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anome said:

foljs said:

anome said:

The comments about "MacBook Pro should have moar portz!" are kind of missing the point of the article. It's not that they need dongles to plug the stuff they brought with them into their MacBook Pro, it's that they can't use USB-C only to charge their other devices yet.

If the only devices they'd decided to charge via USB-C were the two that needed it - the MacBook Pro, and the iPad Pro - then they wouldn't have had a problem. The problem is caused by trying to use USB-C to charge everything, and not having enough USB-C ports available to charge everything at once.

I still don't see the problem. The 3 (sans power) fucking USB-C ports, how many do they need?

And how many devices are enough? 

I had the same problem (not enough ports to charge) as a photographer with USB A, so that has nothing to do with USB C.

And anybody who knows that they have multiple devices to charge could have gotten an appropriate breakout box with 2-3-5 USB C -- there are several.

This is contrived BS.

If you're working at a trade show, you just might find yourself in a situation where you have one or more devices running down and either no convenient wall points to charge from, or nowhere to sit and plug in your MacBook Pro, then arrange the other devices around it. Note that, while in clamshell mode and disconnected from power, the MBP will tend to power down the USB ports. And if your MacBook Pro is one of the things running low on power, you're definitely going to need somewhere to plug it in.

It's quite easy to find yourself running low on power in multiple devices. Especially if you're taking lots of photographs, recording interviews, editing footage on the fly, writing blog entries and news reports, and using LTE for data (since the WiFi at these things is pretty basic, and massively oversubscribed). I expect if you're working at these things, you don't usually get to go back to your hotel room until quite late. Sure, charging over night will set you up for first thing tomorrow morning, but how long will it last?

Even so, this kind of ignores the point of the article. They decided, as an experiment at least, to work at CES using only USB-C. Unfortunately, it's not pervasive enough to make this work. Yet/ It probably will be in a few years. In the meantime, you probably do need to carry some USB-A cables.

dysamoria said:

philbcarter said:

It’s a dang  shame that you guys can only think about money instead of the fact that you’re cool picture is around the world    Shows how greedy everybody is gotten. 

Greed? It’s called exchange of goods. It’s basic social economics. Basic capitalism. Usually people here on this forum are all about the capitalism, but that’s only for corporations, right? People defend corporations for making profit hand over fist, denying ethics any place in the discussion. But when it comes to non-corporate entities, suddenly asking for money as compensation is greed?? Your worldview is broken.

Your comment shows just how little you respect the notion of compensating individual people for their work. What could possibly be your motivation to mock people for desiring compensation be given to the creators of  content being used for marketing, to make millions in sales of the product at the center of the campaign? What could possibly be the benefit to you in promoting this antisocial ideology? It’s especially egregious when their work will generate tons of profit for the corporation using the content without just compensation.

This contest nonsense is a common cost-cutting, exploitative tactic: exchanging worthless “exposure” for use of valuable content that would otherwise cost money to acquire.

Abusive tactics like this is part of the reason that many designers and photographers can’t live off of their expertise anymore. The economics of exchange, in the realm of visual arts, have been broken. Designers and photographers are treated as “elitists” because they want just financial compensation for their expertise. Expertise itself is treated as arrogance. It’s basic anti-intellectualism. Good job supporting anti-intellectualism.

It isn’t greed to ask for compensation from a corporation that makes a massively disproportionate amount of income compared to the people who’s content is used without compensation. This article is providing the service of pointing out this egregious disparity between the value of the outcome for Apple and the compensation given to those from whom they acquire their marketing content.

Mike Wuerthele said:

launfall said:

So don’t enter the contest. This is too much about nothing. You are, perhaps unaware that EVERY photo you store on Google is usable by them without your consent and no remuneration. You seem to have failed the one thing necessary for any editorial comment: knowledge about your subject. 

Your whataboutism is noted. We're aware that every photo that you store on Google is usable without renumeration, and it is one reason, amongst many others, that we don't use the service. It isn't relevant to the point, at all.

tipoo said:

hentaiboy said:

tipoo said:

If the iPad [Budget] went back to a laminated screen and dropped in A11, that would be enough for me and a great value. The nonlaminated screen feels a bit chintzy after yeras of laminated Apple screens. Plus, no antireflective coating on it. 

It’s the iPad. Do you call the MacBook the MacBook [Budget]?

No, but I and many others often call it the Macbook 12 to distinguish it from the rest of the Macbook line without it having an official suffix. iPad 9.7 if you prefer, [budget] being half tongue in cheek.