Well, it's about time they showed us what they've been doing with the modular Mac Pro, for better or worse.
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Apple Sends Out Media Invites for an 'It's Show Time' Event on March 25
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I'm wondering what needless restriction they're going to put on it to punish their customers.
Audio only streams to HomePod? iPad Pro required to sign up? Can only change channel with a S4 Apple Watch?
I’m hoping for a total hardware resurrection like every serious hardware manufacturer is doing on a yearly bases. No excuses this time. Either you’re in or you’re out of the hardware business but don’t sell years old crap as if it was new
Wanna transform into a service company? Be sure to play nice with other hardware manufacturers and support it across the board.
You mean those hardware companies that are constantly struggling to meet tiny margins and have horrible service experiences? The ones that Apple competes with currently by remaining in the top 5 despite not playing in their sandbox? The ones that have to eat a fortune in aging inventory? Yeah, sounds like a GREAT plan.
Keep on dreaming... unless it will make Apple lots of $$$ with minimal efforts.
They’re trying the 60% margins on the new services first. For all the saints. No nudity, violence or rough language... good bedtime stories indeed
Lol
Perhaps they’ve decided that since the Siri remote sucks you’ll have to have a HomePod to control the AppleTV 4k+ .... which of course is the only streaming box that will work with the new streaming service.
Who said it’s pessimistic, I would say it’s realistic thinking. But hey, I don’t want to spoil hopes or dreams. I just want to spare you a disappointment
Why should they bundle these two services? If I have Apple Match I'm only paying $25 a year. If they bundle it with Apple Music, now I have to pay $120 a year. Just use Apple Music and turn on iCloud Music Library. It's basically the same thing as having Apple Match.
And besides that, what has Apple done lately to make anybody be optimistic about anything they release?
god, I long for the days before people like you and your pessimism came on here...
Don’t know what company you’re talking about but I find the Apple museum getting bored and tiresome.You mean those hardware companies that are constantly struggling to meet tiny margins and have horrible service experiences? The ones that Apple competes with currently by remaining in the top 5 despite not playing in their sandbox? The ones that have to eat a fortune in aging inventory? Yeah, sounds like a GREAT plan.
It definitely appears to be an event focused on the new streaming service... but I WANT it to be focused on the new Mac Pro! Mac Pro, historically, has been known as the filmmakers' Mac. So I think there's a chance!
You mean those of us that have been customers forever and can’t stand where this company is at right now?
The negativity is actually realistic based upon recent actions and it’s born out of frustration, not pleasure.
He’s a realistic... the others are called naively dreamers
Hopefully they give us a peek at the exciting new action series “developing with Swwwift”
It’s now called swwwift as the employee writing the copy was, unfortunately, using a butterfly keyboard.
It’s now called swwwift as the employee writing the copy was, unfortunately, using a butterfly keyboard.
I don't remember a time when I was less excited for an Apple event.
For me it was “the last Apple event”
IMHO this is a major moment for Apple.
Coming off of multiple quarters of Mac sales dropping ??? and iPhone sales dropping as well, because of price (iPhones) and dumb hardware decisions (MagSafe gone, lame keyboards, touchbar, dongle hell, and throttlegate).
If they roll out this new service and it becomes a flop.....aka HomePod take 2, I predict non-die hard Apple fans to start moving away from their products. Apple music has been successful because it is riding on the Apple hardware success and the fact that the only real competition is Spotify. I think the interface on Apple music is a disaster much like iTunes is today. The video subscription market is full of a good competition and will be a whole different game.
Personally I have zero plans to ever buy a Mac again. I will purchase a new iPhone because it is the better of two not so fantastic choices.
Coming off of multiple quarters of Mac sales dropping ??? and iPhone sales dropping as well, because of price (iPhones) and dumb hardware decisions (MagSafe gone, lame keyboards, touchbar, dongle hell, and throttlegate).
If they roll out this new service and it becomes a flop.....aka HomePod take 2, I predict non-die hard Apple fans to start moving away from their products. Apple music has been successful because it is riding on the Apple hardware success and the fact that the only real competition is Spotify. I think the interface on Apple music is a disaster much like iTunes is today. The video subscription market is full of a good competition and will be a whole different game.
Personally I have zero plans to ever buy a Mac again. I will purchase a new iPhone because it is the better of two not so fantastic choices.
I’m waiting for the event to see if they get announced. If they do, I’ll buy/preorder them along with an Apple Watch band I want. If not, I’ll just get the current AirPods.
Has anyone ever had to replace their Apple Watch sports band that came with their watch? Just want to know how long I can expect it to last.
Well let’s give them the benefit of the doubt, lol. It’s going to be awesome and amazing and... you’ll only see this coming from Apple and they’ve great stuff in the pipeline that will blow you away
I remember hearing the scoffing at the Santa Monica Apple Store when they showed a live feed of the iPod announcement in 2001. Rumors were that Apple was going top buy Universal Music.