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0 pointslghh4y ago0 comments

Funny that they used a very clunky looking Windows laptop and a pretty dated looking Android phone to show off Facetime.

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comeonseriously4y ago· 5 in thread

I get that you want to show your own products in their best light, but this is just petty and beneath them.

mikestew4y ago

This 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?

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akmarinov4y ago

This comes from the company that still shows non-Mac PCs in the network as CRT monitors, showing a blue screen of death.

hugi4y ago

Only 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.

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temac4y ago

About 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.

disposedtrolley4y ago

The 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.

smoldesu4y ago· 3 in thread

If 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.

lghhOP4y ago

But then they'd have to show the corresponding person in the video call as being nothing but a floating nose.

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threeseed4y ago

Dell uses a low quality 720p camera on their XPS line.

And the notch gives them room for a future FaceID sensor stack.

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elzbardico4y ago

Man. The screen was not cut by a notch, rather it grow to envelope the camera.

Compare the top bezel in a pre-notch mac book and you will see that the camera is basically on the same place as before, but the bezel is now smaller.

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threeseed4y ago· 1 in thread

Many 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.

FireBeyond4y ago

And 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-...

is just expressing their preferences. And I say that as someone who is waiting on delivery of the 14" MBP.

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kube-system4y ago· 1 in thread

Looks 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.

temac4y ago

So 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/portabl... , which is not too far.

So I'm not really convinced that attempt of an excuse makes any sense...

vadfa4y ago

What do you think the average Windows laptop and Android phone look like?

tommywg74y ago

Finally, you can FaceTime with poor people!

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16 comments · 6 top-level

comeonseriously4y ago· 5 in thread

I get that you want to show your own products in their best light, but this is just petty and beneath them.

mikestew4y ago

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akmarinov4y ago

This comes from the company that still shows non-Mac PCs in the network as CRT monitors, showing a blue screen of death.

hugi4y ago

Only 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.

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temac4y ago

About 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.

disposedtrolley4y ago

The 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.

smoldesu4y ago· 3 in thread

If 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.

lghhOP4y ago

But then they'd have to show the corresponding person in the video call as being nothing but a floating nose.

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threeseed4y ago

Dell uses a low quality 720p camera on their XPS line.

And the notch gives them room for a future FaceID sensor stack.

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elzbardico4y ago

Man. The screen was not cut by a notch, rather it grow to envelope the camera.

Compare the top bezel in a pre-notch mac book and you will see that the camera is basically on the same place as before, but the bezel is now smaller.

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threeseed4y ago· 1 in thread

Many 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.

FireBeyond4y ago

And 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-...

is just expressing their preferences. And I say that as someone who is waiting on delivery of the 14" MBP.

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kube-system4y ago· 1 in thread

temac4y ago

Ironically, during my research I also found this marvelous few years old MacBook Air 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...

vadfa4y ago

What do you think the average Windows laptop and Android phone look like?

tommywg74y ago

Finally, you can FaceTime with poor people!

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