Where did floppies go? I still have boxes of them
Not so fast. Until movies and music no longer come on CD/DVD, that won’t happen.
Optical discs aren’t just for software. Lots of people keep an extensive backup music or movie collection on disc because it’s portable and universal. Others like to author their own DVD movies or CD music discs. For those people, a computer without an optical drive would be useless.
I do believe you're right.
H&R Block was selling their “Tax-Cut” software on a thumb drive rather than a CD at least a year ago.
“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!
I still have some of my old 8 track tapes. They were supposed to be the way of the future.
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.
“underpowered and overpriced”
Pretty much every Apple product ever made.
Blu Ray laughs at jobs and the apple propaganda... if Americans can’t hold it in their hands and play it without the Internet... without a computer... it will never fly. Heard it all before. Bovine poop.
LLS
Good for Apple! I hated the CDs - you can’t rewind them.
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