I never thought I would say it, but maybe it's time to switch. I've been trying to rationalize the decisions apple has been making but after the mac event I'm just mad.Every piece of news on the front page SUCKS.
MacBook Pros max out at 16GB ram.
Apple promoting junky looking 3rd party display enclosure.
Power brick extension cable not even included with MBP anymore?!?!
Goddamn it, Tim.
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Apple Says It's Out of the Standalone Display Business
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Sigh. It's not only depressing knowing that persons gone but that the seemingly only person who understood "it" isn't making the right decisions anymore. Love him or hate him, Jobs was a big part of Apple's return which is quickly being undone.
Oh well... I'll miss the nice clean design. Can't say I'm a fan of the LG, but I'm sure it's not the only one out there. I've got a couple cinema displays that still work fine-- though I'd like the higher resolution if I could. I was hoping Apple would at least resort to selling an iMac without the Mac.
I wonder how many displays Apple sold. From the comments here it sounds like most people liked them for their design, and I count myself among that group. Not sure it made sense for Apple to keep selling nice furniture though.
I'm also with the group questioning if we'll see a new Mac Pro. I know there's still the iMac, but if the MP goes away the iMac would probably be next. Is it possible to maintain an all laptop product line or does the whole ecosystem become unsustainable once they drop the desktops from the line?
I wonder how many displays Apple sold. From the comments here it sounds like most people liked them for their design, and I count myself among that group. Not sure it made sense for Apple to keep selling nice furniture though.
I'm also with the group questioning if we'll see a new Mac Pro. I know there's still the iMac, but if the MP goes away the iMac would probably be next. Is it possible to maintain an all laptop product line or does the whole ecosystem become unsustainable once they drop the desktops from the line?
Anyone else notice the irony in Cue's emphasis on the new MacBook Pro's design and form which is suddenly juxtaposed with a plastic display that's limited to the new "elegant" and "incredible" Mac's?
Man, I am sure the image quality of these displays are great but boy what a freaking ugly design. 
That's yesterday's Apple. Today's Apple still uses the same marketing tropes as yesterday's, but the underlying philosophy is driven by profit now. Apple monitors were a low volume product that didn't drive profits. This LG monitor will be a low volume product as well but will have more profit built in since it's not in a premium enclosure. If Apple wanted LG to build a kick ass screen in a super sweet enclosure, we would have gotten a super sweet enclosure around a kick ass screen. Ain't no profit in super sweet kick ass. So you get plastic. You can take solace in the fact that the marketing buzzwords are still essentially the same though.
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Pretty much the truth here. I can see refurb units going like hotcakes now.
Apple worked with LG to make their monitor have huge bezels ? Weird.
But look at the LG monitors make :
http://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-27UD88-W-4k-uhd-led-monitor
There is like no bezel on that LG except for the bottom
The 3:2 & 4096x2304 resolution seems amazing though.
But look at the LG monitors make :
http://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-27UD88-W-4k-uhd-led-monitor
There is like no bezel on that LG except for the bottom
The 3:2 & 4096x2304 resolution seems amazing though.
Taking bets now on the next announcement being: Apple has decided to discontinue Mac Pro & Mac Mini
That's why I bought an LG 3K Ultra-Wide Screen a while ago... Even an old Mac Mini of 2011 can output 3440x1440 over HDMI to that screen. 30Hz only, but enough for all of the stuff I use it for. 5K gets you more pixels, but I found 21:9 is actually a dual-screen replacement solution which is, practically speaking, a lot more usefull than a 27" retina screen. Apart from photo editing and probably CAD I see no benefit whatsoever. The latter isn't the strenght of a Mac. Better let's not talk about gaming.
oh noooo!!! they are all the same !!!
Scott Forestall should be the current Apple CEO. They fired him because he would not bend to the stupidity and vanity of Jony Ive and Tim Crook
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Makes sense, especially considering that they just came out with 3 new overpriced Macs with ports no one can use without buying a bucket full of dongles.
It should be fairly obvious by now that Tim Cook's 'vision' is focused on profits for stockholders and not much else. he will kill off the computer business and sell phones and cloud services. Tim's Apple doesn't care how the company makes money - only that it makes money. Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, Sam Walton and the like, built their companies on creative products and pride. The ideals they built their fortunes on are extinct.
I still use my Thunderbolt Display and really like it, would have been nice to see a current follow up for it.
The problem with this approach is, I think, that since they are only focusing on high margin money maker products, when one of those products fails or falls out of fashion, they will have nothing else to stabilize them.
Any dent in iPad or iPhone sales now makes them really vulnerable.
It makes sense for them to be out of the display business seeing as how they're also out of the computer business.
I didn't bother reading through the 11 pages, but I think it's a smart move. Apple wants to have a markup on their products or have them standout. With everything going to a unified port like USB-C, there's no longer any added benefit like in the past of using a proprietary cable to charge the laptop. I don't think this is a sign of discontinuing the Mac Pro.
For a lot of you saying, whats the big deal, its only a display, you are completely missing the point. This is not about a monitor, its about the change in Apple's core values. Apple's core values were about making great products at the intersection of technology and liberal arts.
The Apple I know, would not say they "helped" LG with creating a plastic monitor. I would love to see Ive making one of his videos on this but substituting the words aluminium with the words carefully moulded black plastic. This has all to do with LG giving Apple the biggest bucks to promote their product and has nothing to do with Apple's core value of making great products or what this does to their reputation.
Are Monitors and Mac Pro's huge money makers. Absolutely not. But they are an important part of what makes Apple. Sometimes you have to take a loss on some products to maintain your image and make money on the other side of things. Monitors and the Apple Lit logo's (they took that away too) are free advertising to the company. How many times do you walk into an office, watch a press conference or tv show and see all those apple logos. This gives them mind share. Now, when you walk into an office, instead of seeing that Apple logo, LG will get that advertising instead. Huge loss for them.
The Mac Pro is over a thousand days old, The new Macbook Pro maxes out at 16GB. These systems are a huge embarrassment and a slap in the face to the pro community. this did not happen over night but the decision making the last couple of years has slowly turned us pro's from evangelizing Apple and trying to get people to switch to Macs and iPads and iPhones into a hate fest where we say you should stay away because we are switching away too.
Apple needs to go in some serious damage control. The loyal users and pro's have lost trust. They need to come clean of their plans for the pro market, and I mean like now. People are in an uproar and leaving the Apple ecosystem in droves. Unfortunately Tim and company are too blind to see this so I have little hope.
The Apple I know, would not say they "helped" LG with creating a plastic monitor. I would love to see Ive making one of his videos on this but substituting the words aluminium with the words carefully moulded black plastic. This has all to do with LG giving Apple the biggest bucks to promote their product and has nothing to do with Apple's core value of making great products or what this does to their reputation.
Are Monitors and Mac Pro's huge money makers. Absolutely not. But they are an important part of what makes Apple. Sometimes you have to take a loss on some products to maintain your image and make money on the other side of things. Monitors and the Apple Lit logo's (they took that away too) are free advertising to the company. How many times do you walk into an office, watch a press conference or tv show and see all those apple logos. This gives them mind share. Now, when you walk into an office, instead of seeing that Apple logo, LG will get that advertising instead. Huge loss for them.
The Mac Pro is over a thousand days old, The new Macbook Pro maxes out at 16GB. These systems are a huge embarrassment and a slap in the face to the pro community. this did not happen over night but the decision making the last couple of years has slowly turned us pro's from evangelizing Apple and trying to get people to switch to Macs and iPads and iPhones into a hate fest where we say you should stay away because we are switching away too.
Apple needs to go in some serious damage control. The loyal users and pro's have lost trust. They need to come clean of their plans for the pro market, and I mean like now. People are in an uproar and leaving the Apple ecosystem in droves. Unfortunately Tim and company are too blind to see this so I have little hope.