Posted on 10/21/2010 12:38:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
“But make no mistake that today, with two unveilings, Apple has effectively sealed the fate of the optical disc in the computer industry. Soon, it will go the way of the floppy disk...”
Pure flabble-babble. This guy’s probably right that “optical” media will disappear eventually, at least as completely as records, cassettes, and floppy disks (which haven’t actually disappeared, but you know what I mean). Which he knows because he’s seen it happen with records, cassettes, and floppy disks. But Apple’s latest doo-dad has nothing to do with it.
The death of optical disks was carved in stone when the 2 TB SDXC standard was demonstrated two years ago.
Net books and tablets have eschewed optical drives including the vaunted blu-ray because of their low capacity, higher failure rate, and heat generation since at least as far back as 2005 when my 7” XP tablet was made.
It was inevitable that the larger machines would follow suit
The Mac App store will do more to kill CDs than this.
Buy online, use on all personally owned Macs, auto updates and re-download when needed.
The USB key really just saves Macbook Air owners the cost of Apple’s proprietary USB DVD drive.
Apple has effectively sealed the fate of the optical disc in the computer industry. Soon, it will go the way of the floppy disk... “
Uh huh.
Leave it up to the slobbering morons at TechCrunch to actually write something as dumb as this.
CDs have been falling out of use FOR YEARS. Did they miss the rise of portable hard drives and USB sticks?
But these iNuts need to find their daily “Apple has change our lives” fix, so why not pull this out of there rear?
Oh, yeah?! I still have three VCRs and they serve me just fine for recording and playing TV shows. I also know how to program them! So there!
Never mind.
I saw that the author is MG Siegler. The Maureen Dowd of tech bloggers.
I still have some of my old 8 track tapes. They were supposed to be the way of the future.
I think you answered your own question. :-)
If I am not mistaken, I am now the last known American who still has a record player.
I think they have been Do Not Folded, Stapled, Spindled, or Mutilated
First computer I ever booted was done with 16 toggle switches. Kids learning today can’t even count to f.
This is stupid...nearly all Tech pundits have recognized for ages that physical media is being slowly replaced by content downloads. Apple didn’t suddenly “kill” anything here. If anything it is simply one more indicator...but not the “end of” or the “beginning of the end” of anything.
"CDs have been under pressure for a over a decade — number one, they became trivial to reproduce; number two, their price didn’t come down appreciably even with the advent of the DVD; number three, music downloads, mp3s and other compressions..."
I've noticed lately that local bands who record their music for sale at their gigs are replacing CD sales with Flash Drive Sales.
Seems many of the services that deal in reproducing music for unsigned/independent bands now have a product that is a non-erasable Flash Drive that can hold not only a band's music but videos and photos and even links to the band's website.
So this claim of Apple killing the CD is a bit of a misnomer being that companies like "Disc Makers" have offered this service for nearly a year now.
speaking of punch cards fallout new vegas takes up about 7 gigs. A punch card can store about 24 kilobytes before it becomes impractical. So how many punch cards is it going to take to install my game?
You must be the other guy. I still have a perfectly operating Kenwood platter turner.
I used to teach computer classes and one day I was discussing thin clients and someone wanted to know what they were, I started to say "they are diskless" work stations and instead, in a class full of women, I said "they are dickless" work stations. Took a while to live that one down.
I consider it near heresy to listen Francis Albert’s vintage music on anything other than a scratchy, tinny vinyl. Frank knew the instrument with which he was working. We need to respect his vinyl-adapted nuances.
Listening to the Capital years on a CD is like watching a colorized “It’s a Wonderful Life.” For shame.
I still like reading the little booklets, and miss gatefold LPs.
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And the gatefold lps doubled as a very convenient way to rid your stash of seeds as well. Uh, so I heard.
Try doing that with a memory stick or even a cd.
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