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My guess is that they are likely including AirPlay receiver functionality in iOS 6. They have allowed these apps to exist for ages and are just now pulling them prior to WWDC where iOS 6 will likely be released to developers. As usual Apple is showing no tact in removing apps the will duplicate future functionality. The non public or non sanctioned reasoning provided is just a cover for that real reason. I’m not sure why they just couldn’t wait until iOS 6 ships to deal with this though.

Sure you can scroll through it quickly, but having tiles spanning the entire screen means you have to move the cursor further to click on certain items. It’s an inefficient desktop design.

The tiles and wasted space aren’t efficient with a mouse. The only thing saving it are keyboard shortcuts, which would still be better utilized with the old UI. There’s also a reason hot corners are optional on OS X, not so with Metro.

I remember nothing but praise and laughter over what Window borrowed from OSX. I don’t recall the negativity. It fixed Vista, what was there not to like?

Windows 8 is the most divisive Microsoft product to date.

The Air was the price/performance leader in its category for ages. Premium windows laptops have comparable prices to MBP and the iMacs pricing is competitive. This meme is getting rather old. Apple’s one major fault is that their prices are largely static, so the value you get for a mac product goes down as it gets older without a matching price drop.

They may like to dabble in tablets, but the workstation is their bread and butter. Time will tell.

I doubt it will come anywhere close to Windows 7 sales numbers unless tablets really carry it, but at the expected prices for x86 tablets ($1000+) I just don’t see it happening. I am biased because I hate the UI, but Microsoft hasn’t had a massively successful rebirth since Windows 95. Windows Me and VIsta sucked, and Microsoft needed to release XP and 7 to get the massive sales. I’m expecting a miss on Microsofts hit and miss cycle. The wild card is the tablet side, but I think they sacrificed too much on the desktop cycle to be a real hit. Enterprise sales will likely be non-existent.

Digital formats are a lot more flexible than analog connections, which the dock connector also provides. Dedicated channels are generally better than formats that must endure a conversion at the end, even with digital formats. If a conversion is required, a chip is required, and I’d rather see it on the device instead of on every accessory. Micro USB cannot replace all the functionality of the current dock connector, who knows if that will hold for this future one though.

If anything, this looks like the cinema display. The current iMac has chin, this doesn’t. Years ago, Apple kept the internals in the base, but not now, and those iMacs didn’t lok like this. I’d say the design is Apple inspired, they popularized the aluminium with black bezel look, but it’s not an iMac clone.

Even if you bring up ergonomics, mice have nothing to do with your trackpad, neither does your PlayBook.

Conversely, your reply tells us everything we need to know about you. You lose all reason when talking about Apple. I doubt anyone asking Siri that question was actually looking for a real answer.

I don’t think they care if you’re personally going to buy one. It’s good news that these prices are creeping down. It one step closer to the purchasable range for us normal folk.

That analogy doesn’t fit at all. They’ve said all along that this was coming in 2012. They’ve had some hiccups, but nothing like Duke Nukem Forever, which had development started and halted and restarted with different developers, while taking longer to release than Tesla motors had existed. And after all that, it turned out to be a terrible game. I’m just not seeing the connection here.

The Envy is a premium laptop, a category where the MBP is the market leader. I don’t think it’s coincidence that it shares some familiarities with that market leader. Clone is really the wrong word, but I think the source of inspiration for these products is clearly written into their design language. I’m not suggesting Apple products were the first, just that they are a source of inspiration and denying that inspiration is kind of like trying to bluff with your cards facing out.

Not really. The whole ultrabook category is Macbook Air inspired. They are building laptops in this manner because Apple popularized the category and proved it could drive significant sales. They should really just roll with it instead of suggesting Apple had nothing to do with their designs. Apple wasn’t necessarily the first, but the popularity of their products has led other manufacturers to follow suite.

I agree though, unless a laptop is visually distinctive from a Mac, they’ll be accused of copying Apple. Just like unless a car is visually distinctive from a Corvette, they’ll be accused of copying Chevrolet…

This finally sucked me in.

Most 0% financing deals also offer a cash discount if you pay it all at once. How many times have you seen something like “0% financing or $2000 cash back”? The 0% financing is often more of a marketing term than anything else, and only possible through some creative accounting.

So after they slaughter the cow for beef, what would you like them to do with the hide?

It’s great that you looked at the pictures and read the big orange letters, but there’s an article too. In fact, in the same sentence as your quote they say this:

RIM could throw a curveball and release a device with a physical keyboard at the launch of the OS

PS: “it can work as” doesn’t mean “it will only works as”.

Their goal is to sell hardware. iTunes came to Windows to sell iPods. No idea why Safari is on Windows.

10 years ago Microsofts latest and greatest was XP. I’m not sure how Kaspersky thinks you can be behind something you’re ahead of.

XP’s the same OS I had when I bought a computer for University, plugged it into my dorms network and had a worm shutting it down before I could even download the AV software I was planning on getting.

You don’t have to be first to be the most recognizable. Nor do you have to be first to be the inspiration for other devices. You guys get a little too defensive when someone points out similarities between other devices and the iPhone.

Regardless of whether or not they were first, this does share a lot of similarities with the iPhone, which isn’t a bad thing.