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1. Forest of Enchantment (forestofenchantment@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 18:02:07 JST Forest of Enchantment

   • SPCmovienight
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   @PurpCat @get @SPCmovienight @coolboymew Nah, blame the flood of women infiltrating marketing now. Look at these two opposing ads. Both are intended for a similar target market. Yet they look vastly different? Why, women.
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 18:05:16 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @PurpCat @Forestofenchantment @get @SPCmovienight nothing because ultra small devices are cancer. Small phones are too small to be used properly nowadays. It's fine for an MP3 player or something, but if it has a full screen... It's not
     
     Ultra thin devices are fragile as all shit, but that also generally means you're getting fucked in terms of available ports
     
     Basically, it was always a shit idea. Apple are literally walking back on some of these retarded devices because you end up needing awful dongles for everything and it just becomes pointless. They started putting back HDMI ports on the less thin macbooks and putting back a dedicated charging port too. Now they just need to collapsible Ethernet ports and at least 2 USB A ports and it will be a real laptop again... Minus the toy OS
   • Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 18:05:16 JST Pawlicker

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     @coolboymew @Forestofenchantment @get @SPCmovienight You're laughing but literally every modern business laptop is used with a USB-C dock, and Lenovo has gone all in on USB-C ports. Ditto with Dell. The only ones which have barrel jacks still are the mobile workstations that push hundreds of watts and USFF desktops/minis.
   • Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 18:05:17 JST Pawlicker

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     @Forestofenchantment @SPCmovienight @coolboymew @get The other thing Apple doesn't exactly do anymore, because technology has peaked with this, is the "showoff" ad.
     
     When Apple was still managing to make devices smaller, thinner, etc. back in the 00s/10s, Apple would run assloads of ads showing this off. No fluff, you just saw this and knew, the iPod Nano was even smaller than the Mini, the MacBook Air was the future of ultraportables, etc.
     
     Even the infamous airpod ad was an example of this to symbolize the lack of wires.
     
     What are they doing new anymore? Seriously, what is Apple doing anymore to warrant these effective ads?
   • Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 18:05:18 JST Pawlicker

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     @Forestofenchantment @SPCmovienight @coolboymew @get With Apple I feel the issue is different. While now Mac ads feel like marketing for women, shit like the one you posted is the classic Apple marketing.
     
     It's literally, watch/luxury good marketing as you see on billboards. There's no need to brag about what it can do, just slap the product on the billboard and you know why you're buying the Mac. It's not to do so and so, it's to be Patrick Bateman with his flashy laptop that can fit into an envelope.
     
     Or the infamously flawed "shot on iPhone" campaign that was so influential, some Android phones began to watermark images. Sure, the shots were "under ideal circumstances", having to use fancy jigs to get nice photos that could be done with a fancy camera, but normies forced the iPhone camera memes as a result:
     https://youtu.be/V3dbG9pAi8I
   • Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 18:05:57 JST Pawlicker

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     @coolboymew @Forestofenchantment @SPCmovienight @get Even laptops that still have the barrel jacks have USB-C for the reason of docks/charging via the dock. They'll support charging the laptop via a USB-C port, with no stupid errors like Dell's infamous "charger not identified" error.