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To: Shanghai Dan
Huh, Apple moving us forward on wireless? It's already a wireless world for headphones. Bluetooth and all that... The iPhone/Apple are doing zilch to cause this - it already happened.

What company was the first company to go entirely wireless on its shipped computers for its keyboards and mouses?

What company invented a means of recognizing wireless printers automatically on WIFI and/or Bluetooth and automatically connecting and installing the drivers called Bonjour and made it open source so all could use it?

What company was roundly criticized for eschewing cables and cutting the cord?

Oh. . . it was Apple.

Keep living in your PC and Android bubble world, Dan.

83 posted on 09/07/2016 7:55:56 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

First to offer all wireless keyboards and such? Anyone who had USB ports, since - with standard computers - any Bluetooth/wireless/WIFI keyboard works with that dongle. Apple “built it in” because - like all Apply fanbois demand - it had to look the same.

First wifi printers? Apple can (once again) thank Xerox for inventing that, getting going. But Apple likes to take things from other people

Cutting the cord? You mean the company that builds a “Pro” computer that has essentially ZERO internal expansion? And has consistently eschewed standard sizes and cages and such to force use of their own if it’s internal - but really pushes you to use external (Firewire, Thunderbolt) for all your peripherals...

And we’re talking HEADPHONES you goober - which were wireless WELL before. What does this iPhone bring there, other than FORCING you to use yet-another-adapter OR get wireless headphones?

But you don’t get it, because you simply see them as doing no wrong. You see ZERO good about Androind and have essentially stated as such. You’re as much of a fanboi as can be.

I’m fine living in the PC and Android world - it’s where 90%+ of the world live. Hey guess what - you can design a Mac on Windows; you can’t do it on OSX! Your vaunted Apple gear wouldn’t live without the Windows/PC world.

That’s the fact, jack!


103 posted on 09/07/2016 10:45:37 PM PDT by Shanghai Dan (I ride a GS scooter with my hair cut neat...)
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