I’ve been using Macs daily since the SE. I know when I am having problems and when I am not. There are bugs in the networking, general UI problems, and some other things I can’t remember off the top of my head. The “it just works” slogan has gone out the window. I use both Macs and Windows 10 throughout the day…..there is no difference in reliability at this point. MacOS has been slowly going down hill since 10.7.
No they are not.
Internal upgrades have always been expensive. I know because I've been buying Macs since the late 90s. Granted, you used to be able to sidestep the issue by upgrading RAM and HDDs yourself, but an apples-to-apples comparison of base models is still relevant.
Subpar for the expectance of high sales, no doubt they are exceptional machines (I am typing from a M1 Max 16"). They would not except the same sales performance from the M1, that's past.
.Yeah. Every time the store comes back up after an event/press release it’s astonishing the jump in some prices. Wonder if they will come down when inflation falls?
This is why Apple should sell services - but Tim failed. Apple still acquires companies and great apps, but instead of rolling out the business to as many platforms as possible, it deletes the Android part and makes everything Apple only.
But you are on a subscription model with Apple already. Apple Pay - Apple gets a small share for each transaction. iCloud storage costs you money.
To be cut off when economic factors limit spending like an unnecessary Netflix subscription? We do not need more subscriptions, people are already drowning in them. There is only so much businesses can either cover or pass on to customers to offer an attractive price point to do what they do and people are cutting back on spending. We have just had two banks fail, one saved by being bought out, redundancies and restructuring have been announced by many businesses, even Apple has implemented a hiring freeze.
Intel and AND are catching up fast. In fact the new Intels are doing much better than M2. We need regular releases to compete.
Where are people seeing a price increase? M2 Max 16” costs the same as I spent on the M1 Max. I am in the US.
Macs are not anymore expensive, it's just Apple not correctly pricing it.This thread is hilarious. "Macs are too expensive" is nothing new. Prices have been the same or have gone down after you factor in inflation, but sales have taken a big downturn even as new models are introduced.
PC sales across the board have taken a big hit so this obviously isn't an Apple-specific issue. In fact, Apple has seen LESS of a downturn than other manufacturers. This is a broad industry issue and an economic issue. But by all means, let's keep venting about how "slow SSDs" or "RAM costs too much!" or whatever other little pet peeves we have here are somehow issues people outside this little tech forum bubble actually give a crap about. Blame it on the notch or "bezels", while you're at it
Apple MUST leave 8Gb only for the iPad. It's unnaceptable to have a CPU with the power of M2 with less than 12Gb of RAM. It's 2023 friends!
