Phil Schiller: Optical drives are ‘anchors on where we want to go’
Apple executive Phil Schiller showing off the iPad Mini.
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Fresh off the introduction of its latest products, Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller explained his company’s abandonment of built-in optical drives in its new Macbooks and iMacs.
“These old technologies are holding us back,” he told Time. “They’re anchors on where we want to go. We find the things that have outlived their useful purpose. Our competitors are afraid to remove them. We try to find better solutions — our customers have given us a lot of trust.”
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