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It used to be I bought Apple products at a premium price to be ahead of the curve in technology. For instance, Retina Screens on Phones, Thunderbolt ports, ligh
by mkhalil 13y ago
It used to be I bought Apple products at a premium price to be ahead of the curve in technology. For instance, Retina Screens on Phones, Thunderbolt ports, lightweight quad core notebooks. Now I find myself waiting for Apple to play catch up and release NFC on an iPhone, or HASWELL MACBOOK PROS/Retina (that I can't believe we don't have yet). The Macbook Pros used to be the first of popular laptops to use the latest processors. Now what am I paying the premium price for again?
- mkhalil 13y agoSadly the answer to this question is iOS development for many people.
- derefr 13y agoIf Apple haven't released NFC by now, they're not gonna. They might throw up a slide at some point in a year or two pointing out how little Android users actually use NFC, right before announcing that they've managed to get extremely-low-power Bluetooth autonegotiation with auth-token-push on thumbprint-confirmation working, or something.
- mason240 13y ago>Retina Screens on Phones There was actually several android phones a better screen resolution than a Retina display when it came out, they just didn't have a marketing term attached to them.
- Cthulhu_ 13y ago> Now what am I paying the premium price for again? The current-generation Macbooks? * High performance * Retina display * Tiny package * OSX * Status I'm not a fanboy, but I'm looking forward to being allowed to pick out a new macbook late this year or early next. Will probably wait for the new batch, this 2011 model I work with atm is still awesome. My previous dev machine (at an assignment) was a Core I7, 32 GB monster... but it ran on Ubuntu and didn't feel as nippy or awesome as this macbook. The OS does make an important difference. But I digress / ramble.