He still will work with Apple although Apple will need a special adapter.
Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client
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Re: Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client
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Yes, it's definitely divisive. In my case, I do need a reliable keyboard, I do not have a single USB-C device around me that I can connect (while having literally tens of USB-A devices), I do not need or want the touchbar, I want the function keys, and I don't mind the extra thickness. The new macbooks make all the wrong compromises for me. So, if it is divisive, why not make both kinds? Why does there need to be a s…
If you're living in fear maybe you should stop being their customer.
Oh, I would really like to! Believe me, I'm considering it regularly.
And yet: nobody else comes close in terms of providing me with a complete ecosystem where I can get things done. And I do know: I regularly use both Windows and Linux.
I wish there was a serious competitor to Apple.
Re: Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client
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> So, if it is divisive, why not make both kinds? Why does there need to be a single compromise across the entire line? I’m guessing because it’s probably cheaper and easier to produce fewer models, and not enough benefit to producing more. It obviously rubs some people the wrong way, but perhaps not nearly enough, no matter how vocal they may be.
The crux today is the OS. It’s gotten to the point that I’d pay 300$ per computer per year for a paid Linux that makes... me... feel b... beautiful, I know it sounds very immature but macOS makes me feel like I have succeeded in life and can afford the right tool, and Linux makes me feel like I have a knock-off that I constantly need to debug. I’m paying that price for IntelliJ so I don’t see why I couldn’t afford an…
I would pay $300/year just for Linux that has working copy/paste, with consistent shortcuts and behavior across the system.
Re: Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client
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If you walk into an Apple store and buy their top of the line laptop and top of the line phone and take them home you’ll quickly realize there is no way to plug them in to each other. That is, in fact, stupid.
A couple counterarguments: (1) "No way with the cables included in the box" is not the same as "no way." There's a USB-C to Lightning cable in the bag right next to me. That lets me plug a top of the line Apple laptop into a top of the line Apple phone. With no dongle, even. (2) In practice, there are zero times over the last two years that I've had to plug a phone into a laptop. I can't honestly remember why I bough…
Almost everyone's complaints are resolved by changing lightning ports to USB-C. Obviously it will take time for that change to make it into the next hardware refresh of the mouse/keyboard/trackpad but it should have been on the iPhone two years ago.
Re: Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client
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If you walk into an Apple store and buy their top of the line laptop and top of the line phone and take them home you’ll quickly realize there is no way to plug them in to each other. That is, in fact, stupid.
A couple counterarguments: (1) "No way with the cables included in the box" is not the same as "no way." There's a USB-C to Lightning cable in the bag right next to me. That lets me plug a top of the line Apple laptop into a top of the line Apple phone. With no dongle, even. (2) In practice, there are zero times over the last two years that I've had to plug a phone into a laptop. I can't honestly remember why I bough…
The people waving fists aren't doing it for "PRINCIPLE OF THE MATTER". They are literally forced to use extra dongles and components for THEIR workflow.
Here's my reason:
https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Headset-H390-Noise-Cancellin...
I can't find any replacements. Anyone on my team that tries whatever bluetooth whatever, they always sound distant or scratchy just plain lagged. On the other hand they keep asking me to tell them what I use because I always sound crystal clear with no background noise. I send them that link and immediately dismiss it because it's cheap, uses a stupid USB connector and their laptop doesn't support the plug without dongles. (I use a 2014 MBP)
Yet they keep complimenting me, like literally every call on how good I sound to them. I don't care if they found a $200 lightning plug version with large ear cups - they don't sound like I do.
Re: Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client
#746Re: Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client
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> I have a Lenovo T480 which is 10x better than a T490. Snag one while you can... The T490 is a regression, I agree, but the upcoming Lenovo P53 looks to be a great machine. It has almost same chassis (just a couple improved ports) as the P52, which is (IMO) superior to the T480. And you can get it with Linux installed at the factory! There seems to be a consistent slide, where once-venerable machines like the Macboo…
> The T490 is a regression... What about T490s? My university offers one but we can also receive the same amount of money as research funding. Do you think it'd be wise to choose the T490s over money? I mean, has this model improved things in the Lenovo series?
Depends on your research. Is your use case primarily/frequently walking around to various conference rooms, working at a table or in a lab, or are you running intense programs at a dedicated desk? For the first, the 490s and other new thin-and-light laptops are great, for the second, everyone's trying to sell you laptops designed for the first use case, and for the third, a desktop will blow every equally-priced laptop out of the water.
The 's' is the "slim" thinner and lighter version in the T-series. They do use better components (Carbon/magnesium instead of glass-fiber-reinforced nylon) to built the S, and it costs a little more as a result and is easier to tote around. But it will be harder to repair and upgrade than the standard model, and have poorer thermal performance . It also lacks the discrete GPU, has soldered-on RAM vs. the T490's one DIMM slot, and technically lacks an RJ45 Ethernet port.
The T490s does have a proprietary micro-RJ45 port that's thin enough to fit in the laptop and can convert to RJ45 with a special dongle, which to me is the epitome of everything wrong with modern laptops.
GP and I were griping that the T490, like the Macbook Pro, is trending toward the thin-and-light form factor. They dropped the RJ45 port so they could make the T490s 16.7mm thin, and the T490 is 17.9mm thick. My current upgrade plan is aimed at the P53, which is 25.8mm thick, supports 170W of thermal dissipation and processing power instead of 60W, has replaceable/upgradeable RAM, storage, batteries, more ports...and still weighs less than 6 lbs.
That machine can be trivially carried on the brief 2x/day walk from my desk to the lab, and I would't find it worthwhile to cut that weight in half if it means a poorer experience the other 7.9 hours of the day.
Re: Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client
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I agree, but he also brought us the 2016 MBP which is possibly the best programmer's laptop ever made.
You mean the 2015 MBP? That's widely regarded as the last good MBP.
I'm thinking the third-generation MBP. The last one before the TouchBar. But, honestly, I loved every generation of Appl laptops except for the most recent.
Re: Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client
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I knew defining a dongle would bring out the pedants, and that makes me very happy, but I think the real point is being overlooked here. Folks who want an SD card reader or HDMI should carry around SD card readers and HDMI cables. People who don't want those things shouldn't have to carry them around. I modernized all my accessories years ago. USB-C is all I or, I would argue, nearly anyone needs. I'm truly sorry tha…
You do realize that ports are holes right? They make your laptop lighter. The amount of metal removed from the case is heavier than the connector and PCB traces. Don't carry around the cables if you don't want to, but your argument is ridiculous.
They do have stuff inside them though, so I'm not suggesting they make it heavier but having the required electronics does take up space that can be otherwise utilised.
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>Denied data recovery when it’s possible This one hits close to home. I brought in my phone for a warranty exchange when the charging port was damaged. Phone at 7% without the ability to charge, I was told emailing photos to myself was the only option and was prodded to use the cloud storage in the future. It’s unfortunate I wasn’t in the position to leave without a new phone. Years of photos were lost that day due t…
I’d say - only your own failure to back up locally. If you don’t do backups, it’s just a matter of time before you lose data one way or another.
Totally agree with you, this was my own doing. Though I would have been more than willing to pay extra for data recovery if it were an option.