Posted on 09/09/2015 2:43:29 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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Given that we’re not going to have a separate iPad event this year, I’m not surprised that MacOS X 10.11 will be released at the end of this month.
Will they finally fix the HDMI driver?
Apple sure does have this ‘planned obsolescence’ thing down pat....
Apple sure does have this ‘planned obsolescence’ thing down pat....
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Some of us call it “continuous improvement”. As long as it is change for the better I’m OK with change—nothing stays still.
They just announced all new iPads. . . including the iPad Pro, spent a good half-hour to forty minutes doing it. Adding two very nice accessories for it, the Apple Pencil and the Keyboard cover. Why would the need a dedicated event for the iPad?
What do you think is wrong with the HDMI driver? Works fine here.
Thank-you Apple! Will upgrade when it is out. Have had it with the Yosemite.
What are you talking about?
OS X.11 El Capitan's compatibility list:
That's eight years old or newer Macs are being supported with the newest OS X iteration, where's the "planned obsolescence," ErnBatavia? The older Macs still run on the older OS X. If they cannot run OS X El Capitan, it generally is because they lack the hardware to do so, not because Apple is deliberately locking them out. They just physically lack the ability to run some of the important upgrades in the newer version.
I have clients who are quite happily using ten year old Macs. . . they work, so they are not obsolete.
A new version of their “phones” every few months smacks of planned obsolescence to me....
Uhhh...last time I checked they update their phones once a year, just like cars, appliances, computers, etc., etc.
Or are all of those planned obsolescence too?
I know, you are still driving a Model T, aren’t you?
Uh, then you don't know what you are talking about, Ern.
Apple releases new iPhones once a year, not every few months. Samsung, HTC, LG, and the other Android phone companies release multiple phone models every four or five months. . . and again, many Apple iPhone users are still using three and four year old models with no problems. They are not "planned obsolescence" but updated models with new capabilities and better, faster processors, better cameras, etc.
That doesn't make the ones already out obsolete. In fact, only 30% of people with iPhones upgraded to the iPhone 6 or 6plus last year, opting to hold on to their iPhone 4s, 5, or 5s, waiting for another year or so. The iPhone 4s was released 4 years ago. . . and a lot of people are still using it. The iPhone 5, three years ago, 5s, two years. That is not frequent releases.
As a matter of fact, iOS 9, the new version of the operating system that will be coming out on September 16th, will run on every iPhone from the 4s onward. You cannot say the same thing about ANY Android new OS release. In fact, the latest iOS 8 has been adopted by 93% of all iOS devices in the wild. . . again proof of no obsolescence.
On the other hand, only 15.5% of Android users have adopted the latest OS version of that system. Many of even the latest Android phones cannot be upgraded, because they truly are obsolete.
In just 2015 alone, Samsung released 24 different smartphones. . . and there still are three months yet to go. That's not counting different memory sizes.
”Planned obsolescence” relates to the intentional holding back of features from present products with a view to gratuitously inducing customers to upgrade in the near future. Digital electronics has been subject to Moore’s Law, which predicts geometrically improving product cost-effectiveness. There is no need to “plan” obsolescence in devices subject to Moore’s Law; rapid obsolescence inheres in the development process. Caveat emptor; under Moore’s Law conditions nobody should buy a new digital device unless they feel it will be worth at least half its price just in the first two years. Otherwise, it will pay to wait - and no vendor will be able to convince you otherwise.In that dynamic marketplace, deliberately degrading your product is a good way to see your lunch eaten by a competitor. What could look like "planned obsolescence" is conservatism in seeking to avoid selling buggy software with too much vulnerability to malware.
There was a time when it seemed necessary to carefully husband your disk space; Moore’s Law has taken hold in that context, and now it is (IMHO) sensible to consider that if you run out of disk space you can simply upgrade to a much larger disk with far less aggravation.
I have my macbook connected to an external monitor with HDMI and the text is blurry. A lot of peope have that problem going back to 2012.
True. But the OS updates are free. Of course, older devices can’t run it.
Thank you!
Have you tried a different external monitor? A few years back (in 2012) I connected my Mac Mini via HDMI to a newly purchased HD monitor, and had bad results. I returned the monitor (which was made in the U.S.A. - probably the only one made here), and bought a Samsung HD monitor. The Samsung monitor works great. Your problem is probably with the choice of HD monitor; they're not all alike. Some do HDMI poorly. Samsung does HDMI well. Try switching to a Samsung monitor (and mine is paired with a Samsung sound bar) for a great HD experience with Macs.
You know what I’m looking forward to?El Cap is supposed to make it easy to see your cursor when you move your mouse around rapidly trying to find the cursor. It’s such a simple idea that It’s amazing they didn’t do it before. Now that they’ve mentioned it, it seems so simple, and so handy. I imagine they’ll allow you to customize how it works . . . and maybe not.
It seems like any rapid movement of the cursor would imply that you don’t need precision pointing yet, so the cursor should be enlarged for easy visibility.
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