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Schiller said the Flash is user replaceable
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That was obviously a slip of the tongue, which the flash could be too, however it would be a much bigger slip then since it's not a mere substitution of FireWire for TB
Ummm....ooookkkk...yeah, but right now, what we have is what we have, bring on the 3rd party blades I guess....
It was on the slide, so it wasn't just a slip of the tongue.
Those slides are pretty well reviewed by Apple PR and engineering.
I'm not sure why so many people are freaking out. You guys totally underestimate the 3rd party vendors. When MBA's first came out, the non-standard SSD was not replaceable. Given some time, the connector was replicated and now it is. I'm sure as SSD storage gets larger, and even the GPU power gets higher, a replaceable part will be made so that we will be able to upgrade most parts out of the nMP.
This is the old thinking, but Apple SSD's are quite competitive now - considering it gives you 2x the speed of regular SSD's without having to create a RAID via a SATA III connection.
In Apple's case, it does make sense if you can see the bigger picture.
In Sony's case, they invest heavily in proprietary media to try to get a lock down on the market. More have failed than succeeded but of the ones that did make it, it's paid off. This is basically their version of Hollywood investing in movies.
IMHO, Apple goes off standard when they're trying to do something better than what the market demands; and when you're creating "products that people don't even know they want," chances are you will need to get creative before the rest of the industry does.
The new iOS devices have reversible connectors; guess what? USB is now talking about making a reversible connector for their next gen design. It wouldn't surprise me if the two looks similar when it's all said and done.
Most of the tweaks have been to improve speed, or make the connections smaller. I for one applaud their efforts to think different because they actually have the power to instigate change while the rest of the industry sits on old standards. If we want the newest, shiniest, computers; this is the train we've been signed up the ride. Yes, I too would love user upgradable parts that I can easily purchase from online vendors. However, I also realize that when I can't, it's cause I'm getting something slightly better in return - performance, aesthetics, or otherwise.
We have many reasons to think that the nMP will only have 1 SSD slot the first year.
1) Only 1 slot is shown in the pictures on the Apple website. There is a space for a second slot on the left video card but that space it missing the port.
2) Specs show "up to 1 TB" and we know Apple has 1 TB single cards in other devices.
3) 2 PCIe SSD cards in the same machine does not have TRIM support yet, in OSX or in Windows. Intel has recently come out with Windows 7 and 8 support for TRIM in RAID0 only, not in other configurations yet.
4) Apple has a history of purposely leaving out things that they could put in so that they can release something better the next year. Examples: 3G missing from the first iPhone after every other SmartPhone was already on 3G, so they could call the next iPhone the 3G a year later to make everyone rebuy it to increase sales and profits.
The first iPad was missing features that had already been in the iPhone for a year (camera) even though it was bigger and had more room, just to make people rebuy it again the next year. It's not Marketing 101, but I did learn to do that in one of my Marketing courses for my MBA, it might have been Marketing 235. You're taught that it's good business to not give the market all that you can so that you can have a multi-year cycle planned out to keep the business running. Intel could have given us the chips out today 2 years ago but didn't need to because AMD hadn't caught up yet. They are now keeping Ivy-Bridge chips for longer and pushing out Broadwell a year because Ivy-Bridge is still selling. Apple is keeping around the iPad2 because "it's still selling" even though they could be offering the iPad 3 in its place. Investors want each quarter to have higher profits than the last, steady increase, metered and without fail. What companies offer is driven by profit first, and (sometimes) by helping humanity second.
1) Only 1 slot is shown in the pictures on the Apple website. There is a space for a second slot on the left video card but that space it missing the port.
2) Specs show "up to 1 TB" and we know Apple has 1 TB single cards in other devices.
3) 2 PCIe SSD cards in the same machine does not have TRIM support yet, in OSX or in Windows. Intel has recently come out with Windows 7 and 8 support for TRIM in RAID0 only, not in other configurations yet.
4) Apple has a history of purposely leaving out things that they could put in so that they can release something better the next year. Examples: 3G missing from the first iPhone after every other SmartPhone was already on 3G, so they could call the next iPhone the 3G a year later to make everyone rebuy it to increase sales and profits.
The first iPad was missing features that had already been in the iPhone for a year (camera) even though it was bigger and had more room, just to make people rebuy it again the next year. It's not Marketing 101, but I did learn to do that in one of my Marketing courses for my MBA, it might have been Marketing 235. You're taught that it's good business to not give the market all that you can so that you can have a multi-year cycle planned out to keep the business running. Intel could have given us the chips out today 2 years ago but didn't need to because AMD hadn't caught up yet. They are now keeping Ivy-Bridge chips for longer and pushing out Broadwell a year because Ivy-Bridge is still selling. Apple is keeping around the iPad2 because "it's still selling" even though they could be offering the iPad 3 in its place. Investors want each quarter to have higher profits than the last, steady increase, metered and without fail. What companies offer is driven by profit first, and (sometimes) by helping humanity second.
Agreed, I doubt we'll see it and I'm fine with that.
Right idea but wrong reasoning. In tech there's always new features that can be added to drive sales, that's not the issue. All they've done is introduce a one time persistent feature gap. The problem is time to market and development costs. Each release costs tens of millions in development, and with the Mythical Man Month effect there's only so many resources you can add. Apple plays it very conservatively opting for a stable platform over featured, and development costs are less of an issue given their margins. Groups that go for feature typically are less stable as it's often difficult to get those new features in reliably. Apple also appears to run their engineering teams lean, unlike Google and Microsoft which throw bodies at the problem. The net effect is that they differentiate on stability rather than capability, so we get hardware that is slightly behind.
I've worked in these environments for 25 years, my belief is that Apple's model is smaller teams, longer development cycles which are done to favor more stable and thought out, though less featured products. They appear to heavily develop against the MVP model (Minimum Viable Product).
