The point is there are so many other areas where Apple is falling behind for professionals and they release toy crap like this, which is just insulting. I'm not in the market for a Mac Pro but a new iMac or "iMac Pro" would be great, along with SOFTWARE on the iPad Pro that is, you know, actually designed with professionals in mind.
I've been reading your posts for a long time now and I do appreciate your endearing levels of enthusiasm for Apple products, since this place can get too negative at times. But I am starting to wonder if you're Tim Cook.
I can't remember seeing you be critical of an Apple release, ever. 
Not a bad idea for my personal machine as I've been wanting a gaming rig at home anyway. What pisses me off is how integrated Apple has made the Mac into my workflow with my other devices, and now I feel like they're pulling the rug out from under me. If they would at a minimum develop Messages for Windows then it would make my life a lot easier. But then I'd have to find decent replacements for Coda, CodeKit, Sketch, Tweetbot, etc. At least 1Password and Adobe CS have Windows versions. Oh and Xcode is kind of a big one. I don't do most of the dev work but I frequently test and poke around in builds to debug issues from my dev team as I oversee project management and design for our app—which is secondary to my primary job but still important. But I doubt I could convince my boss to buy me two machines for each OS. Apple can't completely abandon professionals as long as Xcode is needed. These people are designing and testing their apps on the Mac. They need professional hardware or they'll just stop—and that's when Apple is in big trouble! I don't think they seem to understand that their iOS industry is built on top of their Mac industry. You can't just take out the foundation and expect the building to stand.
I've been reading your posts for a long time now and I do appreciate your endearing levels of enthusiasm for Apple products, since this place can get too negative at times. But I am starting to wonder if you're Tim Cook.
I can see this being a very useful app for social media. I have no criticism of the app itself and will probably use it for my own amusement. I'm thrilled any time Apple gets down to releasing new software of any kind. Anything is better than news of another new reality show from them.
The problem is that social media grows more clogged and onerous with each update, according to friends who are still using it. I left all of that crap behind several months ago. At some point I'm hoping the powers that be will streamline all of this stuff so it's not so obnoxious.
iMessage has gotten some kitschy add-ons in the past year. I wonder how popular they are. Fortunately iMessage still looks decently streamlined for regular texting and we have choices about how we want our messages to come across.
Does anyone outside of a marketing guy working for Apple actually talk like this? Serious question!
they should better enhance existing apps like Photos and make them better ( or PRO for iPad Pros). So many features missing after nearly 2 years since announcement.
I hope the Mac does get more love from Apple, though. It's an important part of the ecosystem. iOS is great and goodness knows we have a lot of iOS devices in the family. But tying them all together, grounding so much of what we do as a family, is still a Mac desktop. Apple had the best most compelling ecosystem for a huge range of users. I would like to see them go strong on every part of it, since they do have the money to do so.
