poty posted:

http://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Apple-to-extend-iPhone-s-product-cycle

tim "got nothing" cook has officially run out of steves ideas and doesnt have a clue what to do next. i for one look forward to the big launch of the iphone 6b this september. the b stands for barometer

Jimmy Carter posted:

joke's on you the current phone already has one (used to know how far up/down stairs you go, for indoor positioning, and Dark Sky uses it to refine their data models)

Larry Parrish posted:

You're right; the current trend of extremely pricey tech goods becoming less and less end-user-maintainable and planned obsolescence is actually good in the hosed up brain of someone who upgrades their phone and computer to the latest Consumer human being model. But do me a favor and try to think what someone without disposable income would think about paying double the price for a monitor with the drawback of having to replace the monitor and graphics card at the same time

Larry Parrish posted:

zen death robot posted:

Apple is more like Toyota if you wanna make a car comparison

maniacdevnull posted:

Hewlett Mackard

poty posted:

im not trying to make a car comparison

im trying to introduce the very novel concept of a premium product for normal people who wont tinker with it because they have better things to do to a goon

poty posted:

the prius is not really premium. its expensive for a car i guess but its not like there are other manufacturers doing the same thing cheaper afaik

echinopsis posted:

cancer treatments are highly profitable

echinopsis posted:

cancer treatments are highly profitable

THC posted:

perfectly fine used PC

Locker Room Zubaz posted:

The simple fact is almost every engineered product made for consumers is not going to be serviceable solely because of the complexity of its electronics, if you want to service something pay a premium for lab grade and industry grade electronics and don't buy a car

angry_keebler posted:

i had to fix the control board in my refrigerator by doing like a zillion finicky solders because the piece of poo poo ice maker dribbles water into the evaporator fan so the control board decides to poo poo itself

then i fixed the ice maker by whittling a shim and doping it in a fabric fire retardant so the ice maker heater wont light it on fire so it cost like 11 bucks in parts instead of 240 or w/e they wanted for a new control board and like another 200 for the out of stock moisture kit that wouldn't have actually solved the problem

Smythe posted:

angry_keebler posted:

i had to fix the control board in my refrigerator by doing like a zillion finicky solders because the piece of poo poo ice maker dribbles water into the evaporator fan so the control board decides to poo poo itself

then i fixed the ice maker by whittling a shim and doping it in a fabric fire retardant so the ice maker heater wont light it on fire so it cost like 11 bucks in parts instead of 240 or w/e they wanted for a new control board and like another 200 for the out of stock moisture kit that wouldn't have actually solved the problem

fleshweasel posted:

well, the unibody pre-retina (2008-2012) macbook pros were actually really nice to do memory or HDD jobs on. not bad to do optical drives on either. it seems somewhat worse these days given the ram soldered to the logic board and the fact that you're not intended to be inside the thing.

mishaq posted:

yeah putting an ssd into my 2011 macbook pro was easy as poo poo

Locker Room Zubaz posted:

how can anyone like any electronic device that isn't a DIY PC if they are all about repair ability? ever since everything went digital with MCU controls instead of analog pots and stuff nothing has been repairable. like if you are bitching and not using a tube tv, 30yr old marantz receiver and driving a car from the 60s then you aren't really that strongly interested in user serviceability. The simple fact is almost every engineered product made for consumers is not going to be serviceable solely because of the complexity of its electronics, if you want to service something pay a premium for lab grade and industry grade electronics and don't buy a car

PleasureKevin posted:

first explain to me how a monitor with a graphics chip in it is different from

* the current display which has video controller, USB router and thunderbolt controller in it
* the current iMac which has a graphics chip in it, as well as CPU, webcam, logic board, etc

you're getting really, really mad on a web site because you think Apple should release a display that only works well on 15" Macbook Pros with dedicated graphics. and you see this as class warfare because you erroneously think people will have to upgrade the graphics chip separately for some reason.

the middle class is disappearing, the price of living is astronomical, 95% of all new wealth is going to a fraction of the top 1%. but i think this is a pretty cool engineering choice that could actually save people money because they won't have to upgrade their devices. when urban outfitter sells a culturally appropriated dress worth $5 for $200, light up the social justice bat signal in the sky and i'll be there but this is a professional computer product.

also, Apple has been letting battery life outpace graphics power for many years. some products have seen big reductions in computing and graphics power, like the macbook. if apple's plan is to reduce cost and improve battery life for 95% of users while handing-off the performance stuff to another device, that's actually brilliant.

angry_keebler posted:

me, getting owned:

THC posted:

iirc there was a Cathy theme in Microsoft Plus! for Windows 98. it was pretty baller

Stymie posted:

is one of the comparison items "kills people" for apple maps vs. "hasn't killed people" for googmaps?

mishaq posted:

stymie was right