The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thread!

[Ken]

THANKS APPLE FOR HAVING THE "COURAGE" TO "FORCE TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT" WITH NO REAL SOLUTION. YOU'RE THE REAL MVP.

are you inferring they came up with a fake solution? they say "use bluetooth or this new tech that sucks less." they may not be forcing advancement, but they're forcing change... for the better. i don't think coming up with a proprietary wireless solution was the perfect answer, but this at least gets the ball rolling. had they sat down with the boards who control standards, they'd be drafting a new wireless spec for the next 10 years, which would be outdated by the time we got it.

That's still change for change's sake. They have offered nothing better as an alternative, and no they didn't come up with proprietary wireless solution. They developed a proprietary wireless chip that still uses ultralow-power bluetooth. Nothing new, nothing groundbreaking. Basically just accelerometers in the buds so that you can access Siri (which still sucks.)

I get what you're trying to get at, but if you're not presenting me with something better than why should i change? Especially when it was so easy to keep the port, it's not like floppy disc or DVD drive which legitimately took up space and the technologies existing were already better. "Forcing technological advancement" is a bullshit excuse.

As for the losing money, please. You don't think they crunched the numbers on the amount of users they'd lose to this and the amount they'd make by selling more headphones (both new an replacements)?