They are starting to feel guilty. The best thing they could do is admit they estimated the new laptop prices poorly and reduce their prices by $500+.
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Apple Drops Prices on USB-C Adapters
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It probably is selling well but at the same time has generated some negative publicity, so this helps.
Wow… the Cubs win the World Series, and then Apple issues a mea culpa and admits they made a mistake?
We truly are at the end of days…
We truly are at the end of days…
Looks like this is an implicit admission by Tim Cook & Co. that they messed up. But if you notice, they said they'll lower prices until the end of the year i.e. end of December 2016. So it's not permanent. What they're trying to basically do is minimize bad press, and then hope that in a few months you all forget. They know they botched things up big time with all the bad press (which is unprecedented than ever before), and are showing quite clearly how out of touch Tim Cook, and fellow execs are out of touch. They are not interested in innovation, or about the customer's needs any longer, they're only interested in maximizing profits just like how Jobs predicted. Jobs probably anticipated this happening so he probably reasoned might as well get Tim Cook to eke out enough profit until the next revolution happens in another decade.
Regardless, I'm not buying this new laptop. The keyboard is too shallow, the price too high, and the specs not good enough. I'm just going to use a Hackintosh, and use ElementaryOS (Mac Clone for Linux) on a nice Chromebook that will cost me $200. Have had every Apple iBook, or Macbook since 2005, and this is the first one I will not be getting.
Regardless, I'm not buying this new laptop. The keyboard is too shallow, the price too high, and the specs not good enough. I'm just going to use a Hackintosh, and use ElementaryOS (Mac Clone for Linux) on a nice Chromebook that will cost me $200. Have had every Apple iBook, or Macbook since 2005, and this is the first one I will not be getting.
The price cut is precisely because of forums like this.
This forum is far more reflective of the wet fart this launch has been that the cult leaders at 9to5. The opinions here are pretty much mainstream opinions.
The fact is, you still have to buy a bunch of dongles to achieve the same level of functionality as last years machine.
I think it is more a move to counter some of the negative publicity. Most people don't need more than 1 or 2 of these adapters and it isn't as if $10 or $20 off is going to make a big difference overall. At the same time, it makes it easier to sell add-ons during the holiday season.
They dropped the price of dongles $10. Get real!!!!
See this is why we can't have anything nice.
All the initial reviews with plenty of negatives about price, performance, and need for adapters and dongles probably gave them a hard dose of reality.
The Reality Distortion Field around Apple is probably Steve's most enduring legacy. Five years on, and Apple still has its collective head up its ass.
The Reality Distortion Field around Apple is probably Steve's most enduring legacy. Five years on, and Apple still has its collective head up its ass.
Sorry, but if your not using wireless by now, i have no sympathy for you. DO you also wash your dishes by hand instead of using a device called a dishwasher?? LOL
You need ethernet for intranet. Maybe you don't work for a company that cares about its intellectual property.
Dishwasher's capability is very limited and uses a lot of energy, that's why under a lot of circumstances people still wash their stuff (not just dishes) by hands.
I have never seem so many negative oponions about a Macbook before. I am massively upset myself. Not that I need to upgrade, I have the mid 2015 15" rMBP maxed out, so I am cool....but I cannot believe the direction.
My MBP is really cool. I can just plonk it in front of the TV and connect the legacy HDMI cable and it just works.
Or I can plug in the displayport monitor at work and it just works.
And I can connect the USB lightning cable that came with my legacy iPhone 7 and it just works.
This also works for a whole bunch of cheap accesories I use weekly, like USB sticks and printers.
And I often use the SD card slot too, it's super handy (ugly as it may be).
Thing is, I have a laptop - it gets around. I need to be able to connect to things.
It's admirable that they are trying to push technology into the future, I get that.
But dropping every port I need and adding ports I don't yet have any use for makes no sense to me. I'm sure plenty of people will buy this stupid crap but a lot of people are just scratching their heads wondering what on earth they are smoking.
They keep doing this with their software as well. Apple used to champion some really great professional creative software. Now they stiffing the professional community to sell out to consumers. Doing a pretty half a**ed job in the meantime.
Thunderbolt may be great but stupidly expensive. I've a TB2 dock at home at my workstation and it's nice to limit the cable clutter but it's too expensive and it's not particularly good. The sound is awful and the thing is a bit temperamental. I don't want to have to have a docking station everywhere I may have the need to use a USB stick. I don't want dongles, not even cheap ones. I just want enough ports. I think the last gen MBP struck a very good balance.
I hope the next generation of pro machines will be built by Toys-r-us just to stop the teasing.
Or I can plug in the displayport monitor at work and it just works.
And I can connect the USB lightning cable that came with my legacy iPhone 7 and it just works.
This also works for a whole bunch of cheap accesories I use weekly, like USB sticks and printers.
And I often use the SD card slot too, it's super handy (ugly as it may be).
Thing is, I have a laptop - it gets around. I need to be able to connect to things.
It's admirable that they are trying to push technology into the future, I get that.
But dropping every port I need and adding ports I don't yet have any use for makes no sense to me. I'm sure plenty of people will buy this stupid crap but a lot of people are just scratching their heads wondering what on earth they are smoking.
They keep doing this with their software as well. Apple used to champion some really great professional creative software. Now they stiffing the professional community to sell out to consumers. Doing a pretty half a**ed job in the meantime.
Thunderbolt may be great but stupidly expensive. I've a TB2 dock at home at my workstation and it's nice to limit the cable clutter but it's too expensive and it's not particularly good. The sound is awful and the thing is a bit temperamental. I don't want to have to have a docking station everywhere I may have the need to use a USB stick. I don't want dongles, not even cheap ones. I just want enough ports. I think the last gen MBP struck a very good balance.
I hope the next generation of pro machines will be built by Toys-r-us just to stop the teasing.
The courage joke is really played out. I appreciate what you are trying to express, but the delivery is starting to sound like an Andrew Dice Clay show.
Called up chat and was refunded the difference. I bought 2 cables last week while I'm waiting for the Pro. Hey, every little bit counts. $20 is half a tank of gas
This makes me happy. I will probably pick up a couple of these adapters when I get my new MacBook Pro.
Throw in these two:
and I'll think about getting on that bandwagon!
Oh and the 3.5mm headphone pushed all the way to the back to get more tangled in those adapters. YAY!
and I'll think about getting on that bandwagon!
Oh and the 3.5mm headphone pushed all the way to the back to get more tangled in those adapters. YAY!