the Mac, iPad or iPhone that would allow WiFi access to the speaker no matter what application you want to port the sound from. I use an Airport Express and I have occasional dropouts for some reason I haven't looked into yet. I assume the WiFi connection would be more robust but I haven't really tested it because the music I mainly listen to is not accessible through the Sonos app.
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All-new Mac Pro with modular design, Apple-branded pro displays coming in 2018
Actually in business there is a concept called the "majority fallacy" which suggests going after niche markets can be highly lucrative.DavidAlGregory said:So Apple is incapable of walking and chewing gun at the same time? How long does it take to design a tower that serves the market- we do not give a crap about styling. Take the Pre-Trashcan form factor and update it for the current market- that should take a small team little time.
A company as big and well heeled as Apple should be able to serve a select small market and waste gobs of money on crap like Animated Balloons on Text Messages and Facebook integration. Serving specialty markets is common in business all the time- you do not have to make a killing on every product line. The line should have been kept up to date all along and the Black Trashcan was a tragic mistake.
In Medicine, Hospitals and Clinics commonly offer necessary services that are break even at best because it is in the best interest of the customers. Mammography is a prime example- unless you do huge volume you will never make a dime providing the service, but it is done anyhow. Apple makes truckloads on iPhones and should be able to subsidize the high end pro market.
