So it is only a matter of time before we switch to digital distribution. This reality has become more possible with the introduction of the Mac App Store too. It is not uncommon for Apple to be bold and make the first step to ditch legacy peripherals. For example when they introduced the iMac, they also decided to only use USB and stopped supporting older serial and parallel interfaces for printers and mice etc. It took the PC world a few years to follow. Apple were the first to drop the floppy drive and go CD-R only. i think they were the first to provide combo super drives too. They are the first to provide thunderbolt before anyone else and it will be interesting to see where this takes us as the data speeds are lightening fast. Apple were the main adopters of Firewire too, the PC community pretty much ignored this apart from Sony who called it iLink.
The future really is no moving parts and fast transfer feeds between appliances and direct links to the cloud without the need to connect to other devices first. On 17 May 2011, at 16:12, Kimberly thurman wrote: > Our car stereo has a USB port. I transfer music to a thumb drive, plug it > into the stereo, and I have 16 gigs of music blasting away. I'm just waiting > for the 32 gig USB drives to come down in price a little bit more and I'll > have twice the amount of music on a tiny little device I can hold in the palm > of my hand. > > CD's scratch and thumb drives don't. Keep some CD's and DVD's around for > your grandchildren, because they won't be using them, and you can show them a > little piece of forgotten history. > On May 17, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > >> Those are products you currently own, have you seen the amount of stereo >> systems for home audio, home theatre and car that enable you to drop your >> ioS device into them? The likes of Sony and Microsoft are looking at the >> possibilities of ditching there internal drives and provide content down the >> wire in their next consoles, this will hopefully cut down on piracy too. CD >> car multi changers take up too much space in your car, you can get so much >> more on a MP3 player and you can even get MP3/IPOD ready alarm clocks too. >> >> you need to move away from the 1990s and join the 21st century. >> On 17 May 2011, at 14:00, brandt wrote: >> >>> Ok, let's agree to disagree on this point. I won't even bring up the non >>> computer devices sutch as my CD player on my bedside cabinet, the stereo in >>> the lounge, the PS 3 in my little brothers room, the 2 DVD players in the >>> house, the 2 6 disk CD changers in the 2 cars owned by the family, the 7 >>> front loader CD players found in the cars used by the company I work for, >>> and so on and so on. I can keep going for days. >>> >>> Warm regards, >>> >>> Brandt Steenkamp >>> >>> If you like country, oldies and the ocasional modern track, you can tune in >>> to my show, "an Eclectic mess" every Wednesday afternoon at 3 PM UTC by >>> going to www.TheGlobalVoice.info >>> >>> Contact me: >>> >>> Skype: brandt.steenkamp007 >>> MSN: brandt...@live.com >>> Google talk/AIM: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com >>> Twitter @brandtsteenkamp >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Moore" <moor...@blueyonder.co.uk> >>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 2:53 PM >>> Subject: Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air? >>> >>> >>> Savings are also made by no longer having to provide a laptop or desktop >>> with a internal DVD drive, this results in the device being able to be made >>> smaller and lighter, saving on materials and manufacturing. Accept it, the >>> spinning disc is dead. >>> On 17 May 2011, at 13:27, brandt wrote: >>> >>>> Well, you're still thinking small business. Shipping 50000 CDs verses >>>> 200000 USB thumb drives doesn't save on anything. Do the research and find >>>> out what it costs to produce 1000000 thumb drives, pack them in the stupid >>>> packaging usually used for thumb drives and shipping them, verses the same >>>> for disks, and I'm sorry but your argument is week. Try again. >>>> >>>> Warm regards, >>>> >>>> Brandt Steenkamp >>>> >>>> If you like country, oldies and the ocasional modern track, you can tune >>>> in to my show, "an Eclectic mess" every Wednesday afternoon at 3 PM UTC by >>>> going to www.TheGlobalVoice.info >>>> >>>> Contact me: >>>> >>>> Skype: brandt.steenkamp007 >>>> MSN: brandt...@live.com >>>> Google talk/AIM: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com >>>> Twitter @brandtsteenkamp >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Moore" <moor...@blueyonder.co.uk> >>>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 1:54 PM >>>> Subject: Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air? >>>> >>>> >>>> As the thumb drive is much smaller than the retail boxers previously used >>>> for Mac OS X, money will be saved on packaging as the thumb drive is much >>>> smaller, this will also result in more copies being able to be transported >>>> at a time, saving on delivery costs too. So maybe it would be not as >>>> expensive as you think. >>>> >>>> >>>> On 17 May 2011, at 12:48, brandt wrote: >>>> >>>>> True, but look at it from the big corporation's point of view, what's >>>>> cheeper, 1000000 copys of whatever OS on CD, or 1000000 copys of the same >>>>> OS on thumb drives, or SD cards, or what have you. >>>>> >>>>> Warm regards, >>>>> >>>>> Brandt Steenkamp >>>>> >>>>> If you like country, oldies and the ocasional modern track, you can tune >>>>> in to my show, "an Eclectic mess" every Wednesday afternoon at 3 PM UTC >>>>> by going to www.TheGlobalVoice.info >>>>> >>>>> Contact me: >>>>> >>>>> Skype: brandt.steenkamp007 >>>>> MSN: brandt...@live.com >>>>> Google talk/AIM: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com >>>>> Twitter @brandtsteenkamp >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Isaac Obie" <coac...@verizon.net> >>>>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 9:22 AM >>>>> Subject: Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hello Brandt, >>>>>> I have two computers on my desk and one has no floppy drive. there's a n >>>>>> occassional need to transfer a single file between the two units. I use >>>>>> a thumbdrive for this. >>>>>> I use the same thumbdrive to transfer files between my pc and macbook. >>>>>> So I am already using jthis format.. I don't spend a lot of time >>>>>> debating which format to use. I just use what's handy and this is the >>>>>> simplest method at the present. It's certainly cheaper than putting a >>>>>> single file on a cd to transfer it. >>>>>> Isaac >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "brandt" <brandt.steenk...@gmail.com> >>>>>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 1:58 AM >>>>>> Subject: Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> I still don't believe that thumb drives is the solution, not for now, >>>>>>> at least. They are still more expensive than disks. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Warm regards, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Brandt Steenkamp >>>>>>> >>>>>>> If you like country, oldies and the ocasional modern track, you can >>>>>>> tune in to my show, "an Eclectic mess" every Wednesday afternoon at 3 >>>>>>> PM UTC by going to www.TheGlobalVoice.info >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Contact me: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Skype: brandt.steenkamp007 >>>>>>> MSN: brandt...@live.com >>>>>>> Google talk/AIM: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com >>>>>>> Twitter @brandtsteenkamp >>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Howell" <scottn3...@gmail.com> >>>>>>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 12:05 AM >>>>>>> Subject: Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Not at all since you can always use a flash disk or external drive. In >>>>>>> fact the MacBook Air is shipped with a flash disk that contains the OS. >>>>>>> On May 16, 2011, at 12:36 PM, brandt wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> If as you say, optical drives go the way of the Dodo, what will you do >>>>>>>> if whatever opperating system die? If whare as of now, you can install >>>>>>>> off of a DVD, what will you do when you don't have that anymore? If >>>>>>>> your only computer whent crash, you're truely screwed! >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Warm regards, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Brandt Steenkamp >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> If you like country, oldies and the ocasional modern track, you can >>>>>>>> tune in to my show, "an Eclectic mess" every Wednesday afternoon at 3 >>>>>>>> PM UTC by going to www.TheGlobalVoice.info >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Contact me: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Skype: brandt.steenkamp007 >>>>>>>> MSN: brandt...@live.com >>>>>>>> Google talk/AIM: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com >>>>>>>> Twitter @brandtsteenkamp >>>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Howell" >>>>>>>> <scottn3...@gmail.com> >>>>>>>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>>>>>>> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 5:36 PM >>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I have to agree with Ricardo. There are risks no matter what form of >>>>>>>> commerce you engage in, but digital commerce is generally more secure >>>>>>>> and efficient. APple would not have gone in this direction if it was >>>>>>>> not a benefit to them and their customers. >>>>>>>> Sony screwed themselves and in all fairness and as I have always said, >>>>>>>> any computer connected to a network is subject to being hacked. The >>>>>>>> issue is really being on top of your systems and always watching for >>>>>>>> these issues. THis does apply to companies as well as individuals. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On May 16, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> So what? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> For most, the convenience will out weigh the risk. There will always >>>>>>>>> be security risks. This doesn't stop most of us from using credit >>>>>>>>> cards? And digital music downloads has already passed CD sales. So, >>>>>>>>> the writing is already on the wall. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Ricardo Walker >>>>>>>>> rwalker...@gmail.com >>>>>>>>> Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 >>>>>>>>> www.mobileaccess.org >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On May 16, 2011, at 7:04 AM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Hey. Ricardo said he following statement. >>>>>>>>>> Yeah but optical drives are going the way of the dinosaur. We have >>>>>>>>>> iTunes, amazon, netflix, and other sources to obtain media content. >>>>>>>>>> You want an app, just download it from the web or the Mac app store. >>>>>>>>>> Don't be surprised in 2 years, if all macbooks follow the air and >>>>>>>>>> get rid of their optical drives. >>>>>>>>>> I don't think digital distribution will take over CD's or DVD's just >>>>>>>>>> yet. I know most of you don't play video games, but if you heard it >>>>>>>>>> on the radio, you'd know that Sony's Playstation Network has been >>>>>>>>>> down for the past month. As it was down, people were concerned about >>>>>>>>>> identity thef, because the reason why it was down is because someone >>>>>>>>>> hacked into the network. So if you ask me, it'll take more than 2 >>>>>>>>>> years for digital distribution to take effect. 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