Im sure it is. However, what we are seeing are MacBooks being trimmed of capability, to which the end user now needs to carry adapters. Thinner, lighter, and cheaper to make? Smartphones are now boring, they all carry the same great functionality. Laptops, the same, so you want a laptop that is as functional as is possible, not one that drops functions in place of adapters. And drops some capability to manage two functions at the same time, unless we buy double adapters. Seems a step backward to me.
From: "Kris Murray krismurray@gmail.com [iPad]" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
To: iPad@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, 31 October 2016 3:49 AM
Subject: Re: [iPad] griping for profit
Maybe the R&D goes into things we don't see or haven't seen or don't understand how complex and costly they are. Just guessing.
~KLM
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On Oct 29, 2016, at 3:28 PM, David Smith david.smith.14916@gmail.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups..com> wrote:
"To me, the article reads as though the writer was looking for things to complain about."
Maybe. But I sense a spreading unease with Apple. The articles I sent here were in that vein. Another, today, questions how Apple is spending all the billions it's putting into R&D. For a company that makes just a few consumer products, ten billion dollars looks like overkill. Or waste. At the same time, it's far less percentage-wise than Facebook spends on R&D. So it's worries at both ends. That is to say, ten billion dollars feels like too much for Macs and iDevices and too little for anything genuinely ambitious.
My gripes with the Tim Cook Apple have been for quite a while now pretty much along the "picky" lines of those of the writer of the howtogeek article. It's not just he, and it's not just the Wall Street Journal and Marketwatch and an editorial writer or three. The American media really want to love Apple, but they're coming up empty. I'd not be at all surprised if Tim Cook leaves before long.
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