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  • Apple resurrects MagSafe branding for line of iPhone 12 accessories

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    Detnator said:

    polymnia said:
    Perhaps the new slate of MacBooks & MacBook Pros will offer the triumphant return of MagSafe?
    Nope.  I mentioned in another post how I'm always hesitant to say "Apple won't..." but I'm pretty sure Apple won't bring MagSafe in anything like the form it was, to their laptops.  

    For people who want it, there's plenty of great options here:  https://www.google.com/search?q=usb-c+magsafe

    Perhaps Apple will bring out their own version of one of those, but they're not bringing any of the old ports (including MagSafe) physically back to their laptops.  Rightly or wrongly their approach is that USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 (and whatever's coming next with USB4/TB4/etc) handles everything and provides the greatest flexibility, whereas for every "legacy" port they add, something else has to give for it.

    If we're going to say "Well they don't have to make them so thin and light" then I'll say "Great, then Apple, go ahead and make them bigger, and then add more battery, RAM, storage, cores, thunderbolt ports, better gpu, or anything else before you add MagSafe or any of the other legacy ports."  Which is exactly what they did with the 16" and that's proven a huge winner.
    You may be right, this may not happen. To be perfectly clear, though, I didn’t mean classic MagSafe would return. I was thinking about iphone-style MagSafe for MacBooks. Not sure how that might work, but Apple has some pretty interesting hardware concepts from time to time. 
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  • Apple resurrects MagSafe branding for line of iPhone 12 accessories

    polymniapolymnia
    Perhaps the new slate of MacBooks & MacBook Pros will offer the triumphant return of MagSafe?
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  • Apple announces ProRAW image format for iPhone 12 Pro

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    Huge for iPhone photography! 

    While RAW format capture has been been available a while, it was sad to give up the special Apple software processing to get RAW. It will be incredible to get the processing latitude of RAW while retaining the propriety ISP that was previously exclusive to the Apple Camera app. 
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  • YouTube restricts iOS 14 picture-in-picture feature to Premium subscribers, 4K not availab...

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    rob53 said:
    polymnia said:
    rob53 said:
    bsnjon said:
    I know that it is hard to accept, but YouTube’s product is very bad and people should stop using it. 
    What’s its replacement?
    Vimeo? Creators pay to host their video. No ads. No weird technical roadblocks designed protect ad revenue. 
    Youtube is the other way around, creators get paid by views and subscribing. I hate the ads but lots of people have turned youtube into a paying job. Vimeo is nice but it doesn't anywhere near the number of videos or views that Youtube has. 
    You didn’t specify that the business model had to match. It certainly has the technical chops to physically replace YouTube. Which answers the question asked. 
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  • YouTube restricts iOS 14 picture-in-picture feature to Premium subscribers, 4K not availab...

    polymniapolymnia
    rob53 said:
    bsnjon said:
    I know that it is hard to accept, but YouTube’s product is very bad and people should stop using it. 
    What’s its replacement?
    Vimeo? Creators pay to host their video. No ads. No weird technical roadblocks designed protect ad revenue. 
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