crowley

I don't add "in my opinion" to everything I say because everything I say is my opinion.  I'm not wasting keystrokes on clarifying to pedants what they should already be able to discern.

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  • New MacBook Pros are coming Oct. 18 and the design remains a mystery

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    docno42 said:
    crowley said:
    The Powerbook 100 was co-designed with Sony.
    Yet Sony didn't come out with the design by themselves, especially before Apple.  Indeed I did some digging and the earliest I find a Sony branded laptop was the Vaio launch in 1996 - which seems implausible to me since the PB 100 debuted in 1991.   If those are accurate Sony didn't have their own laptops until five years (!) later. 
    Sure, but Apple also didn't do the things you said they did "single handedly".
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  • New MacBook Pros are coming Oct. 18 and the design remains a mystery

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    docno42 said:

    Apple single handedly created the trackbal (eventually trackpad)/wrist wrest layout that has dominated the laptop design language for decades.  Mouse input existed on laptops before Apple - either as external mice or trackballs awkwardly clipped onto the sides of laptops.  That went on for years before Apple introduced the PowerBooks.  
    The Powerbook 100 was co-designed with Sony.
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  • Steve Jobs wanted Dell to license Mac OS

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    skingers said:
    I don't believe this story.  Jobs was the guy that Killed Mac clones and made OSX upgrades free.  Money grubbing by putting his baby on the beigest of beige boxes just does not seem consistent with his demonstrated record.
    Vertical integration had burned Steve badly at Next, and the Mac was not in a healthy place; I'm not at all surprised that he was considering licensing options.  The clones didn't work, but a partnership with a major player like Dell would have been a very different proposition.

    And don't forget Steve's own words:
    If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth – and get busy on the next great thing.

    The man changed his mind.

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  • 'Fortnite' not coming back to iOS or Mac any time soon

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    I would assume you can get it on the Mac via the Epic Game Store though?  It's been withdrawn from the Mac App Store, not the Mac.
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  • Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop Studio, Surface Pro 8, Surface Duo 2

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    Microsoft previously said that the reason the Surface didn't have Thunderbolt ports was for security reasons.  I wonder why they changed their tune.
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