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wizard69 said:

netrox said:

Love how amateurs complain about the costs of Mac Pro... it's for Professionals making lots of money... not for amateurs living on a few hundreds. iMac Pro is for prosumers. Mac Pro is for professionals. iMac is for consumers (but they can do all the things that pros do but at a much slower speed). 

netrox said:

Love how amateurs complain about the costs of Mac Pro... it's for Professionals making lots of money... not for amateurs living on a few hundreds. iMac Pro is for prosumers. Mac Pro is for professionals. iMac is for consumers (but they can do all the things that pros do but at a much slower speed). 

Sure the Mac Pro is for professionals.   The mistake you make here is assuming that there is enough professionals out there to justify manufacture of this machine.  Frankly this is worse than the old cheese grater and will suffer the same fate.   

In case you are wondering that is sales so bad that Apple can’t justify the engineering expense to maintain it.  Apple needed a machine that would sell multiple thousands per month not a few hundred per month.  

The only fate the cheese grater suffered was being replaced by a new machine that didn't catch on. In its day, there was one cheese grater on every desk of every business I worked at/with. Going all the way back to the PowerMac G5 which shared the same case design, more-or-less.

By 2010 iMacs were capable enough that many creatives began using them instead.

To stay relevant, a Pro desktop really should be designed to completely destroy the all-in-one designs.

That's my opinion, anyway.

vukasika said:

$5000 Display LMAO!!!!

I have a $5000 Eizo on my desk right now. Pros will invest this much in an essential piece of equipment.

Now, my Eizo has a built-in color calibration device set to fine-tune the factory calibration every 80 hours or so, which this doesn't have (unless I've missed something)...but It looks like an amazing tool that I'd love to put on my desk next to a next generation Eizo.

sirozha said:

Two additional points. 

1. The new remote sensor works with Ecobee 3 and Ecobee 4 thermostats. The old censor is petty finicky IMHO. I often have random disconnects and reconnects of my six remote sensors. The new sensor has a longer range and much longer battery life. Therefore, it’s possible to improve the functionality of the older Ecobee thermostats by simply replacing the old remote sensors with the new ones, which cost significantly less than replacing the thermostats.  

I have also found the remote sensors problematic all around. They do great for temperature, but the occupancy sensor, aesthetic, and stability on the old plastic stand were pretty poor. My best experiences with the sensor are in places where it’s hard mounted under a cabinet or directly to a wall. 

I might pickup a couple of the new the new ones for areas where the old sensor falls down on the job. 

Apples rules are common sense to me but this should have been standardized 15 years ago. More evidence Apple doesn't care about Podcasts.

Rather than “Apple doesn’t care” I think this is evidence “Apple didn’t care”

The fact that they are tightening any policy relating to podcasts is evidence the do care now.

Why now is anyone’s guess. Spotify? Changing listener habits? I listen to more podcasts than I used to. Business reasons? Podcasts don’t cost Apple anything (no royalties). 

jungmark said:

Why would they want to remove episode numbers?

I doubt they want to abolish episode numbers entirely. The simplest answer is they want to separate episode number from the title field. I haven’t done the legwork to check, but there must be another metadata field for episode numbers. Then podcast players can choose how to display the episode number field, likely [episode number field] - [episode title field]. 

Does anyone remember the sad state of MP3 file naming back in the pre-iTunes world? They often started with a track number which carried through to the song title field in the player software. It was ugly and an organizational disaster. 

Structuring the metadata is smart.