Myke is back to talk about dongles. I have opinions about the Mac Pro. Federico is trying a new notes app.
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There’s been a lot of handwringing and worry over the state of a single computer in Apple’s lineup:
Children, if you aren’t sure what a Mac Pro is, go ask your parents. Maybe they have some old pictures somewhere.
No doubt the Mac Pro is in a bad spot. Apple skipped a generation of Xeons and is now waiting of Intel to get Skylake-E ready. As Apple is stuck waiting on Intel, the Mac Pro grows older by the day.
Apple announced Friday that it will significantly cut the prices of the USB-C adapters it sells in its stores, following backlash to the lack of full-size USB, SD card or HDMI ports in the new line of MacBook Pro laptops.
The price cuts include these items:
According to Jim Dalrymple, Apple’s statement included this:
This morning, we launched a new show named Mixed Feelings over at Relay FM:
Mixed Feelings is a show about news, politics and pop culture. Every episode, your hosts talk about their favorite stories of the week … and probably at least one random current event that has nothing to do with anything.
It’s been great to get to know the hosts Quinn Rose and Gillian Parker and help them get this new podcast launched. It’s something new and different from our normal topics, and I absolutely love it.
This week on Connected, we talk about my new MacBook Pro, Federico’s new Amazon Echo Dot and the future of everything.
My thanks to our sponsors who helped us book our special musical guest.
In an Interview with The Independent, in response to a question about leaving the headphone port in the new notebook:
If it was just about headphones then it doesn’t need to be there, we believe that wireless is a great solution for headphones. But many users have setups with studio monitors, amps, and other pro audio gear that do not have wireless solutions and need the 3.5mm jack.
There’s been a lot of talk and handwringing over the new MacBook Pro’s Thunderbolt 3 ports.
Here’s a bit from my rumor roundup post I published before the event:
I/O is important to professionals. Pros often have a lot of things plugged in, from hard drives to SD cards to external displays. I’m not in love with the idea of using adaptors for almost everything I need to plug in to a notebook.
Six months ago, we launched Talkshow in the App Store, with the goal of giving people an easy way to have simple, uncluttered conversations in public. Today we have some tough news: on Thursday December 1, we’re shutting down the Talkshow app and website. While we have enjoyed the conversations that have happened on Talkshow, and are grateful for the community that has formed around the product, we don’t see it getting big enough to have the impact we had hoped for. We’re sorry, and we’re going to try to handle this transition in the right way.
Today we’re making Instapaper Premium available to all Instapaper users, free of charge. Instapaper Premium is the best way to experience all that Instapaper has to offer, and we’re excited to open it up to everyone.
This means that all users will get what was used to be reserved for paying customers:
I’ve been paying for Instapaper Premium for years. I’ve seen some concern from users that this is a bad sign that the service is going to be integrated into Pinterest at some point. I sure hope that doesn’t happen; I love Instapaper as much today as I did five years ago.
MacBook Pro models introduced in late 2016 feature Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports that let you connect devices and displays, charge your computer, and provide power to connected devices—all through one simple, compact USB-C connector.
When Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 he shut down the internal Apple museum and moved everything to Stanford. So Schiller’s comments are in line with this stance. Yet we can find several recent examples of Apple taking the time and effort to resurrect and create new imagery of several of their older machines to support the narrative of the product or service being introduced.
Zufi’s post is full of example’s changing stance on its past. It probably comes as no surprise, but I’m a fan of this change.