Tell your buddies at Apple that it’s totally fucking ridiculous in this day and age that I can’t rewind the baseball game I’m watching on their service.
I put on the Braves/Rockies game because it was 0-0 in the 7/8th, had to walk outside for a call, and missed the 3 runs the Braves scored in the 10th.
No new Mac Pro today, so no new Airport.
Learned yesterday that the peacock streaming service will allow you to pause and rewind live sports, unlike apple.
Peacock!?!
But a very nice looking MB Air, which I’ll probably pick up to replace my awful 2017 MBP.
Yeah. They brought back the MagSafe charging port too.
So, look for Apple bin the charging port and be all-in on MagSafe induction charging by 2023.
Why the fuck won’t Apple just get with the program and go to USB-C? Why do they have to be different? Either figure out a way to go wireless charging or get with the fucking program.
But more importantly…what will become of my wired headphones? I have to use a fucking dongle now because of Apple’s current design incompentency, but at least there’s a way for the user to overcome it. No port? We’re all fucked.
I’m sure they’ll come up with some preposterous MagSafe headphone adapter.
For a company that digs its heels in against being forced to a charging standard, they are bent on dragging me into Bluetooth hell.
I was baiting you, to be fair. At this point, all iPhones have induction charging, I believe. Also, the fanboi rumor mill has been saying for a while that Apple is going to switch to USB-C for its iDevices.
On a broader point, there is an issue here with potential overregulation. For example, where would we be if this had been done before the advent of smartphones, such that every phone had to be charged using mini-USB or whatever the fuck it was we used to charge our Nokia Razors? The dramatic increase in battery size in smartphones would’ve meant we were stuck with ungodly charging times, waiting for the famously glacial EU to get its shit together to update the regs.
If we’re going to do things like this, then they should regulate that the gas cap / charge port on every vehicle should be on the driver’s side. If you can flip the inside of the car for left/right-side driving, how hard is it to move the gas cap/charge port?
Overregulation in the EU? Say it ain’t so…
Yep. So when someone invents a fuel cell, small enough to fit in a phone, that has to be refilled with water, but the phone is required by EU regulation to have a USB-C port…
Yeah, and it’s only a matter of time until USB-C itself is obsolete. We’re a ways away from that, but it’s inevitable.
Semi-related: I walked past my 13-year-old son’s room the other day and saw him lying in bed, holding his Qi charging pad to the back of his iPhone while using it. (His phone is older and doesn’t have MagSafe.) “What are you doing?” “My battery was low.” “Why don’t you just plug in a charging cable?” He gave me the same empty look of complete non-comprehension that you typically see on dogs. Clearly this is Tim Cook’s target demographic.
And to be clear, I’m not suggesting mandating USB-C or one standard over another, only complaining that Apple is run by sadistic assholes.
This certainly distinguishes them in the tech industry.
White, male sadistic assholes. Eh? Oh.
My iPad Pro is USB-C charging.
WTF does that have to do with fuel cells and gas cap positioning?
C’mon man, keep up!
Sorry. I only just now stopped trying to cram the lightning connector into the USB-C jack.
That’s ok…Limey has been trying to plug in through his gas cap for the past year. He keeps yelling “BOLLOCKS!” when it doesn’t fit.