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Apple again missing the point. It's not about the money, but about having to deal with dongles and adapters.

I've been using Cordova in production for this past year and it's a real PITA on iOS. - UIWebView is slow and so broken - WKWebView is fast and so broken https://bugs.webkit.org&#…

Design is about solving problems in a particular medium. It's staggering the number of young graphic designer divas out there that believe are making art.

Optical drives didn't go extinct because Apple removed them, but because USB sticks were much more useful. RJ45 went extinct because everyone uses Wifi. In both cases Apple didn't set a tren…

I didn't. The superdrive on my MBP 2007 died pretty fast and I never missed it. When I bought my 2011 MBP I removed the superdrive and installed a second hard drive. And that was just one model, …

Yes, but IIRC in 1998 it was pretty clear floppy disks were on their way out. I had my first PC with an optical drive around 1994 and there was no question that was the way of the future. Mice and key…

Nobody used floppy drives or optical ones when Apple removed them. Most people still use USB-A accessories. See the difference?

> you won't use anymore after two years? Probably more like 5 years at best. Removing all USB-A ports would have been a bold move in 2018, but in 2016 it's delusional.

Quite the contrary. Apple has delusions of grandeur if it thinks it can change an entire industry with a less than 10% market share.

I bought the first Macbook with a thunderbolt port 5 years ago and I bought my first Thunderbolt peripheral 2 months ago. In those 5 years I've never seen anybody using Thunderbolt for anything o…

Games, yes, but this would probably also open the door to high performance web apps.

FWIW macOS also requires reboot for system updates.

> The autoupdates load garbage onto your computer (Candy Crush Soda Saga?) I've been using Windows 10 before it had a public release and I've never seen anything like this on my machines.…

> In fact, I am worried about applications gradually putting information only on the Touch Bar that cannot be found anywhere else. I doubt that is going to happen. What percentage of macOS users ar…

Don't forget the audio guys. Logic has been neglected for such a long time. Unlike Final Cut and Garage Band it didn't even get a mention in the Hello Again event.

> In my opinion much better than with macOS Could you elaborate on that?

> People wanted Skylake, they got Skylake Yes, at the end of 2015, not at the end of the skylake cycle. > They got faster GPU Still way behind what Nvidia is doing with the 10 series. > The m…

- 6th gen processors - gimmigck touch bar - no USB-A ports - no SD card reader - no magsafe - super expensive for what you get

> I think Microsoft should have sell that monitor by itself, but I guess this way they could not shovel win10 updates down your throat so it is not a good option for them... I'd buy that monit…

> they're never happy It's hard to be happy with that little trash can. The tower models were great. It's a shame Apple stopped updating those.

The 2013 Mac pro was a very powerful Mac Mini with lots of terrible design choices. So many pros hated it and Apple hasn't bothered to upgrade it in 3 years. The Watch and Pencil are accessories,…

I'd love to buy one if only I could. Still no Google products in Mexico.

Thanks for the info. From what I've seen things haven't changed much. The idea still seems to be that Forms is for simple apps that use a number of common components.

Superior? Depends on what you are doing. Working with game engines is a joy since you write "client" code, so to speak, and the engine is compiled for each platform. QT is also really good, …

Last time I checked Xamarin Forms about a year ago it was still limited. Is it better now? What are some of its limitations?

Also the terrible docs

Mobile development in general is a pita. We really need a native cross platform solution that doesn't involve either running a JavaScript VM (ReactNative, NativeScript), writing UI code for each …

Or NativeScript