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Re:iPhone 7 by panglott on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @04:25PM (#12447246)
Floppy drives were still going strong when Apple killed them, as were CDs. Apple briefly made a candy iMac that had neither a floppy drive nor a CD drive nor any other kind of removable drive...I always wondered what you were supposed to do if you had hard drive problems...Target Disk Mode, I guess, if you had another Mac.

Apple wants to make a thinner phone and eliminate wires. If you want to use different headphones than the ones that come with...well, do so. Are AirPods the most advanced headphones ever to come with a music device? They're usually pretty bad.

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Re:iPhone 7 by robotresearcher on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:08PM (#12447709)
That iMac supported USB thumbdrives or any other USB drive. Like a MacBook Air or other ultrabook format machine today.

> Are AirPods the most advanced headphones ever to come with a music device?

They don't come with it. They are optional accessories. The new phone comes with Thunderbolt wired headphones.

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Re:iPhone 7 by kalleboo on Thursday September 08, 2016 @01:26AM (#12450490)
> Apple briefly made a candy iMac that had neither a floppy drive nor a CD drive nor any other kind of removable drive

They never made a candy iMac without a CD or DVD drive. They didn't drop optical until the current design of aluminum iMacs in 2012.

> I always wondered what you were supposed to do if you had hard drive problems

When they dropped the optical drive with the first MacBook Air, they shipped it with the OS on a USB drive http://www.iclarified.com/images/news/16130/55529/55529-500....

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