Apple Retail Stores to Receive Facelift Highlighting Software?

[Eric S.]

Eventually Apple will become a software company with products like iLife & i Work .. even an alternative OS like OS X .

Apple couldn't stay in business as an OS developer if they didn't sell their own computer platforms. Other OEMs are locked into deals to provide Windows on their systems, and not enough customers would be willing to pay extra to buy OS X when Windows is already installed.

 

[poxonyou]

Apple has sided with Digital Downloads rather than Physical Media (optical discs) as far as the latest format war.

Their "support" of DVD (which I hear is no longer even featured in iLife) is left-over from the 90's...

The latest format war was between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, not optical discs vs downloads. Blu-Ray has too large of an advantage for digital downloads to keep up for some time. Is Apple planning to wait 5-10 years for broadband speeds and user HDD (or SSD) space to allow digital downloads equal to current Blu-Ray quality? Well, in that time Blu-Ray movies will likely be optimized for 500GB discs as the technology hasn't reached its capacity peak.

In the long run, I agree we may be heading away from discs completely, but trying to do that now when the technology for digital downloads is not there to provide high quality movies for the average person, makes their computers less useful than PCs.

If I have a 1080p HD TV, which is fairly common now, and will be more so after the mandatory digital TV switch over, will I prefer spending my money on a hard copy of a movie that makes full use of my screen, or a soft copy that provides video at lower quality then DVDs? The iTunes store should be offering 1080p movies now...yeah, they're 15-40GB, but it will help keep people from deciding to get a PC with a Blu-Ray player because they can watch better quality movies on it.

 

[BenRoethig]

Apple has sided with Digital Downloads rather than Physical Media (optical discs) as far as the latest format war.

Their "support" of DVD (which I hear is no longer even featured in iLife) is left-over from the 90's...

Then the world is still living in the 90s. Digital downloads will eventually win out, but not until everyone (the MPAA, the movie companies, the software companies and Apple) get their heads out of their collective posteriors, its not going to be accepted the way it should be. You don't have the same rights you do with a digital download that you do with a boxed copy in a lot of cases.

 

[SandynJosh]

You mean any Apple fan who wants to pay market price for hardware that is over a year old (iMac) and 2 years old (mac mini)??

Oh and I can roll my eyes too!

You just repeated what I said: "To the Apple fans, the products are outdated."

To the large mass of people who are looking for something to do what they want done, the current offering does what they want the products to do and do it fast enough to satisfy them.

Fans want the latest thing, regardless of whether they need that performance or not.

It's best to read carefully what you are going to respond on unless you're pretending to misread so you can make a straw dog argument.

 

[RebootD]

It's best to read carefully what you are going to respond on unless you're pretending to misread so you can make a straw dog argument.

Oh I read it just fine and I made my point exactly as I meant to, so when you are finished with the condescending tone (If it is possible since most of posts are the same) you will realize I feel sorry for the 'average' consumer because they are ignorant enough to buy the current 'good enough for their needs' lineup at 150% markup to its real value.

The argument isn't if the average Joe needs a quad core but paying reasonable prices that reflect the outdated hardware within them. It is beyond sad that they charge the same today for 2006 hardware pricing and people eat it up.