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Funny that they used a very clunky looking Windows laptop and a pretty dated looking Android phone to show off Facetime.
by lghh 5y ago
Funny that they used a very clunky looking Windows laptop and a pretty dated looking Android phone to show off Facetime.
- comeonseriously 5y agoI get that you want to show your own products in their best light, but this is just petty and beneath them.
- hugi 5y agoOnly if you have no sense of humor :). Reminds me of how hugely offended some people were that the icon for a Windows PC in Mac OS X’s network browser was a blue screened monitor.
- lghh 5y agoIt's just annoying when they don't have a sense of humor about their products but have a negative sense of humor about other's.
- comeonseriously 5y agoI can be not offended and still feel it to be petty.
- hugi 5y agoI found it absolutely hilarious when it was done about 15 years ago. That was when we Apple users were pretty much the underdogs and expected the platform to die any day. But now that Windows users feel threatened by Apple and are sensitive about this, it should probably be changed. Although it's a fun relic of the olden times.
- akmarinov 5y agoThis comes from the company that still shows non-Mac PCs in the network as CRT monitors, showing a blue screen of death.
- disposedtrolley 5y agoThe macOS Finder still displays Windows machines on the network as CRT monitors showing the BSOD I believe. I’m not in front of my Mac now so can’t check.
- mikestew 5y agoThis is the same company that displays Windows machines it finds on the network with a Blue Screen of Death. You have to really zoom in on that icon to see it, but it's there. As a Certified Apple Fanboi(tm), such pettiness bothers me. I'd go as far as to call it unprofessional. But macOS rules and Windoze droolz, amirite?
- temac 5y agoAbout showing their products in the best light, it seems they also chose to limit the view of the notch of their brand new MBP to one (kind of small) picture... among pictures of 30 devices.
- smoldesu 5y agoIf they used an XPS people might accidentally realize that you don't need a notch to put a camera at the top of your screen.
- lghh 5y agoBut then they'd have to show the corresponding person in the video call as being nothing but a floating nose.
- JohnTHaller 5y agoThe XPS line fixed that last year. It's at the top of the screen in a super thing bezel.
- kfprt 5y agoThe new XPS has windows hello AND a super thin bezel. Imagine that.
- threeseed 5y agoDell uses a low quality 720p camera on their XPS line. And the notch gives them room for a future FaceID sensor stack.
- saghm 5y ago> And the notch gives them room for a future FaceID sensor stack If that's really the reason, why not just delay putting the notch on until they're actually doing that?
- FireBeyond 5y agoAnd Apple only just with the new MBPs upgraded to 1080p. And Dell supports Windows Hello 3D face recognition without a notch. It's not quite as unbalanced as you imply.
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- threeseed 5y agoMany popular Windows laptops e.g. Thinkpad look like that. And since they are targeting younger people for Facetime maybe not surprising they didn't choose the most expensive, flagship phone.
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- FireBeyond 5y agoAnd yet iPhones are flagship phones... Taste is subjective. Anyone arguing that the MBP is objectively better than, say, https://icdn.digitaltrends.com/image/digitaltrends/dell-xps-15-oled-2021-laptop-625x417-c.jpg https://icdn.digitaltrends.com/image/digitaltrends/dell-xps-... is just expressing their preferences. And I say that as someone who is waiting on delivery of the 14" MBP.
- threeseed 5y agoM1 Pro/Max destroys the competition by every definition. https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performance-review/7 https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc... So taste maybe subjective. But there is simply no argument that if you care about performance or battery life then the MacBook Pro is objectively better.
- smoldesu 5y agoHow does it fare in price/performance? I'd wager that's what will matter more than performance/watt to 90% of customers.
- lotsofpulp 5y ago90% of customers only need MacBook airs, which have been at the top of price/performance for a decade.
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- vadfa 5y agoWhat do you think the average Windows laptop and Android phone look like?
- kube-system 5y agoLooks about like the hardware you'd get for a N2040 laptop or a prepaid unlocked phone. Half of the stuff on the shelf at Walmart looks like this today. Just because Apple doesn't make entry-level hardware doesn't mean they're under any obligation to pretend that other companies don't. I think the image illustrates quite well what this update means -- FaceTime isn't just a rich-kid platform anymore.
- temac 5y agoSo I just took a few minutes to lookup for the picture of an "N2040" (or various random low cost laptops, N4020 seems more likely if it's about a Celeron CPU, but I actually found one laptop model named "N2040") and they have bezels clearly thinner than what Apple shows for the laptop PC picture. Ironically, during my research I also found this marvelous few years old MacBook Air https://fr.shopping.rakuten.com/offer/buy/2076960204/portable-macbook-air-13-i5-1-8ghz-128g.html?xtatc=15000&rtg=a08fe715e3dd71bafc48780640590b9e https://fr.shopping.rakuten.com/offer/buy/2076960204/portabl... , which is not too far. So I'm not really convinced that attempt of an excuse makes any sense...
- tommywg7 5y agoFinally, you can FaceTime with poor people!