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"Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)" (bman76-4) 10/27/2016 at 18:50 • Filed to: None

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Hahahahahahahahahaha, what a total shit-show.

I’m not usually one to hate on Apple, but man are they doing stupid stuff lately.

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S65 > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/27/2016 at 18:54

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That 430 was sweet, how much more money could they possibly make from that?

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > S65 10/27/2016 at 18:57

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I’m going to assume that almost every macbook purchaser already has an iPhone, soooooo many, many dollars.

TheHondaBro > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/27/2016 at 18:58

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I never plugged my phone into my MacBook Pro anyway. If I’m going to be charging it with what is basically a battery, I might as well get an external battery like I’ve been using.

I don’t like what Apple has been doing lately, but the new MacBook Pro looks quite nice, if I’m being honest.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/27/2016 at 18:59

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Apple needs to stop fucking with ports. USB-C isn’t even a solid enough standard to be the only port on anything beyond a cell phone.

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/27/2016 at 18:59

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Man Apple doesn’t even fuck around with nickel and diming you to death. They go straight for the Jacksons

RyanFrew > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/27/2016 at 19:00

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This is the one reason I didn’t believe the rumors. That’s absurd. Great looking computer, but Apple seems to be on a mission to destroy all of their good will.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > TheHondaBro 10/27/2016 at 19:00

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I don’t know, it seems to me that if you’re buying into their infrastructure that everything should just plug and play, this seems clunky.

Probenja > TheHondaBro 10/27/2016 at 19:02

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But just said that people are going to need an external battery now, soon you will have to carry about 10 more items each time you need to work on the go.

Honeybunchesofgoats > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/27/2016 at 19:05

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As someone who has been a die hard Apple user for years, they can seriously go fuck themselves. Especially for making me consider hate buying a maxed out Air so I don’t have to deal with this shit when it’s time to upgrade my 2012 model.

Fun fact: a fully optioned MacBook Air costs $100 more (1500) than the cheapest version of the new 13" Pro that they’re positioning as it’s replacement ($1400).

My Air has a thunderbolt port, two USB ports, a charging port that is left over from when Apple knew how to design hardware, and an integrated SD card slot, and a headphone jack.

The new base model Pro has two USB-C ports, one of which needs to be used for the charger, and a headphone jack.

Oh, and the world’s least tactile physical keyboard.

I hope this, along with the $500 jump in entry price, royally backfires and destroys the market share that they’ve built up over the past few years.

Fuck Apple oh so hard.

For context, I have owned the following iPhones: 3G, 3GS, 4, 4s, 5, 6, 6s. That means that in the past 8 years, I have purchased 7 out of 9 phones they’ve released on a yearly basis. Not counting the iPhone, I haven’t purchased a single Apple product in three years. They can get fucked.

TheHondaBro > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/27/2016 at 19:06

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Then again, I’ve never needed to charge my battery-hog cellphone when I couldn’t charge it. It’s called “let-it-sit-in-your-pocket”

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > S65 10/27/2016 at 19:06

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I’m going to guess that about 80% of people who buy macbooks will have an I phone. If they sell 1 million Macbooks that’s 800,000 people who may want to charge their phone. Let’s say half those people buy an apple adapter to charge their phone so they sell 400,000 adapters. At $25 for a cable which costs about 1 dollar for apple to make you are looking at about $9.6 million in profit. That is a lot of dough in return for fucking over your customer. Then you add in the licensing fees for third parties to make lightning cables and Apple is really raking in the cash. They are going to make millions off of the fact that you can’t charge an iPhone from the Macbook.

Honeybunchesofgoats > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/27/2016 at 19:08

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That was what used to make me try and sell people on Apple. The way their computers, phone, tablet, and TV box worked together was truly amazing.

Honeybunchesofgoats > TheHondaBro 10/27/2016 at 19:10

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For me, as someone who used to mirror my MacBook onto a display at work and work from that, it was way simpler to just plug my phone into one of the ports than bother with carrying around a USB charger. Pretty much exactly the opposite of this BS, since now I’d have to just carry around a single anyway.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > Honeybunchesofgoats 10/27/2016 at 19:10

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I’ve got a 6s and I love it, but I’ve never been a mac user. Too much “we’re different just to be different” for me.

Probenja > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/27/2016 at 19:13

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I don’t get Apple now, I own an Asus Zenbook that is thinner than the 12" macbook and it has 3 usb ports, an sd card reader, micro-hdmi and a headphone jack. Now all flashdrives/sd cards will need an adapter, the charger is no longer magnetic, and I know Apple will get away with it and all the other PC makers will follow them into the “wireless” era.

How do I know the last part? The “updated” version of my computer already switched to only having usb type C ports.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > Probenja 10/27/2016 at 19:22

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One of my coworkers just got a new Surface Pro, it’s the only new computer that I really like.

BKosher84 > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/27/2016 at 19:30

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BUT IT’S .33MM THINNER NOW!!!

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > BKosher84 10/27/2016 at 19:32

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You know, I carry around a set of calipers with me measuring the thickness of everything I see...

Honeybunchesofgoats > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/27/2016 at 19:33

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I can understand that. Switching from Windows to Mac is incredibly difficult to get used to (the enter key being used to change file names rather than open them is a big one, although I will personally punch Tim Cook in the dick if they ever change that), and with the way their software is headed, there’s very little incentive to switch.

That said, until they screw it up, OSX blows Windows out of the water when it comes to file handling and working with media. I have a job where I have to deal with a lot of photographs, and there are things that OSX does so much better than Windows:

The ability to select multiple files, hit control + option + n, and create and move them to a new folder.

The ability to preview RAW images, including proprietary formats, PSD files, and numerous others. I used to shoot in RAW+JPG just so I could preview photos in Windows without having to open a dedicated image application.

Quick previewing images, PDFs, and other files.

The “cover flow” view is the single best way to quickly search through hundreds of images that I’ve ever used, and that includes dedicated applications like Lightroom.

Things do genuinely run faster and better on Macs. My four year old MacBook Air still runs Photoshop and AutoCAD better and faster than any Windows desktop I’ve ever used in the workplace.

Apple’s international keyboard system is the single best non-dedicated keyboard for typing in a foreign language. Learning the five or so shortcut keys for diacritics and being able to add them to any letter is so much better than memorizing alt-key numpad shortcuts. Alt-key codes can go f+alt+252+ck themselves.

Honeybunchesofgoats > RyanFrew 10/27/2016 at 19:50

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I really hope they do. I’m convinced that it’s the only thing that will save them at this point. This being their first year of straight declines is a start. Apple needs to start suffering so that their structure gets chopped up. For a start, Ives needs to either get pushed out or reduced to the degree of control he had under Jobs. It’s very clear that his hardware obsessions have been influencing the software, and everything is suffering as a result.

Apple is still every bit as combative and tyrannical with regard to the desires of their consumers as they were under Jobs, but the difference is that Jobs was a psychotic obsessive who placed UI above all else. Current Apple will just make everything shittier for everyone if it means shaving a few millimeters off of a device.

gmctavish needs more space > Honeybunchesofgoats 10/27/2016 at 19:51

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I wholeheartedly agree. I went from an old G4 Pro Tower and an iPhone 4, to a 2011 Mini and now I’ve got an iPhone 6. It’s still more than enough phone for me, and as long as I don’t update it to the point that it’s unusable, I’m keeping it until I see something that actually gets my attention, definitely not getting an iPhone 7. The Mini is still doing pretty alright, so it won’t be replaced for some time. I was already unsure what I’d be replacing it with, but now all I know is I doubt it’ll be another Mac. I’ve got 3 USB ports, an SD card slot, a lightning port, and I definitely don’t want less than that. I hate the direction they’ve been going since Steve Jobs died.

Honeybunchesofgoats > gmctavish needs more space 10/27/2016 at 20:27

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I totally agree.

I used to cringe at Jobs comments, because I remember how even under Jobs, people lamented how Apple’s products were “becoming toys,” but it’s really undeniable that they’ve been on a downward trajectory.

I blame Ives. As a recall, after Jobs died, he wanted to leave, so they offered him more control over all aspects of the products to get him to stay. It’s really clear that his design priorities have been taking presence over UX and that software—which used to be complimentary to the hardware—is now suffering because it needs to accommodate the limitations of the hardware design.

As I said in response to another comment, Apple is every bit as dictatorial towards its users as it was under Jobs, but Jobs had a clear vision and an obsession with user experience. Since Jobs died, Apple still doesn’t give a fuck about what it’s users want, but not because it believes it knows what’s best, but because it believes that nothing matters except for the appearance.

The whole reason to choose Apple over Windows used to be because the hardware and software were designed specifically for each other, which always meant that they worked together better than third party hardware running Windows.

I used to own ThinkPads. ThinkPads worked, even if they weren’t as sexy or glossy as other laptops. At this point, Apple is almost like any PC hardware company that made a sexy and glossy laptop, but choked once you turned it on and Vista loaded up.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Honeybunchesofgoats 10/27/2016 at 20:29

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many of these advantages are no longer unique with W10, and with Anniversary Update I now have a posix-compliant command line under windows too... I do still miss the alt/cmd/apple international shortcuts and special characters, but I’m on the “fuck apple” bandwagon these days too.

Honeybunchesofgoats > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 10/27/2016 at 20:31

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I wondered about that. I haven’t used anything after 8, which I hated, and every place I’ve worked still used 7.

x87172 > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/27/2016 at 20:34

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Apple is becoming a shitshow of adapters and disfunction across the lineup.

ASAP, they need to:

1. Unify their chargers. Right now there’s USB-3, MagSafe, Lightning, iMac, and Mac Pro, and Watch. Seriously? I can’t believe the iPhone 7 comes with a standard USB charger & power brick when their new laptops are USB-3.

2. You think I care if my MacBook Pro is a little bit thinner? Not when I have to carry around a backpack full of cables just to be able to plug in HDMI, SD Card, standard USB, and on iPhone, headphones. Bring back the things that made it such a versatile machine!

3. If they are going to go down this road, supply some damn adapters! The iPhone should come with a lightning to AUX and lightning splitter, and the free headphones should have an extra lightning port to allow charging while listening.

It truly is unbelievable.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Honeybunchesofgoats 10/27/2016 at 20:40

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7 is reliable, traditional, and “windows-y”. 8 was a poorly executed attempt at “New and Flashy!” 10 is still a work in progress, but it shows great potential. It’s still weighed down by some legacy crap (registry, drivers, binary compatibility) but it’s much smarter, lighter, faster, robust and more flexible than previous windows.

Honeybunchesofgoats > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 10/27/2016 at 20:42

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8 murdered my old X61t ThinkPad, and the earliest release was almost impossible to boot into safe mode. I will never forgive it for that.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Honeybunchesofgoats 10/27/2016 at 20:49

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10 fixes most of the sins of 8... Most. It’s really a pretty big change for M$. Windows die-hards hated it at first (many still do), but as a former Apple guy it’s a step in the right direction in my oppinion.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/27/2016 at 20:59

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I’m honestly disappointed in the specs department and USB C isn’t widespread enough to have 4 of them as your only IO.

FromCanadaWithLove > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/27/2016 at 21:16

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So this won’t be a problem when they release an iPhone USB-C cable, right? Seems like clickbait. I think taking the headphone jack out of the humdrum iPhone 7 was dumb as shit, but I don’t see the problem here.

The Mac rule is never buy Day 1. You can with iPhones, but they consistently drop prices and increase specs on Macs after 6 months or so. Just wait. Especially with the new USB slots - wait for that to get more popular. I think the touch screen thing is cool - but Photoshop support doesn’t come until later. Just wait.

Funktheduck > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/27/2016 at 22:08

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My mid 2012 air is still kicking. The battery isn’t what it used to be and I wish I had more storage but otherwise no complaints.

The MacBook (super thin one) is the new air and just as useless and the first gen Air. I’m pretty bummed they’re killing the air because it’s pretty much perfect albeit a little pricey.

The new pros I like but I just can’t justify the price. That said, my 4 year old air is the longest lasting laptop I’ve had (possibly tied for first). It definitely runs better than my HP did at 4 years old before it died.

audicatt > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/28/2016 at 02:37

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I watched the event, yet another disappointment. I’m in the market for a new laptop. I was going to buy the MacBook Pro, but I assumed the price would stay the same. It costs a few hundred bucks more now and has less ports. What a joke.

audicatt > Honeybunchesofgoats 10/28/2016 at 02:42

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I was ready to switch to Apple recently. Microsoft was getting on my nerves with Windows 10, and I was sick of dealing with drivers, buggy software, and every god damn problem that popped up. I have a 2011 iMac which I love, but I need a laptop, so I decided to wait for the event. Fuck that overpriced trash, I’m not paying over $2000 Canadian after tax for a base model laptop with a crappy keyboard and no USB ports. The cheapest version doesn’t even have that dumb Touch Bar gimmick so I don’t know where the money is going if anywhere at all. I still want a Mac, but it’s not going to be the new one for sure. Better than Windows at least...

RyanFrew > Honeybunchesofgoats 10/28/2016 at 09:59

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Huh - this is an interesting take, and a good one, but I’ve never heard it put that way. Ive is undoubtedly a genius, but you’re probably right that he has too much authority now. If the iPhone 7 had really blown the doors off in terms of battery life, there would be more buzz about it. And switch exclusively to USB-C is just reckless, especially given that the previous Macbook Pro Retina didn’t even have one at all. Why not make it more of a transition? And what’s with the decision to get rid of SD Card slots?

Whatever. Microsoft hit its all-time stock high this week, as Apple announced their first sales loss since ‘03. Microsoft announces the Surface Studio and Apple gives us...this. I’m at the right place :)

BKosher84 > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/28/2016 at 13:01

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I mean.. Only the truest tech nerds do...

CaptDale - is secretly British > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/28/2016 at 18:39

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Same here