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SpamSandwich said:

anantksundaram said:

The new MBP is the most overpriced p.o.s product I’ve bought from Apple. And I’ve been at this since 1984, so ever.

I truly wish I could do back to my gorgeous 2015 aluminum MBP. Simply better in every way imaginable. Sadly it’s too late... (and there’s this minor matter of a $4,100 piece of mediocrity that I’ve resigned myself to, since I am not sure of what else to do with it). 

Ouch. Sorry to hear about that. A lot of people seem to dislike where Apple is taking the MBP line.

Tech607 said:

Also the fact that there is no useful IO on these laptops is unforgivable. So for $4000 dollars I get to buy $300 adapters that plug into the side of the computer just to make the thing useful. Doesn't seem like a company that listens to its customers. I believe that Apple is on the decline in a MS type of way. Not that they will cease to be profitable but they will lose the respect of the computer industry and those that have loved and used their products for year. At no other time have I seen so many complaints after Apple releases, yet they seem to be blind to the damage they are doing to their reputation. Let me upgrade my darn hardware again sheesh. 

bestkeptsecret said:

I'm using Screen Time to limit the usage of iPads for my kids and it works pretty well. The only thing I find lacking is the inability to set screen time restrictions for only few days a week.

I'd like to be able to remove the limit on weekends automatically.

hexclock said:

KITA said:

AppleInsider said:

Microsoft's Surface unable to say "no"

So who is troubled in PCs as the world enters 2019? Certainly Microsoft, which has proven unable to move beyond the conventional PC in either smartphones or mobile tablets or other form factors. Its PC platform shrank twice as fast as Apple's iPad grew, and its own Surface vision of hybrid computing has remained tepidly flat for a decade at a number that's only about a twelfth of the revenue Apple is generating from its range of non-phone computing hardware.

Yet the Surface lineup includes so many various experiments-- Microsoft seems almost unable to say no-- that the cost of developing and maintaining all those SKUs is significant, crushing any hope of profitability. That makes Surface a profit sink, a distraction away from things Microsoft could be doing.

Microsoft is spending tons of money to look cool but isn't creating a viabile business

That's the very types of projects that Jobs canceled when he took over Apple in 1997, yet today's pundits demand that Apple take note of the whimsical things being done under the Surface brand and follow Microsoft, rather than pursuing the strategies that Jobs used to turn Apple around. Since 2011, Tim Cook has exercised the same strategies to dramatically grow Apple's sales even as the industries around it continue to slide sideways with distractions that were a waste of resources.

So Hololens 2 and Azure aren't moving beyond? They're utilizing an ARM processor along with their own in-house silicon and hardware to create a product without rival. Voice control, eye tracking and hand tracking combined with Azure remote rendering to allow for some very forward thinking experiences and visuals well beyond what the headset's hardware alone could produce. They're building major cornerstones in the mixed reality ecosystem starting with commercial and enterprise applications. They're partnered with dozens of industry leaders and scoring major contracts, such as the roughly $500 million dollar contract with the US military.

A group of MS employees is demanding they cancel that military contract. 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-22/microsoft-workers-call-on-company-to-cancel-military-contract