[OSX-Users] The going unProRe: "Great for hackers" Surprise view on MacBook Pro

[Leslie Carr]

But you can add an SD card reader through your USB-C interface.
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Les

On 28 Nov 2016, at 16:16, m.c. schraefel <mc at ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:mc at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:

Sure
Good point.
Its funny to see something as simple as loss of an sd card reader feel like such a betrayal…
Very first world.

m.c.

On 28 Nov 2016, at 16:11, Leslie Carr <lac at ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:lac at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:

Or is no longer driven by the pro market. I don’t really agree with the “no innovation” argument.
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Les


On 28 Nov 2016, at 15:55, m.c. schraefel <mc at ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:mc at ecs.soton.ac.uk><mailto:mc at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:

Really interesting article, Chris
And I share the lament about the Mac Pro, and more the Mac mini.

The biggest complaints about the whole apple computer experience (they’re no longer apple computer in name anyway anymore) are colleagues in music - both production and dh’ing - and in photography/video. The pro space is seeming to have gone away - as with innovation.

The article you quote reminds me of research around fundamental group structure - Dunbar’s number - of 148. At least one company (gortex) makes sure its divisions stay that size http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-01-10/the-dunbar-number-from-the-guru-of-social-networks

Remember seeing the images of its gigantic starship sized campus thinking “uh oh"

Perhaps apple’s just gone off the rails. Or is no longer run by the right kind of tyrant?

m.c.



On 28 Nov 2016, at 15:46, Chris Andrews <w at lfie.org<mailto:w at lfie.org><mailto:w at lfie.org>> wrote:

On the subject of other Macs, here's an interesting article about the possibility that Apple is having corporate culture problems:

http://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/11/27/13706776/apple-functional-divisional

It does present a possible explanation for the world's most valuable company being unable to update the niche-but-flagship Mac Pro or the niche-but-has-a-cult-following Mac Mini. The other explanation is that they just don't care and the machines are still on sale whilst they run down inventory and milk every last penny from those models before they go away forever.

Chris