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Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals

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Re: Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals

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Post by eva1984 »

qyv wrote: post #122
mtw wrote: post #119

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Unified vision was nice. What interested me first in the Apple ecosystem was its use by high-end pros. Photographers, creatives, filmmakers. Then they announced MacOS X, built upon NeXT/BSD, and the mac pro products. Now Microsoft has dedicated products for high-end creatives (Surface studio won't sell but still shows interest in pros), Linux Bash shell in windows 10. Meanwhile Apple wants pros to use a 9" tablet ins…

If 2017 turns out to be the year the VR starts to hit the main stream, which it could be, it will be interesting to see what Apple's response will be.

How? Everyone suddenly realizes they have been closet gamer for many years and comes out for VR?

Re: Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals

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Post by eridius »

litso wrote: post #159
cust0m wrote: post #141

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No I can't, it came with p2 to lightning adapte not the oposite.

the iPhone 7 comes with a lightning to headphone adapter. plug that into the side of your new macbook pro...

No no, cust0m is right, I didn't think it through. It comes with a 3.5mm female to lightning male adaptor, not a lightning female to 3.5mm male adaptor.

Re: Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals

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Post by lukifer »

badlucklottery wrote: post #134
pducks32 wrote: post #91

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Everyone I talk to in person loves their new MacBook Pro. They say it's their favorite MacBook ever.

I think the new design/specs were polarizing enough to dissuade many devs (at least in my circle) from even bothering to upgrade. But those who were polarized in the positive direction probably got it and do love it.

I use a 5yo MBP with 16G RAM; the idea of dropping 4 grand on a laptop that will still be capped at 16G 5 years from now is laughable.

Re: Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

chrisabrams wrote: post #88
rblatz wrote: post #68

People are all up in arms about headphone jacks, USB-C, and dongles. When the real issue is Apple completely missing huge new markets. Apple had Siri out and was in the lead with voice control, then they wasted it. I never use Siri, she is nearly worthless, but I do use Alexa multiple times a day. Amazon is Leading the voice assistant market, and Google is right on their heels. Home automation was supposed to get bet…

Steve and the unified vision is gone. While on winter holidays my fiance pointed out to me: - She just got a new Macbook Pro from her new job, which has only USB C ports - She just got a new iPhone 7 from her new job, which is only a Lightning port She cannot connect her phone to her computer to charge without a dongle. EDIT: a Lightning to USB C cable does exist now. That is still equivalent to a dongle in my opinio…

I don't follow how this is an example of what you conclude.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but we never been able to connect iPhone's to computers without a special cable.

It's baffling, but not new.

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Post by illamint »

litso wrote: post #159
cust0m wrote: post #141

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No I can't, it came with p2 to lightning adapte not the oposite.

the iPhone 7 comes with a lightning to headphone adapter. plug that into the side of your new macbook pro...

What are you talking about? No it didn't. It came with an adapter that has a female 3.5mm headphone jack on one and and a male Lightning adapter on the other end to allow you to connect headphones with a 3.5mm connector to your Lightning-only iPhone 7. To connect to a 2016 MBP, you would need the opposite—a cable which does not currently exist.

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Post by stonesam92 »

tinus_hn wrote: post #136
artimaeis wrote: post #118

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> "HomeKit doesn't require a proprietary Apple chip, I have no idea where you got that idea." A few sources disagree: http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-homekit-devices-wont-include-go... > "Apple’s MFi guidelines require manufacturers to use only Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, and also include a specialized chip for authentication" http://www.digitaltrends.com/home/everything-that-works-with... > "The certification ensures that thes…

The Homebridge project provides HomeKit compatibility without Apple authorization. I don't know if Apple controls this using patents or trademarks but you don't technically need Apples authorization.

I'm pretty sure that when you register a Homebridge instance to your Apple device though you get a message about the accessory being in test mode.

Homebridge is presumably making use of some debug mode that you wouldn't use in a shipping product - and if you did, Apple wouldn't let you advertise it as officially compatible with HomeKit.

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Post by eridius »

artimaeis wrote: post #118
eridius wrote: post #87

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HomeKit doesn't require a proprietary Apple chip, I have no idea where you got that idea. It just has very high security standards.

> "HomeKit doesn't require a proprietary Apple chip, I have no idea where you got that idea." A few sources disagree: http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-homekit-devices-wont-include-go... > "Apple’s MFi guidelines require manufacturers to use only Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, and also include a specialized chip for authentication" http://www.digitaltrends.com/home/everything-that-works-with... > "The certification ensures that thes…

Huh, you might be right. I've never run across any references to this before, all I've seen in the past is about how HomeKit has very high security standards and that's why a lot of devices don't work. Still, without access to the MFi documentation, it's not clear if this chip is actually required or if it's just the easiest way to meet the security requirements that HomeKit imposes.

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Post by hcoyote »

user837387 wrote: post #89
hcoyote wrote: post #38

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Honestly, this cost is on par with other book-based photographic collections from small, bespoke printing companies (Such as Lodima Press). The real question is how many copies did they run. This will determine whether or not the cost is justified for the value you get from it. As an example, a few years ago, I purchased a copy of Edward Weston's "Life Work" from Lodima when it was released. I think I paid ~$150 for…

>>If Apple printed thousands and thousands of these, then I doubt the cost is justified. But if it was a limited run, say less than a few thousand? Seems appropriate to me. What bothers me out of this discussion is that people are getting upset about the price they choose to sell the book at. People feel way too entitled. They could sell it at a million bucks each and if people were willing to pay that then why would…

I don't have a problem with their pricing decisions. It works for some people, it doesn't work for others.

I was just noting that the pricing mirrors what I've seen in the photo/art book world.

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Post by eridius »

artimaeis wrote: post #175
tinus_hn wrote: post #136

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The Homebridge project provides HomeKit compatibility without Apple authorization. I don't know if Apple controls this using patents or trademarks but you don't technically need Apples authorization.

From what I can tell from Homebridge they provide HomeKit emulation - not compatibility. You're running a local Node server to emulate the Homekit API. Still neat - but hardly the sort of thing that implies you can ship a product utilizing Homekit without following the MFi spec.

To emulate the iOS HomeKit API, meaning you can write plugins for it to provide support for non-HomeKit-enabled devices. But presumably Homebridge itself must still vend itself as a HomeKit-enabled device on the network or else you wouldn't be able to control it.

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Post by dasil003 »

ashark wrote: post #95
legohead wrote: post #39

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Next upgrade I'm moving to MS Surface or something similar. The dongle thing did it for me, which is pretty sad. I was also a bit surprised to find out that 95% of the gaming market is still on PC [1]. Guess I was a disillusioned Mac user, but I thought Mac was bigger in games. [1] http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

Part of it's probably availability of games on the platform (which has gotten better but is still poor), but part of it's because you can buy both a lower-end Mac (an Air, say, or an entry-level MBP) and build a pretty nice gaming PC for less than the cost of just a gaming-capable mac.

Also as far as I know you can't bypass OS X's video compositing which adds latency to the rendering, which means that for latency sensitive games you will not be as competitive as a PC.
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