Though Apple had been producing external floppy disk drives prior to 1984, they were exclusively developed for the Apple II, III and Lisa computers using the industry standard 51⁄4-inch flexible disk format….Macintosh External Disk Drive.

A floppy disk or floppy diskette (sometimes casually referred to as a floppy or diskette) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk.

Fully 12 years after the original G3 iMac dropped support for the 3.5-inch floppy disk, Sony has finally decided to stop making them. The reason is a lack of demand. The surprise is that it took so long.

They’re in dire need of the disks, which most manufacturers have stopped producing. The floppy disk might seem like something better left in the 1990s. Instead it’s a product that’s alive and well in the 21st century.

Goodbye, headphone jack (hello, AirPods) The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, released in 2016, got rid of the headphone jack, instead featuring just one USB-C port that could be used for headphones and charging (and requiring customers to buy new headphones or an adapter in order to use them with the new phone).

The iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro were pushed back to October in 2020, and the other two devices – the iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max – were released in November of that year….iPhone 13 release date.

According to the report, Apple is ditching the button to make room for a larger screen in one version of the next iPhone. The home button has been a staple in iPhone design since the beginning. It’s used to wake a device, return to the app grid, and, more recently, for Touch ID fingerprint recognition.

The home button on both iPhones 7 no longer physically clicks. Instead, it’s a force touch sensor, and it uses the improved Taptic Engine to provide simulated click feedback.

Without a Home button, Apple had to figure out an easier way for users to turn the screen on — something easier than pressing the Side button, at a minimum. They hit a home run here with a new Raise to Wake feature. Now, all you have to do when you want to check the time or read new notifications is pick up the phone.

According to Reddit user cranbourne, Microsoft decided to forgo Windows 9 on account of legacy code from third-party apps running checks for Windows 9x. and that this was the pragmatic solution to avoid that. It’s almost like Microsoft’s version of Y2K.

In Chinese culture, the number nine is a good number because it sounds the same as the word ‘long-lasting’. It’s often associated with dragons, a symbol of magic and power. In Japan, the number nine may be considered unlucky because their word for nine sounds like the Japanese word for ‘agony’ or ‘torture’.

But often it’s for the same reason that Apple skipped 9 – because the company wants to signify a new beginning for a product, just as Microsoft did when it skipped Windows 9 and went straight to Windows 10 from Windows 8 (OK, from Windows 8.1 for the pedants out there).