Complicated? Frustrating? It’s an extra 3" on the end of your headphone cord. And it’s only proprietary if you’re dumb enough choose to buy the lightning corded headphones.

The point is that media ingestion was shifting from floppy to CD when the iMac was designed, so Apple ditched the floppy drive and included a built-in CD drive. They were the first to decide to ditch the outgoing media tech and replace it with the incoming one, and there was much teeth gnashing at the time, but Apple…

The Air was most certainly a game changer and you’d be a fool to discredit that. I do agree it was more evolutionary than revolutionary, but you don’t need to be revolutionary to be a game-changer.

> Wow, I didn’t realize we had Apple to thank for laptops getting thinner and lighter!

I mean, the model T was the result of a steady improvement in industrial processes that allowed Ford to produce a cheap, reliable car for the masses. But what made it important was that it was the first to market and the archetype that every other car manufacturer would strive to beat. It took them years to catch up.

In Apple’s defense, Windows does not support commercial bluray movie playback either. In fact, Windows no longer supports DVD playback either (which Apple does).

I absolutely remember how the Macbook Air’s lack of CD-ROM drive was the biggest scandal ever. Especially at that price! And Jobs did his usual Apple thing of telling everyone they didn’t need a CD drive anyway, and that data would be stored in the cloud and not on discs. I was unimpressed.

Everything in this post is either fact or previously reported and well documented allegations, apart from me questioning whether or not he’s out of touch based on an overwhelming amount of evidence.

I have to say, FaceID works far, far better than I would have ever expected. It consistently unlocks in the amount of time it takes to swipe up and is at least as quick as my iPhone 7. Pulling it out of my pocket, it often unlocks as I’m lifting the phone to my face.

You don’t need a passcode to answer calls on an iphone.

They actually had those in the 50's and 60's. Not a success for many reasons.

no one had starred this, despite it being full of facts, which makes me distrust most of the commenters on this particular blog

My first trip to Portland thirteen years ago, this happened:

Counterpoint: I have never in my life liked every song on an album. Streaming allows me to make a playlist of just the songs that I LIKE whereas purchasing would charge me 2 bucks per song or purchase the whole damn album. There is absolutely zero savings to Value ratio in that scenario.

Yes, that’s my point.

This tool may be useful for worldwide travel or something, but it seems pretty useless the closer you look. I know Ohio is no liberal utopia, but Columbus is by far the most gay-friendly city in the entire state and has a lower score than most of the rest of the state, including tiny river towns. It seems that maybe…

And you think that those students just wouldn’t go to business school if there wasn’t brand new housing? They would just push people out of other housing.

Then they aren’t building housing fast enough. Why would more housing ever drive up costs?

Yeah. Stop trying to live in an overpopulated city, dumbasses.

Counterpoint: You shouldn’t.

Until the cost is reflective of the product, you should consider purchasing a physical format that contains a lossless-equivalent digital version that can be converted to your bitrate of choice. If that choice changes as your listening needs change, you can re-rip. Until the quality is…