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Infinite Loop: Analyzing Apple from the Outside liveblog
For a company that's being so relentlessly scrutinized, it's almost baffling that Apple can still wheel out the odd surprise every now and again. We've assembled a gaggle of professional Cupertino-watchers to join our Tim on stage to hash out where Apple's been, where it's going and if Sir Jonathan and Mr. Cook's next big idea is going to center around your wrist or your TV corner. Taking the stage will be Victor Agreda Jr. from The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Analyst Gene Munster and Crunch Fund's MG Siegler. Join us after the break for the blow-by-blow commentary, lovingly dictated into easy-to-read words. March 17, 2013 7:15 PM EDT Follow all of Engadget's Expand coverage live from San Francisco right here!
Disrupt panel discusses iPhone 5 launch
The best of the best in the Apple world took to the stage last week during TechCrunch Disrupt to talk about the iPhone 5. Hosted by TechCrunch's Darrell Etherington, the round table of Apple experts include Jim Dalrymple of The Loop, John Gruber of Daring Fireball, Tim Stevens of Engadget, Jason Snell of Macworld and TechCrunch columnist MG Siegler. If you haven't already, you should definitely take the time to listen to their conversation, which is available on TechCrunch's website. It's filled with insight about the iPhone 5 and Apple's position in the smartphone marketplace.
In defence of the SuperDrive
Echoing our own Michael Grothaus last year, MG Siegler hopes Apple drops the DVD drive from future Macs: "Just like the floppy disk before it, the optical disc will fade into irrelevance. And now you see why Apple has never included a Blu-ray drive in any of their machines." Erica Sadun wrote a post last week asking if you agree that the disc is dead, and over 65 percent of respondents said they did. I agree the days of the optical drive are numbered, but I also think there's more life left in it than Siegler does. I only own a single Mac -- a mid-2009 15" MacBook Pro. It doesn't have an optical drive because I replaced it with an MCE Optibay housing an SSD, whilst keeping a 500 GB HDD in the normal hard drive bay. This means that whenever I want to use the optical drive, I have to get it out of my desk drawer and plug two USB cables in, so I know I've used it several times in recent weeks. Notably, I still rely on that optical drive for quite a few things.
