It will make a cleaner signal path.
This is related to what I was thinking. At some speed on the external interconnect, things like parasitic capacitance have to become a factor. Some individual parts of the overall capacitance budget are approaching the single pF range; given a pin and socket, it may not be possible to meet that.
Or take ebook readers (certainly personal devices): that book you just downloaded to your Kindle is DRMed and stuck there!
TTBOMK, all of the DRM schemes in common use for e-books have been broken. Of course, you have to get the files onto a normal sort of PC in order to decrypt them.
I work for a semiconductor company and we also stopped doing business with Apple... that they constantly break contracts in order to demand lower prices. We were losing money on every part sold to Apple.
With what results? Have you found other customers who will buy comparable amounts (in aggregate) and pay higher prices? Or did your company's product volume simply decrease?
but the point of most "intro to computers" courses at this point is to prepare people to use basic productivity software to complete the rest of their coursework.
This.
If you have to write, the profs will expect real Word files
(and while things have improved,
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