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Engineer makes dual-port iPhone by adding USB-C
I don't see the point. If you're going to go to the trouble of adding USB-C, it would make more sense to rip out the worthless proprietary connector while you're at it.Even better, add a nice non-proprietary headphone jack.
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Apple's iPhone hardware subscription could arrive by March
Ugh, what a horrible idea.Why would anybody want to pay for a phone in perpetuity? I'll keep doing it right, I'll buy a phone and own it.
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Apple's Studio Display doesn't shine in the light of competition
Apple's monitor prices are highway robbery. There's no way I'd ever buy or recommend a client buy an Apple monitor these days.
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Macintosh launched on Jan 24, 1984 and changed the world -- eventually
nht said:Raskin’s original vision of the Mac sucked. It would have been text based with no mouse and no GUI.
The Canon CAT was his vision and lacked GUI and mouse. He may have been to Xerox PARC first but completely rejected everything they learned.
The one button mouse was obviously the wrong choice given that everyone can keep track of what two buttons do...IF it was his contribution, and some folks dispute that, it was another poor one.
Raskin also had a tendency to “embellish” his accomplishments. He, as Andy once commented, was NOT the father of the mac but it’s strange uncle...one with a nearsighted vision of where computing would go.
He’s another example of an engineer under Jobs that did well at Apple and never did anything really relevant again after...and IMHO his primary contribution to the Max was hiring Atkinson and promoting Hertzfeld from service to development.The one button mouse was and is the right choice. It was so much the right choice that Apple still ships it today.Out of the box, the Magic Mouse that you get with a new Macintosh is configured to be a one button mouse. Sure, most of us immediately reconfigure it to two button and then promptly forget about it, but one button is all you need to operate a Macintosh, it was designed that way from the very beginning, and millions of users are very happy with that.And your assertion that "everyone" can keep track of what two buttons do is flat out false. I've got dozens of clients who are quite capable of proving you wrong. Yes, most are older, but the reality is that two buttons confuse some people. I've even got business owners who just don't get it when it comes to a two button mouse. I've even got a former president/COO of a major US company I guarantee you've heard of who simply can't handle two buttons.Raskin wasn't always right, but he was right far more than he was wrong.
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New Mac Pro may not support PCI-E GPUs
y2an said:Considering that so far there’s been zero evidence of a PCIe interface in Apple Silicon, this has seemed obvious for a very long time. Of course, everything being within Apple’s control, they could surprise us with a Pro-specific SoC sporting a PCIe interface. But that really breaks the performance and memory advantages of unified memory, so I’m very doubtful.Saying there's "zero evidence of a PCIe interface" is completely untrue.Here, have some evidence: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-PCIe-For-Linux-5.16Without PCIe you'd have no ports, no WiFi, and no Bluetooth. Not adding GPU support is idiotic.
