Apple Deprecated All My Stuff
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Apple Deprecated All My Stuff
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#2Did you hear about Apple's latest marketing initiative? They are renaming all the Apple Stores. From now on, they will be known as "Dongle City".
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#3I feel like this transition would go way way smoother if Apple released a single Apple TV-sized USB-C to everything else hub, with USB-A, DVI, HDMI, thunderbolt ports, instead of 5 different adapters.
Even better, they could have added all of these to the MacBook charger brick. In fact, why hasn't anyone released such a product yet?
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#4I feel like this transition would go way way smoother if Apple released a single Apple TV-sized USB-C to everything else hub, with USB-A, DVI, HDMI, thunderbolt ports, instead of 5 different adapters. Even better, they could have added all of these to the MacBook charger brick. In fact, why hasn't anyone released such a product yet?
That's a good idea, but people don't always place the brick part of the charger on their desk. I usually use the direct connector (not the long one) and plug it into the wall. I would need extension cables to connect everything to it.
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#5Did you hear about Apple's latest marketing initiative? They are renaming all the Apple Stores. From now on, they will be known as "Dongle City".
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#6Well, they make lots of USB-C to micro-b superspeed, so that's not really an issue:
https://www.amazon.com/Axxbiz-CableBiz-C016B-USB-Type-Cable/...
As for needs X number of adapters... or just buy a hub? Or are you actually carting around an external keyboard everywhere you go...? In which case why are you using a macbook in the first place?
https://www.amazon.com/Ethernet-Adapter-Including-ChromeBook...
I can get hating on Apple when they introduce new PROPRIETARY ports. But for the love of god, USB-C was the best decision they ever made. Is it going to take some time for devices in the rest of the ecosystem to make the switch? Sure... but the short-term pain is worth dragging the industry along.
Also... you can replace the battery pretty easily in a macbook.
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Retina+Disp...
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#7Imagine how it feels when it's software you've spent many years crafting. I've been developing on the Mac since the late 80s and pretty much the entirety of what we think of as the "Mac" has been deprecated on multiple occasions. There used to be this thing called the Toolbox which contained all the windowing GUI methods stored in ROM, then it was pretty much the entirety of the classic to NeXTSTEP transition we called Carbon, then it was most of Mac OS when they downsized it for iOS.
Nowadays I wouldn't advise using native calls. It's probably better to get into something like Cordova or Ionic since if you are going to have any online capability, things like Core Data are going to feel antiquated compared to something like Firebase or RethinkDB. Not to mention the basic pain of rewriting your app to be cross platform with something like MinGW or The Cocotron.
I still love Apple but from what I can tell, they are running out of options in both the hardware and software space because everything is about to go to VR and nobody is going to care what's running behind the scenes. Maybe Google is the new Apple, but to be blunt, no company has had the UX vision that Apple has. People are worried about a lack of ports on the new MacBook Pros but what we should really be worried about is a world without the simplicity and elegance of Apple in all things.
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#8I feel like this transition would go way way smoother if Apple released a single Apple TV-sized USB-C to everything else hub, with USB-A, DVI, HDMI, thunderbolt ports, instead of 5 different adapters. Even better, they could have added all of these to the MacBook charger brick. In fact, why hasn't anyone released such a product yet?
You mean like this?
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#10Slightly OT, but what version of the HHKB is that? I've never seen one with that layout (the JIS version has arrow keys but it's quite different...)
Edit: also, be aware that the Apple USB-C to TB2 adapter doesn't support DisplayPort! So you'll need a different cable for your monitor - or, better, a dock where to plug everything in.