Re:Why doesn’t Apple make its devices as carefully as it’s m...
by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @12:58AM
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Those are “tried” but they don’t qualify as “tried and true.” Something remains cutting edge until it ultimately fails and disappears or is a success and becomes mainstream.
Re:Why doesn’t Apple make its devices as carefully as it’s m...
by abalone on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @02:42AM
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Your statement is trivially false. “Ideas poorly executed by other companies” are not “tried and true” ideas, by definition.
Re:Why doesn’t Apple make its devices as carefully as it’s m...
by whyenot on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @01:49AM
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> This is categorically false.
some counterexamples: iMacs without floppy disks and with USB, MacBooks with only USB3 ports, the original iPhone, the touch bar (like it or not, it's pretty cutting edge), ...
Re:Why doesn’t Apple make its devices as carefully as it’s m...
by dingaling on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @05:29AM
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> like it or not, it's pretty cutting edge
As with your other examples it has antecedents, just poorly executed. Acer, Microsoft ( Windows Sideshow, 2008) and Razer had all experimented with an adaptive secondary LCD.
This is categorically false. Apple has always taken ideas poorly executed by other companies, learned from their mistakes, and shipped a vastly improved product built on technologies that others failed with. Their new building is practically the only exception. Even things like depth sensors on phones have been attempted by Google (project Tango) with little commercial success.