Michael Tsai
I added more links to the post about iPhone 7 initial reactions: http://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/09/07/iphone-7/ … #mjtsaiblog
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@mjtsai I think people have forgotten how inconvenient it was to not have a floppy drive in be original iMac.
rgigger
@rgigger I don’t remember that being big deal, personally. More of an issue that serial/ADB/SCSI peripherals didn’t work.
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@mjtsai for personal use it wasn’t a problem. But I had an early iMac in college when floppies was *the* way people swapped files. - View other replies
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@mjtsai I’m sure YMMV but IIRC the public lamenting about it was very similar to the complaining about removal of headphone jack. -
@mjtsai perception was not “good riddens we’ve got better tech” it was “this is insane and inexplicable. Why would you do that” - View other replies
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@rgigger Floppies were really bad, but OTOH they had more interoperability benefits than the headphone jack. -
@mjtsai yes exactly. It created a lot of social awkwardness as you tried to engineer around it to share files. -
@rgigger Sympathies. At that time, I was in college, no one else had a Mac, and we just put everything in shared NFS folders.
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