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  • Carbon fiber inserts could create ultra-thin MacBook display

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    It seems as if the Mac fans here are unaware of how Apple computers (not their other stuff, I believe, and certainly not Apple’s “services”) are losing market share, and seriously irritating their user base. The reason: they’re no longer the top-tier products they used to be, which were worth the price. The innards are no longer bestest/fastest/most robust, and the capabilities have not just not kept up, they’ve depreciated. Better, more capable computers can be had for less from Windows competitors. Probably many factors are behind this - the thinness obsession, the iOS-likeness come first to mind - but it’s certainly not because they’re more attractive. Me? I still like my years-old MacBook Air, but much as I’d like something newer and more capable from Apple, there’s not currently a MacBook I’d want to have, most especially at the price they’re asking. I’m also very disappointed at Apple’s quality control, my impression being that consumers are increasingly being used as beta testers. Finally, Catalina’s a deal-breaker for me, too.

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  • Carbon fiber inserts could create ultra-thin MacBook display

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    Agree with Jdw. If these fibers make the screen better, more robust or whatever, good. But Apple's obsession with thinner has made MacBooks worse. Thicker = more space to fit all the hardware a serious Mac user needs, and top-tier Macs must have. Today's new offerings are becoming increasingly anorectic - and anorexia is life-threatening.
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  • How to master Dark Mode in iOS 13 & iPadOS

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  • Editorial: Steve Jobs would have been proud of Tim Cook's Apple News & Apple TV event

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    kevin kee said:
    smaffei said:
    The fact that this opinion piece exists means that the fanboy base is worried. 

    They should be.
    Nonsense.

    The only time we would be worry when Apple stop trying.
    Apple hasn't stopped trying to be a successful company, but they've surely stopped trying to be a leading computer - MAC - company. I am worried, because I fear the day will come when someone will say "Remember the MAC? I think Apple used to make a computer like that once."
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  • Editorial: Steve Jobs would have been proud of Tim Cook's Apple News & Apple TV event

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    This piece is a crock, and I have no idea why it was written - unless it was dictated by someone in Apple marketing.

    First - Jobs’ interest was hardware - its design and user features. Sure, he was a businessman, too, and all this other stuff might have appealed to him, too, but there’s no clue it was ever his love, or dream.

    Second - nobody but Jobs could know what he would have thought, but Jobs is dead, and he died long before this stuff became headline material.

    Third - who cares what Jobs would have thought? What people, Apple customers and potential customers, think today is arguably more important, and what they think has absolutely nothing to do with what Jobs might have thought. They see what’s there and whether it appeals to them, period. The customers for Apple’s digital products may be happy, Apple stockholders ought to be happy (for now), but surely Apple’s hardware customers are getting more and more frustrated, p***ed off, and wondering if or how much longer they still want to stay with Macs; and new computer buyers will often find the Window competition more attractive.

    I’m afraid Apple is on the road to stop making Macs. Maybe they’re thinking of splitting into two or even three divisions, Macs and the rest (this might even be a good idea). And, to get back to Steve Jobs, I think he’d feel betrayed.

    ----- Ah, I just noticed it's April Fools!!! Now I understand why this piece was written.
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