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Apple’s Radical MacBook Pro Will Supercharge Windows 10 – Forbes
Apple removed the floppy disk drive,Apple removed the number pad from the phone, Apple removed the headphone jack, and now Apple is moving its computer to ARM. Windows 10 computers have little choice but to follow.
July 7 update below, post originally published July 4.
Every press launch has an element of hyperbole, and you can generally playbuzzword bingo at most of the major events. Sometimes though a turn of phrase sounds a little bit out of place; the recent classic being Apples Phil Schiller portrayal of removing the 3.5mm headphone jack from the iPhone as something that required “courage.
The full quote is actually The reason to move on: courage. The courage to move on and do something new that betters all of us, with Schiller looking to frame Apples decision as something that changes the world.
Apple removed the floppy disk drive, and the rest of the industry followed. Apple removed the number pad from the phone, and the rest of the industry followed. And yes, Apple removed the headphone jack, and everyone followed. Is Apple going to follow the formula again and compel the desktop and laptop computing industry to break with Intel and move towards ARM architecture?
Philip “Phil” Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple Inc., speaks …
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