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Apple accessories set for rapid Lighting to USB-C shift
https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MU7E2ZM/A/usb-c-to-35mm-headphone-jack-adapterbaconstang said:I wonder if they'll be offering a USB-C to 3.5mm dongle for the new phones?It already exists, just a question of whether it'll be compatible with the new iPhones
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New MacBook Pro with M1 Max processor will ditch Touch Bar, adopt MagSafe
Clamourers for USB-A ports on the new MacBook Pros have appeared with depressing predictability. It seems contradictory to want old tech on new products: the official USB organisation has dropped the USB-A connector from the current standard: USB 4 is achieved only via USB-C connectors.
All this clamour for USB-A ports is ironic seeing how 20 years ago Apple introduced the iMac with just USB[-A] ports, and there was lots of whining back then as to why Apple couldn’t also add the SCSI and Serial ports of the day.
The USB-C connector is superior both in ease of use and the features it can offer; if Apple kept on catering to the technology luddites we’d all still be using ”laptops” the size and weight of the Macintosh Portable with ADB and SCSI ports.
It’s difficult to believe that those incapable of adapting to a $20-50 USB-C/Bluetooth mouse, or a $20 dollar USB-C to HDMI cable/adaptor, are serious, or should be taken seriously, in their consideration of several thousand dollar MacBook Pros for professional revenue earning work.
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Steve Jobs email reveals Apple was evaluating an 'iPhone nano' in 2010
All this uninformed Tim Cook bashing is getting tiresome: Tim Cook was one of Steve Jobs’s very first, if not first hires when he resumed as CEO. Jony Ive was one of the few senior people Steve Jobs retained from the previous Apple administration.OutdoorAppDeveloper said:In 2020 Tim Cook was not evaluating a Mac Nano even though Apple had the technical ability to produce one easily. That's the difference between a CEO with vision and one with ability. Jobs imagined products that could not be produced. Cook can't imagine products which can be produced.
Thus the 21st century success of Apple is as much the fruit of Tim Cook’s and Jonathan Ive’s labours as it is Steve Jobs’s.
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How Apple Silicon Macs can supercharge computing in the 2020s
Seriously? In that case, which other competitors author their own operating systems for several categories of products they sell in volume, just like Apple does with macOS for desktops, iOS/iPadOS for mobile devices, tvOS for set-top boxes AND watchOS for wearables?avon b7 said:
Apple definitely does not have any such 'broader or taller technology stack to work with than any other competitor' . That is ludicrous.
Ludicrous in the extreme.
I would like you to support that claim.
And how many of those competitors design the very microprocessors that go into their own products?
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How Apple Silicon Macs can supercharge computing in the 2020s
That's a damning indictment of Windows laptop manufacturers: it means Apple unintentionally makes better Windows computers than makers for whom Windows is their primary focus.GeorgeBMac said:Meet my grandson. He asked for a MacBook for Christmas so I got him one -- thinking he would use it for school (little knowing that Corona Virus was coming right around the corner). But soon i saw it sitting all lonely in a corner by itself. It turns out both he and his mom hate MacOS and refused to use it.So, I installed WIndows 10 under Bootcamp. Now he uses it everyday and his mom wants one too and has been trying to steal his -- but he'll have none of it! They both love his MacBook Air now that it runs Windows 10.
