WWDC 2005 was a major disappointment!

While I've only been a member for a little over a year, and I've browsed the site for only a little longer than that, I've noticed that every single announcement from Apple has produced a flood of negative criticism, with the possible exception of the recent iMac update (which produced only a small flow of negativity).

Therefore, I'm going out on a limb (not) by predicting that, on the evening of June 6th, there will be a flood of negative threads. In a (likely vain) attempt to focus that flood, perhaps all the outrage could be placed here.

What made you so upset? Post it here. Let me help get you started:

(1) 3.2 GHz PowerMacs were a major disappointment: they weren't dual-core, and they were a year late. The default graphics card sucks.

(2) Quad-2.5 GHz (dual dual-core 2.5GHz) PMs were a disappointment: we were promised 3GHz in 2004, and it's mid-2005 and all we have is something two and a half times as powerful as the original PMG5s. The default graphics card sucks.

(3) The iBook was only bumped to 1.33/1.5GHz w/512MB of RAM. The graphics card still sucks.

(4) The iBook was bumped to 1.33/1.5GHz w/512MB of RAM. Now the PowerBooks are worthless. The graphics card still sucks.

(5) The Mac mini was only bumped to 1.33/1.5GHz w/512MB of RAM. The graphics card still sucks.

(6) The four-button scroll Pro scroll mouse looks great, but we had to wait two freaking decades for it to appear.

(7) The four-button scroll Pro scroll mouse is an abomination to all faithful Mac users; it goes against two freaking decades of good design.

(8) I thought that Asteroid would be a cool new game for my iPod. Instead, it's some dumb GarageBand thingy.

(9) I thought that Asteroid would be a cool new GarageBand thingy. Instead, it's some dumb game for the new all-color iPod lineup. The graphics on the iPods still suck.

(10) They added another user-accessible RAM slot to the 12" PowerBook and dropped the price, but the screen still sucks.

(11) They added a high-res 13" screen to low-end PB, but the graphics card still sucks.

(12) They added a high-res 1920x1080 screen to the 17" PB. Now all the other PBs look like crap by comparison, and the new screen means the graphics card sucks even more.

I don't know what Steve will announce. All I know is that some large fraction of the community will find something wrong with all of it. I suspect that, no matter what (if anything) is announced, the graphics card on it will "suck."

Yes, actually, I was trying for a bit of humor. Perhaps it was too subtle or, in fact, just not funny.

My point was simply that, no matter what is announced, someone's going to trash it for some reason - and, often, for the exact same reasons someone else loves it.

oingoboingo said:

Item 13: The number of people complaining about WWDC suckage will suck.

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(14) Any really good announcement will be followed by a wave of people complaining that they just bought the previous rev or something they wish they'd waited on so they could buy this new thing, so therefore Apple sucks because they didn't tell this person of their upcoming announcement. Even though the graphics card sucks.

(15) It's not going to be in stock. Apple should have stuck with components they could deliver in quantity.

(16) It's in stock. Apple always uses sucky old hardware that's available because no one else wants it.

James Philp said:

What's up Pismo?
That's the second aggressive post I've seen tonight!
The original thread was, in fact, not a complaint about WWDC, but about the inevitable fallout!
You ok Mate?

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New diet, perhaps?

MacsRgr8 said:

(18) Where's my grfx card with hardware H.264 support?

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(19) The PBs now have H.264 support in hardware, but the battery life is only three and a half hours. That sucks! And it'll be even less if I plug in the new 4-button optical mouse.