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14 years ago @ 9 to 5 Mac | Apple Int... - iPhone 4S / 5 appears ... · 0 replies · -4 points

iPhone 5 and iOS 5 together has a certain simplicity to it. iOS 6 next year with an LTE iPhone 5?

14 years ago @ 9 to 5 Mac | Apple Int... - Apple confirms October... · 0 replies · +1 points

How about the return of Hodgman to do the intro to bring Tim out!

14 years ago @ 9 to 5 Mac | Apple Int... - Apple confirms October... · 0 replies · +1 points

When the iPhone 4 was released they did announce an updated 3GS with only 8G storage and a new price. I thought it significant in the earnings call that then emphasized thereafter that Apple was clear that they had two new products. My assumption is that they will have to make a iPhone 4 world phone and it will be a new model (like the Verizon 4, but with a sim tray and the ability to use T-Mobiles bands + any other weird bands (isn't Korea different?)) and would only have 8GB if there was an iPhone 5.

14 years ago @ 9 to 5 Mac | Apple Int... - Apple confirms October... · 14 replies · +123 points

Reading the icons left to right:
Tuesday October, 4, 2011
At 10:00 am
At 1 Infinite Loop
*There is only one phone to announce.*

--You've been warning us, 9to5 Mac, that our iPhone 5 hopes were unconfirmable.

14 years ago @ 9 to 5 Mac | Apple Int... - Intel: Optical Thunder... · 3 replies · +3 points

work with me on this. I've got a MacBook Air with an external monitor. Monitors are only at the end of the chain, right? So if I want to add or remove a thunderbolt raid, or this new printer, I lose the monitor.

I see that use case as a disincentive for consumers to stop using their USB hubs and thus a disincentive for manufacturers to invest in the Thunderbolt implementation.

What I'm hoping is that someone will say that inexpensive hubs are possible or that machines will have multiple thunderbolt ports.

14 years ago @ 9 to 5 Mac | Apple Int... - Intel: Optical Thunder... · 6 replies · +2 points

Can someone talk to me about daisy-chaining in lieu of the hub approach?

So I've got something so cool I can use it instead of hdmi, pci, e-sata, and USB. But I'm scared that if I disconnect anything in the chain I'm gonna lose the rest of the chain. Now I have not unplugged my printer for over two years. I only unplug storage a few times a year--less now that I have time machine. This means I want more stuff on a hub (which happens to be USB) and only hi-performance gear that I am never going to unplug on the daisy chain (which happens to be thunderbolt). If I can't plug it into a hub without thinking what order it is in the chain, I'm just gonna go usb.

If I'm normal, then manufacturers will continue to make consumer gadgets that plug into a hub.

This all assumes that there is only going to be one thunderbolt port on my machine, that my airport is gonna have usb and not thunderbolt and that thunderbolt doesn't do hubs as cheaply as usb (and my understanding is thunderbolt is exactly about overcoming the side effects that come with the degradation that is part and parcel of usb's ability to use hubs.

15 years ago @ 9 to 5 Mac | Apple Int... - What do we expect in i... · 0 replies · -3 points

I am hoping NFC will be a new aspect of iOS 5 so I'm expecting iPad 2 to be fully capable.

15 years ago @ 9 to 5 Mac | Apple Int... - First Thunderbolt prod... · 1 reply · 0 points

Could Apple add thunderbolt to iProds so that they can talk USB and thunderbolt? (Like the do with the MacBook audio out that is also the audio in? Or my old MacMini DVI out that was also wired for S-video.) If no one but Apple will have computers with Thunderbolt for a year, then we are stuck with an intractable chicken-and-egg obstacle in the way of any transition. I don't see Apple putting two connectors on an iPhone!

Compatible products will be make or break. The genius is that it already does something: drive Apple monitors.

Edit: What I'm really asking I guess if 30-pin connector will work with this?

15 years ago @ 9 to 5 Mac | Apple Int... - Light Peak will be cal... · 1 reply · +2 points

Absolutely agree; but if it goes to copper instead of optical initially, then the "light" part had to be dropped?

15 years ago @ 9 to 5 Mac | Apple Int... - iWork '11 launches Feb... · 0 replies · +1 points

How do you guys find these? The internet still amazes me.

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