No, it’s selling it. The sale itself isn’t what killed it.
Companies/IP/Products get sold to other entities all the time, many continue on. What you’re upset at is the aftermath of the sale, so until such an event happens here I don’t see any reason to be concerned.
Pebble didn’t abandon itself, it was sold to Google who killed it.
The time to worry is if/when Beeper gets acquired.
macOS and Pages have long been many writer’s tools of choice. If you wife really wants windows or a windows app (or just a safety net while learning), Windows ARM can be downloaded for free and only has the following restrictions without a paid license:
Everything else works fine.
You can install UTM or the free version of VMware Fusion (current Tech Preview supports 3D video acceleration and fast drag and drop file transfer), allowing your wife to have a fully-functional Windows environment.
And the new MacBooks are incredibly fast and energy efficient. If all she’s doing is living in a word processor a MacBook Air will be more than enough, and should go about a full day or more on a single charge. Obviously with a windows VM the battery life will be slightly worse, but nowhere near as bad as many flagship windows laptops.
Yes thank you someone already pointed that out. I was mistaken about the 13 mini, admittedly because I had the 12 and skipped the 13.
Still, I was disappointed to see no 14 mini, and even more to see no mini at all this year. Additionally we had only 2 release cycles to buy/upgrade. IMO iPhones last so long it wasn’t even really enough time to know for sure if people liked them or not.
You’re right. That one I was weak on my spec knowledge as I got the 12 and skipped that year. I do remember being disappointed in no 14 mini. If only they had kept going for one more generation they might’ve had a few more upgrade from a prior model :/
I haven’t bought a single mini because it’s always nerfed in some way. I don’t want to compromise for not being able to comfortably hold the expensive model.
As soon as Apple releases a mini model that’s on par with the rest of the flagship lineup, I imagine these metrics will tell a different story.
Unfortunately it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen any time soon.
Keep in mind this is the same amount their adapters have been forever. They’re almost always in the $19-39 range.
When you think about it, adapters are some of the few inflation-free things Apple has sold.
Ehh, it’s subjective. If you find a specific phone with a specific plastic back you like, then awesome!
Personally, I can’t stand the feeling of plastic, and haven’t yet found a plastic phone that actually felt good.
That’s the beauty of the smartphone ecosystem right now. There’s a model for just about everyone. We don’t all have to be iPhone users :)
Checked again, still no attack here. :)
Hey man, we don’t know each other and shouldn’t get upset over a phone. Most people upgrade every 1-2 years and/or slap a case on their phones, so as you stated it doesn’t really matter what material the back is made of, since even if it cracks most people won’t have to look at it and their phone will probably work just fine anyway.
Apple has for a very long time now prioritized materials that are highly recyclable, feel good in the hand and look good. Traditionally, that’s glass and metal. That’s what you get with iPhones, and it hasn’t changed since they were first introduced with glass backs in 2017.
I didn’t say cracking your phone is a you thing, just that you seem by your own admission to crack phones a lot. If that’s true, then you should consider a case regardless of the phone you get or what material it’s made of.
My god, any disagreement on the internet anymore is immediately interpreted as a personal attack. Use the phone you want to use, smh.
I’ve literally never broken the glass on any of my phones ever, and have dropped them tons of times.
Maybe I’m just lucky but I don’t know that it’s as easy to do as you may think it is. Maybe in whatever setting you’re using a phone in, sure. In which case, absolutely a case is the right answer, glass back or no since you seem to be hard on your devices.
The benefits of glass evidently outweigh the one possible drawback of being easier to break. It’s not Apple’s fault you break your phones. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Plastic is horrible for the environment, feels cheap, shows fingerprints, and cracks (older iPhones with plastic backs had a problem with this).
The glass used is still glass, but REALLY TOUGH. Just get a case or AppleCare if you’re worried about dropping it……or don’t buy an $800+ phone if you’re prone to dropping them.
Would you rather they let it remain a surprise until you unbox the phone?
I watched the keynote and they didn’t hype it up anymore than “hey look, now there’s USB-C”. They never claimed it was new shit other than it being new to the product line.
Apple deserves criticism but all this USB-C hate is weird to me. This time last year people were pissed about the iPhone not having USB-C, now there’s a problem because they do.
If you haven’t tried them out recently I’d definitely recommend another go.
No switch port will ever run as well as it would on other current-gen gaming hardware, but I was pleasantly surprised at how much it has improved.
Fractured but whole used to have the WORST loading times at the start of a battle, or when fast traveling. Now they load within a couple seconds. Animations seem a bit smoother as well.
It took them long enough, but I’m glad it’s finally had some TLC. :)
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Increasing domestic manufacturing