Apple has approached McLaren Technology Group, the British supercar engineer and Formula One team owner, about a potential acquisition, in the clearest sign yet that the iPhone maker is seeking to transform the automotive industry.
Apple are fucking insane.
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
Bwah doesn't have to be a supercar. Mclaren Technology Group do a lot of parts and sharing (read: selling) of know how.
They have the tech... not the production line. So might be a great partnership for both. Macca has been looking into higher production.
Bit strange that I haven't heard anything recent from the F1 side on this though... even rumours would be big news. Joe Saward has been talking about Apple cars for a while now but don't think he ever mentioned MTG in the same sentence.
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
Short version: they didn't refund him something, he saw it as a violation of his consumer's rights and decided to take revenge. He then did it in the most douchebaggy way possible.
Managed to get my hands on an iPhone 7 yesterday. It was the matte black version and I think it looks great. Feels lighter than my 6s, the finishes are once again fantastic. What I also liked is the non-physical Home button, mine started to sound a bit loud ( i think dirt managed to get there somehow ).
At the time I bought my MacBook Air 11" (2010), I was actually amazed at the build quality of the thing, the battery life and the portability. It really set a standard.
Since then Apple has been concentrating on producing only consuming devices.
And while everyone else and their grandmother is doing great slim convertibles using kabylake, Apple introduce the PAY-Button-bar. That company has completely lost the touch to their userbase. It may work out for them financially, but imo it is a great loss in innovation for the Computer market atm.
Soe courageous... wow.
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Prostetnic Jony Ive tilted his head and smiled very slowly. The prisoners sat in iVogon Poetry Appreciation chairs – strapped in.
The sweat stood out cold on Ford Prefect's brow, and slid round the electrodes strapped to his temples. These were attached to a battery of electronic equipment – imagery intensifiers, rhythmic modulators, alliterative residulators and simile dumpers - all designed to heighten the experience of the poem and make sure that not a single nuance was lost.
Arthur Dent sat and quivered. He had no idea what he was in for, but he knew that he hadn't liked anything that had happened so far and didn't think things were likely to change.
A video about a manufacturing process began to play, and the iVogon began to read a fetid little passage of his own devising.
"The new MacBook Pro is tenderly bathed in baby oil...", he began. Spasms wracked Ford's body - this was worse than ever he'd been prepared for.
"...to perfect the intracious circumfilanicity of the chamfered edges..."
"Aaaaaaargggghhhh!" went Ford Prefect, wrenching his head back as lumps of pain thumped through it. He could dimly see beside him Arthur lolling and rolling in his seat. He clenched his teeth.
The iVogon tilted his head to an impossible angle and his voice was reaching a new level of icky, impassioned softness, reminiscent of being massaged while covered in honey and sardines.
"Lusciously laser sculpted and polished to velvety perfection on a subatomic level with a delicate drizzle of colibri egg yolk."
"Nnnnnnnnnnyyyyyyyuuuuuuurrrrrrrggggggghhhhh!" cried Ford Prefect and threw one final spasm as the electronic enhancement of the last line caught him full blast across the temples. He went limp.
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
But you can buy a $40 dongle with the escape button, no? xD
First they removed the headphones, then the ESC key, now if they could remove themselves that'd be the final step to complete the circle of innovation
Which looks amazing to work with. It looks more 'Apple' than anything the spastics at Apple actually come up with these days. And for the ridiculous price, you're actually getting some decent hardware.
Apple fucked it up completely. I honestly don't understand it.
First of all, prices have gone up by 15-20%. For that, you lose the ability to connect any display except a few released in the last couple of months. Overpaid the €1200 for your precious Thunderbolt Display? Yeah, get an adapter for that too. You most likely can't connect your keyboard, mouse or flash drive without an adapter. Still need an adapter for ethernet too.
So the base €2700 (!) 15" MBP still needs €200 in adapters to connect everything a lot of people have. And then it still only gets 256 GB of storage, for which an upgrade costs twice as much as a drive of whatever size you're upgrading to really costs. At least here in Europe the EU forces them to give us 2 year warranty, because otherwise it would also only have 1 year of their bullshit "limited" warranty.
And then they say the touch bar is for "pros"...except it's the "pros" who use the escape key the most. Never mind the function keys, just the escape key alone is used way more than the touch bar ever will be.
It quite honestly is a bloody joke. For that money, the 1-year warranty is just unacceptable. And not putting even a single adapter in the box is equally ridiculous. I should be replacing my laptop, because from a business perspective it's "written off" but I'll just keep mine until it goes up in smoke. Which it probably will do at some point, because it gets to about 100 degrees when I'm compiling stuff
And then there is MS indeed, who have been absolutely nailing their shit (well, not phones ) lately. I'm thoroughly impressed by how well the Surface Pros work and run and this new Surface Studio even has some die-hard Apple users I know considering it (most being graphic designers).
Affordability is "absolutely something we care about," Schiller says. "But we don't design for price, we design for the experience and the quality people expect from Mac. Sometimes that means we end up at the higher end of the range, but not on purpose, just because that's what it costs."
Did they just really admit openly "We dont design it for usefulness or power, we design for it how it look to others while you try to use it."
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Why can’t you plug the Lightning headphones that come in the iPhone box into the new Mac? Why doesn’t the iPhone come with the right cable for the new MacBook Pro? Why doesn’t Apple make a screen that properly works with its own devices? Why did Apple highlight how great the Touch Bar is for Messaging, but didn’t even port most of the new iMessage features to macOS properly? Do I have to carry two pairs of headphones now? How do I charge my Lightning cable mouse? Why remove the HDMI port, a standard that’s still incredibly popular for plugging into TVs? Why remove the SD card, a popular slot for… creatives using cameras?
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The new MacBook Pro has a Skylake chip, not the Kaby Lake one that’s recently landed– if you look at benchmarks at the top-end it’s pretty clear something is wrong: the CPU in this MacBook Pro actually appears to perform worse than the older one.
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