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Going too far with the control freak thing	8 votes - 80 %
Only doing what's right for customers, whether they realize it or not	2 votes - 20 %
Other in Comments	0 votes - 0 %

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Well you miserable pricks | 12 comments (12 topical, 0 hidden)

... by ammoniacal (4.00 / 3) #1 Fri Jun 22, 2012 at 10:26:53 AM EST

"To this day that was the most bullshit caesar salad I have every experienced..." - triggerfinger

: lol by Gedvondur (4.00 / 1) #2 Fri Jun 22, 2012 at 10:33:53 AM EST

Perfect. Exactly how I am feeling this morning. Made me laugh. Thanks. :-)

"So I will be hitting the snatch hard, I think, tonight." - gzt
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: My theory... by Vulch (4.00 / 1) #7 Fri Jun 22, 2012 at 04:09:34 PM EST

Any film with Donald Sutherland in it can be, or already has been, made better.

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eh... by Metatone (4.00 / 2) #3 Fri Jun 22, 2012 at 10:34:16 AM EST

rant me again when it's more than a rumour...

Yeah by jump the ladder (2.00 / 0) #4 Fri Jun 22, 2012 at 10:42:21 AM EST

Where's my 7.8" iPad that every site said was a certainty.

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: in steve jobs tomb by darkbrown (4.00 / 3) #5 Fri Jun 22, 2012 at 11:25:05 AM EST

with the 4.5" iphone

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rant it for me one more time by aphrael (4.00 / 1) #6 Fri Jun 22, 2012 at 02:18:02 PM EST

once is never enough.
If television is a babysitter, the internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

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it gets better by dev trash (2.00 / 0) #8 Fri Jun 22, 2012 at 06:48:02 PM EST

I hear they have plans for a Nano-Usb connector.

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I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR BALLS! ->clock

Seriously? by lm (2.00 / 0) #9 Fri Jun 22, 2012 at 07:00:48 PM EST

The iPhone has been using the same connector since the first generation in 2007.

How many other mobile phone vendors can say the same? It seems like almost every mobile phone I or my immediate family has purchased over the last five years has had a different connector. I've probably got five different variations of USB cables alone, let alone the non-USB proprietary adaptors.

Not to mention that the while the form factor may not change, real estate inside that form factor is precious. If they can reduce the size of the plug by half, that gives them a whole lot more room to interesting things with in the silicon.

The money issue, if the rumors are correct, and the new adaptor will only work with Apple approved devices is a happy side effect for Apple.

But I bet it will take all of two weeks, if that, for adaptors for the old style plugs to the new style plug to start showing up.

Kindness is an act of rebellion.

Yes, seriously by Gedvondur (2.00 / 0) #10 Fri Jun 22, 2012 at 11:45:33 PM EST

It's not a happy side-effect. It's by design and it's anti-consumer horseshit. The changes have have been wrought to the USB port are minor at best; easily adaptable and USB is cheap. As far as I know, Apple is the LAST company to continue to use proprietary connectors. (Mostly because the EU has required that companies use USB for charging)

All of those docks, speakers, and other set-in devices are suddenly useless. The only reason the old connector was tolerable was because of it's wide adoption. Sure, Apple gains a little bit of space, but a ton of space? No, not really. And at the cost of fucking over their customers with more apple-only horse-shit it hardly seems worth it.

Apple's walled garden is looking more and more like an insane asylum with cruel capricious nurses and doctors. I've only ever owned Apple smart phones and even I am beginning to think of moving somewhere else. This is an anti-consumer decision with very little upside.

"So I will be hitting the snatch hard, I think, tonight." - gzt

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: I don't quite get your underlying point by lm (2.00 / 0) #11 Sat Jun 23, 2012 at 07:55:31 AM EST

The only reason that the old connector was tolerable was because it was wides spread but they shouldn't be moving to a new connector? That's kind of silly.
But I do understand the anger and frustration. Anyone with a large number of accessories, if there is no functional adaptor, will be SOL if they get the new product.
Kindness is an act of rebellion.
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they'll go out by MillMan

(2.00 / 0) #13 Sat Jun 23, 2012 at 07:29:50 PM EST

the same way Sony did. Eventually.

"Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, there are no libertarians in financial crises." -Krugman

Well you miserable pricks | 12 comments (12 topical, 0 hidden)


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