darkpaw

Hang on...

Option 1: Buy Mac Pro with feet = Included in cost, so $0 extra
Option 2: Buy Mac Pro with feet ($0), buy wheels later = $699 extra ==> $0 + $699 = $699

Option 3: Buy Mac Pro with wheels = $400 extra
Option 4: Buy Mac Pro with wheels ($400), buy feet later = $299 extra, so $400 + $299 = $699

How is it more expensive to buy either kit afterwards?

I have an iPad mini 5, an iPhone 11 Pro Max, and a set of AirPods Pro. All three can be charged with the same Lightning cable. Does no one remember the time before the iPhone where your mobile phone came with a cable that would ONLY fit that particular phone? We've already moved to a standard cable, it's just that there are three or four of them, but at least there aren't 50 like there used to be.

What do we gain from all using a particular one? What happens when someone needs to improve on the cable, does everyone have to move to it at the same time? If not, how long do they get to make the switch? Surely that's creating waste?

Who gets to make the decision as to which cable wins out? What if three of the four decision-makers decide on a specific cable that three of them are currently using, who pays the costs for the other company to redesign their hardware and software to account for the new features or to develop workarounds for existing features that might be lost? What about contractual agreements between a phone manufacturer and their suppliers?

This is ill-thought-out.

Now, on the subject of seemingly acceptable e-waste... I have a LaCie external hard drive that broke within a year of purchase, and I had to send it back to the manufacturer (Seagate) in the Netherlands. They asked me to send only the drive and the power adapter, not any data cables, nor any power cables (the one that plugs into a wall power socket and then into the power brick).

Given that the hard drive originally came with FOUR power cables, I was surprised to see Seagate send me the replacement drive and FOUR replacement power cables. I now have EIGHT power cables and only need ONE of them.

This is from a company in the EU sending a product to another country within the EU - the Netherlands to the UK. Products going to the UK should be sent with the appropriate UK power cable, not three others I won't use. The replacement should NOT have come with any power cables since they didn't want me to send the originals back for replacement. Perhaps the EU would like to speak to Seagate? They've just created more cable e-waste than I've ever had in 12 years of owning iPhones.

hentaiboy said:

Apple can thank the Trump Bump 😉

Will you be assigning the blame to Trump when the stock price falls a bit, or is it only when it goes up that "Trump done it"?

frank777 said:

Does it make any sense to spend time recoding this 30-year-old software? No.

I can't believe the whole thing is 30 years old. They'll have been updating it to maintain compatibility with new version of OS X/macOS, and also to make use of various new features. It can only be a small portion of the software that they're having trouble with, and if so, what trouble are they having? Are they relying on third-party libraries that aren't compiled for 64-bit? There will likely be replacements. I don't think this was a good move on their part.

digitol said:

YUP! I just bought an app which was refunded for containing MALWARE on the APPLE APPSTORE! Yup that's right your mind controlled Apple zealots  ! I refuse to use the now F'd out term "FanBoys" ... as I was once one, but now have graduated to fan-man!  Fan of Apple, but I can be realistic and critical of them also. This is one of those times. So yea, be aware, that no matter what Apple sells you, question it. Contrary to what Apple wants you to think, the APplesStore is NOT safe. It's not 100% malware, spy etc safe. I guess in Apple's defense, nothing much is. Anyhow just be cautious. Have a good Holiday.

It was American "intelligence officials" who discovered the issue, not Apple. Are you suggesting Apple employ intelligence officials to determine if each app they review is doing something nefarious? Not gonna happen.