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Apple's Phil Schiller discusses 16-inch MacBook Pro keyboard design versus Butterfly
I just mapped the escape key onto caps lock on my MacBook Pro. Not sure why this was an issue for people.DuhSesame said:Symmetry? The escape key is much wider than the Touch ID, not to mention the old virtual escape was constantly blocked by other buttons.
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New smartphone sales legislation may hurt iPhone sales in Japan
Big discounts and multiyear contracts with high early termination fees are really just a way to buy a phone over time. Apple has dealt with the end of subsidies elsewhere by simply offering good financing options. This seems like no big deal.
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Editorial: CNBC is still serving up some really bad hot takes on Apple
No. It is insane to simply declaim that everything is a lie and there's no real information out there. There has never been more high quality journalism being done. And more clickbait journalism. Some sources have the sell-quality model, others just yell, "Be angry! Be afraid!" Even those sources trying for quality often contain a lot of inaccuracies and bias. But I can vouch that, in areas that I work in and am intimately familiar with, it's easy to find correct insightful mainstream reporting. If you have first-hand factual knowledge about a subject area, you are well situated to figure out who to listen to. The rejection of all authority and expertise is a road to disaster!Metriacanthosaurus said:What I find remarkable about blogs like this, is that on subject you know a lot about (like Apple, and their history, and their day-to-day performance) you can rail against the mainstream media and their outrageous fake news...yet you don't seem to have the faintest clue that this same phony nonsense applies to every single goddamn thing they broadcast.
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Bill Gates equates Steve Jobs' talent to 'casting spells'
Android is free, and Google makes its money from its services on Android. Unless Microsoft was ready to give their OS away for free, they weren't going to be the "standard non-Apple platform." Windows was also a poor fit for mobile. Selling Windows was Microsoft's greatest strength, until it wasn't.AppleInsider said:"The greatest mistake is whatever mismanagement I engaged in that caused Microsoft not to be what Android is," he said. "That is, Android is the standard non-Apple phone platform." -
Apple says Trump tariffs would 'tilt the playing field' in favor of competitors
georgie01 said:Meaningful change requires sacrifice....
What Trump is trying to fix is a good thing. He understands that making sacrifices, sometimes significant sacrifices, to accomplish good things is the most effective path. But we as a culture are too selfish to tolerate it.
Look at Jobs. He was a perfect example of sacrifice and hacking things off aggressively in order to push forward. And he was ridiculed for it, because we as a society hate change and loss.
Just sit tight. Trump is an effective businessman whether you like him or not. He may sometimes fail, but chances are he won’t. And if he doesn’t, then we’ll be in a better position as a country. Despite what the media and left likes to deceive the nation about Trump, he’s accomplished some extremely good things that other presidents have been too weak to do.Trump doesn't believe that a tariff is a tax on us. He hires the only economists in the world who agree with him that balance of payments with China is an issue, and who think that making China's economy weaker will improve this. There is a real issue related to IP, but this isn't going to do anything about that. Trump has thrown out the whole world structure of sensible low tariffs to act on his own uninformed whims. This is an f-ing disaster!
I agree that Trump is not weak. But the only thing he's been effective at is fooling people and destroying things.
