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this episode of ask the Buffalo is brought to you by goto meeting with HD faces cuz no one likes sad faces what's up everyone welcome back to another episode of ask the buffalo i'm your host jon rettinger this is the show or you could ask me any question you have from the wide world of technology up this week it's a lot of apple news we're going to talk about iOS 6 the new Retina Display MacBook Pros what my weapon of choice would be in a zombie apocalypse and a few other tech questions in between this is asked to Buffalo it's going to get started user Laurens dbx what do you think about the new macbook pro with retina display would you buy it even with its huge price tag please I really want an answer so first extremely thin and extremely light coming in at just about four and a half pounds if you're coming from an existing laptop if you're coming from a macbook pro this thing is going to feel light svelte and like a supermodel coming from a macbook air it's going to feel heavy big and too clumsy to possibly lug around performance wise though it really does look to be a beast we just got it in the TechnoBuffalo offices yesterday so I have really yet to run it through it stats from comfortable sort of sharing experiences with it but initial performance seems to be very very impressive whether or not it's worth it for the money is going to come down to you it is missing a few things that the older macbook pro design has namely an optical drive so if that's important to you do a lot of physical media you want to be able to import cds or play dvds us is probably not going to be the best choice for you if however you want a little faster performance solid-state drive is going to be something that's important to you hdmi port something that you're looking for and that beautiful Retina Display then it might be worth the money but really like any purchasing decisions getting come down to your particular set of facts so consider those I when deciding whether or not the new 15-inch MacBook Pro serves is a pretty large spot in your bag user sasha endura asks hey John don't you think iOS 6 copied some things from Android for example reply with text message tab syncing was already on Android also Safari coffee crumb with the unified bar so that's not thinking about how answer this question I really get two options the nice polite way or the honest blunt away if you guys have watched my videos for a while you know I generally heir to the honest blunt way so here it is who cares there are really two main competing operating systems in global world there's Android and as iOS and certainly they are going head-to-head competition is good for the consumer I know how many times I got to say that features are going to come and be influenced from each other you can see apples influence on Android androids influence on Apple it doesn't matter the how strongly people feel about mobile operating systems and the vitriol and hate sometimes that they restore for the other is completely unfounded and unjustified that's the honest answer yes Apple absolutely took influence from Android one hundred percent they did but the end result is a better experience the Apple consumer Android absolute akin fluence from Apple and the result is a better end-user experience for the Android user competition is wonderful for the consumer and the notion that companies have to do everything unique and everything has to be innovative it's never going to happen every product in the world have influenced by another product that's just a way the world works unfortunately so yes absolutely Apple take influence from it do I care no not at all i care about us experience when i use a phone whether that's android or iOS i think that you guys should look at it that way to try look at it from a business perspective as well and not look at it so sort of strongly minded when it comes to android or iOS and we see this on the site all the time if we mention iOS if we mention anything after with android commenters immediately sort of come in very strongly with a feeling one way or another which does make for a lively discussion it doesn't always translate to real world business decisions and certainly Google and Apple are real world business companies so if cannibals eating people's faces off the next inevitable step is the zombie apocalypse and Gabriel wants to know John what would your weapon of choice be in the upcoming zombie apocalypse protect your face protect your legs zombies are coming fat chance to interview ideas new media rockstar I had a chance to take a good old-fashioned baseball bat take out my aggression on TV that would my weapon of choice just a baseball bat it's not going to break you have to worry about reloading it classic weapon it's perfect for zombie smashing so what weapon would you pick that was that was more just annoy the zombies I think what weapon would you pick love to hear what you guys have to say and speaking of weapons 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sometime in the October time frame once we can see that that's live and gonna have to devote more resources to sustaining it apps are next on the list so i think we're probably see apps very early next year at something that you guys been asking for something that I really want to give you but I want to put up to son you know half-assed done app I want to be really good and be a great way to get Tecna Buffalo content I just wanted an app that would just show the articles on the site you know that could be easy but there's nothing fun there's nothing ingenious or unique about it I really want to make something that that I'm proud of and I wouldn't be proud of something like that so hopefully that helps answer your question thank you guys for watching ask the Buffalo be sure to stay tuned every week for a new episode or you can ask any question you've got from the wide world of technology be sure to check us out at technobuffalo com for all your tech news i'm jon rettinger see you next 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