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I still have my Mac g4 with Apple Cinema Display and PowerBook ti in storage. Not to mention countless PowerBooks, iBooks, MacBooks, MacBook pros. MacBook airs, iMacs and Mac mini’s I have used over the years. G4s,g5s,intel Mac’s, and even arm Soc.

I’m retired so iPhone and iPad pros are what i use these days. Don’t really need my MacBook Pro anymore.

As I mentioned earrlier I really want an Apple Vision Pro as soon as it’s available in Switzerland.
About the only change I foresee for myself as I age is scaling back displays to 2 or 3 and using a smaller sized Mac (not an iMac though, not my thing). My phone will still be a phone and my iPad still an iPad.

I had occasion to use my iPad with keyboard and mouse a couple weeks ago. While it filled in for my Mac (it was down at the time), it is no substitute in my eyes. I was grateful to have it, but I got the Mac back up as quickly as I could.
 
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the snail paced incremental updates, the AI fiasco, intentionally grotesque design, recent price gouging (of apple products in general) - anyone else have general iPhone & Apple fatigue and just losing all interest?
so true!!! the updates rarely feel exciting anymore, Apple Intelligence has been a pretty underwhelming rollout, and some of the recent design choices just seem... off. On top of that, the constant price increases make it harder to justify upgrading when the improvements are so incremental.
 
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About the only change I foresee for myself as I age is scaling back displays to 2 or 3 and using a smaller sized Mac (not an iMac though, not my thing). My phone will still be a phone and my iPad still an iPad.

I had occasion to use my iPad with keyboard and mouse a couple weeks ago. While it filled in for my Mac (it was down at the time), it is no substitute in my eyes. I was grateful to have it, but I got the Mac back up as quickly as I could.

I’m not what one would call a spring chicken either. 😂. We all have different use cases nothings wrong with that. Use what you want when you want.

Life is way to short to have anyone impose their use case on others.

For me iPad Pro 13 inch without a keyboard and an iPhone are all I need. But as I mentioned earlier I really want to get a Vision Pro.☺️

Might also pick up another MacBook Pro with the next redesign, no rush.
 
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Whatchu talking about Willis?!

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The youngest device I have is from 2021. And that's the device taking this picture, iPhone 11 Pro Max.

My devices are tools. I don't usually get bored with tools.
No matter how often I see your desk, the self made wallpaper with those mostly made up woman who I suppose inspire you weird me out all the time.
No offense, but the style choice definitely is a choice.
 
No matter how often I see your desk, the self made wallpaper with those mostly made up woman who I suppose inspire you weird me out all the time.
No offense, but the style choice definitely is a choice.
It's a 2/3rds ratio of real to art. But they aren't random choices. Each one was chosen because of the strength of their character (no pun intended) and/or for what they represent. Positioning also means something. Some of them are dual in that both the art and the voice actress appear. The backgrounds and other pieces of art also mean something.

It's nothing salacious. They represent various strong women who for various reasons inspire me when I'm writing. My wife has no issue with it and she's the strongest woman I know personally.

It's not really meant to make a whole lot of sense to anyone other than myself. But if you're interested in some of the things I am, some of these women are recognizable. 😉
 
SE1 then iPhone 7 and now Samsung A17. But my phone is very much a secondary device as I prefer laptops. Smartphones and tablets are like Muppet Babies of the computer world.

My god man, no wonder you feel that way. 😂

Try a flagship at least once, you will see what you are missing out on.
 
Personally, it’s not really iPhone fatigue per se, but rather smartphone fatigue in general. Even with 7-inch screens, I find them too small for anything other than reading or writing messages, making calls, or doing the things a phone is actually designed for. Browsing the web for more than five minutes on my phone is just a hassle for me now. Don't get me wrong, I still like my iPhone; it’s just that the "wow factor" from the early days is gone, and I use it as a tool now rather than the gadget that used to amaze me when it first came out.

Also, as others have mentioned, the market has matured, and updates have become so minor that I’m no longer really interested in following them or eager to install them. As for the design, the new iPhones ever since the 17 Pro, look so bad that I have even less desire to upgrade my current phone. I have an iPhone 16 Pro Max that I plan to keep for as long as possible.
 
That pocket watch really stands out, on its own shelf.
I am told that it was purchased by my father's great uncle sometime in the 1870s for use in his job as a railroad conductor. My research says that while it can be circa 1870s, this particular model has some non-standard qualities and was therefore not certified for railroad use. So, I have to assume that while he was a conductor, the watch was probably for personal use. Like a lot of stories and young kids half-paying attention, this probably got conflated and my dad believed it.

In any case, it's close to 150 years old by this point and it still works. My forbear's name, with the original spelling of our surname (our family came over from Sweden in that time period), is engraved. One of these days I'm going to get the other owner's names engraved as well.

I was told it didn't work all my life. Apparently no one thought to wind it, so it went decades without being wound. 🙄

The stand, although cool, has zero history, LOL. An Amazon purchase. It holds phones too. 😀
 
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the snail paced incremental updates, the AI fiasco, intentionally grotesque design, recent price gouging (of apple products in general) - anyone else have general iPhone & Apple fatigue and just losing all interest?
The industry, not just Apple, reached peak phone quite a few years ago. There will only ever be incremental updates at this point unless and until there's a major technological paradigm shift in the world. As phones have gotten closer and closer to that ultimate form of essentially just a slab of glass with no cruft in the way between and your digital stuff, there is less and less room to introduce 'big changes'.

  • Yeah, Apple could've handled their entrance into AI better.
  • No, the design is not 'intentionally grotesque'. You may not like it, but many do (including myself) and Apple obviously didn't go out of their way to create something grotesque.
  • There hasn't been any price gouging.

But, if you're losing interest, there are certainly competing products and services out there you can try. 👍
 
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the snail paced incremental updates, the AI fiasco, intentionally grotesque design, recent price gouging (of apple products in general) - anyone else have general iPhone & Apple fatigue and just losing all interest?

Snail paced incremental updates - happy with updates
AI fiasco - don’t really care
Inentionally grotesque design - lol
 
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I really want to buy an Apple Vision Pro, just waiting for Apple to release it officially in Switzerland. Don’t know what’s the hold up.

The hold up is that it may be a dead product line right now.
The future there is quite unclear.

Since you're a rich Swiss baller, you might consider buying one by popping over to a region where it's sold on a quick day trip in the Gulfstream?
 
The hold up is that it may be a dead product line right now.
The future there is quite unclear.

Since you're a rich Swiss baller, you might consider buying one by popping over to a region where it's sold on a quick day trip in the Gulfstream?

Don’t need a Gulf Stream to do that. Haters gonna hate. 😂

They just updated it to an m5 so it’s not a dead product, that makes it the opposite of a dead product, and the software update coming September.

Could pick one up from France, Germany, London, or Dubai. But I would still prefer to get it in Switzerland.
 
What on earth does this have to do with iOS and iPadOS having different marketing names?

The analogy is it's simpler. How is it helpful to someone who struggles to operate a phone, or just wants an iPhone and iPad as a means to an end; to foist extra terminology like "iPadOS" and "iOS" on them? Every additional confusing bit of terminology, however small, is a cognitive barrier that should be deleted.

The fact is they're not even good marketing names. "iPadOS" makes no sense now, and will make even less sense when the fold is released.
 
the snail paced incremental updates, the AI fiasco, intentionally grotesque design, recent price gouging (of apple products in general) - anyone else have general iPhone & Apple fatigue and just losing all interest?
I'm productive and having fun, using Macs, iPhones and some other smaller Apple gear both in my professional and personal life. Why would I lose interest?
I did not install macOS 26, but have the beta of macOS 27 ready to be installed on another disk partition. I'm still on iOS 18, but will try the beta of iOS 27. I'm not getting a new iPhone, because I paid for a new battery (from Apple) in my old one (Apple threw in a new display without asking at no cost). It just works, and better than before (2nd hand originally).
I'm very much interested using what I've got. I'm interested in a new iPhone, a better camera especially, but I don't have to get one for any other reason.
 
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The analogy is it's simpler. How is it helpful to someone who struggles to operate a phone, or just wants an iPhone and iPad as a means to an end; to foist extra terminology like "iPadOS" and "iOS" on them? Every additional confusing bit of terminology, however small, is a cognitive barrier that should be deleted.

The fact is they're not even good marketing names. "iPadOS" makes no sense now, and will make even less sense when the fold is released.
I have no idea what you are even talking about, how on earth is iPadOS not simple? It’s literally the product name, followed by OS meaning operating system. It cannot get any simpler than that.
You have an iPad? Oh yeah, it runs iPadOS. Because it’s an iPad. The operating system that runs on the iPad, is called iPad operating system.
 
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iPhone hardware plateaued years ago, the only direction to go is software and even that has leveled out. Apple Intelligence is being pushed so hard partially because it's the only new thing Apple can add to their OS's. I'm not fatigued by the iPhone, but I do feel fatigue with the current direction of tech. It used to feel freeing but monopolization and rent-seeking has made browsing the web, watching movies and shows, and just using the hardware I already own more frustrating.
 
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