Lol that ship has sailed long ago bro.. actions speak louder than words.
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Lol that ship has sailed long ago bro.. actions speak louder than words.
Steve didn't follow trend ... he made it.
I hardly watched it live, no way in hell im watching the whole turd again.
Exactly!
I really don’t understand why people are being so negative. Everything seemed interesting apart from News+. That’s only because I’ve never been into reading magazines. The card seemed like classic Apple with easy to use merge of hardware, software and service; the gaming one gave me hope of fun games that will challenge the crap that is F2P (free to play) games that flood the App Store; TV+ shows actually seemed a bit interesting, although the interface looked cluttered. No prices for most things - you know why? They’ll announce a Prime style bundle price.
People complaining that Apple has lost its way and is trying to do too much - HA! They’re giving us extra value for our iOS and Mac devices for when they’re still being used by us in 3 years. They’re playing the long game here. This goes well with what they said last year about making our devices last so long, building loyalty. This is no different from how a Mac can last 7 or 8 years before it’s dead. My first Mac was a 2009 MBP, which I bought off eBay for £740 in 2010 - the hard drive or the connection cable broke last summer.
Apple has lost its way? Not focused? HA! GET OUT OF IT!
By revenue, they’re primarily a phone maker, with services a distant second place and both Macs and iPads well behind that.
I remember the days I would skip work just to watch Steve give a keynote.
Now I don't even tune in. ZZZZzzzzzzzz......
Now I don't even tune in. ZZZZzzzzzzzz......
The main thing that sucks about Apple events now is that they are toooo tooo tooo stylish and corporate. Some of the presenters are too made up and glammed up. It appears out of touch with how many people out in the real world are struggling to live pay check to pay check. When Jobs was around the presentations had some rough edges, real talk, some unscripted moments, and sometimes people who dress badly and don’t have a personal stylist.
"Newspapers largely shun Apple's news subscription service"
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https://apnews.com/4c463558fb70464591b823ff5add3be7
Thats ok too. They continue to make Macs and as long as they do and continue to enhance it, they are still Apple heart and soul. It doesn't really matter if it takes them a little longer to update the Macs. Just as long as they keep doing so.
Sorry I missed your /s
.Not only they take longer but put out outdated tech when they finally do, also killing upgrade-ability.
- After 3 consecutive MBP generations they are still shipping unreliable keyboards
- Designed a mouse which can't even be used while charging (not even bothering to fix that)
- Overpriced most mac line to the roof, crappy webcams, mediocre thermals, average displays, bezels, stagnant refresh rate & battery life, T2 chip still crashing, speakers crackling still happening since 2016
- Safari & it's extensions the new IE
- Keyboards bend (130usd not even backlit), iPad pro bends, iphone 6 bent
- Port inconsistencies throughout devices (so much for the "ecosystem" lol)
- The touch bar industry's all time epic fail
- Intel modems
- Launch a mobile gaming service while shipping Mac line with subpar GPUs
- Claim 4 4k displayed extension via thunderbolt 3 but in reality can barely handle 1 or 2 running 4k content simultaneously smoothly because again, subpar GPU remember?
- Convoluted product lines just to penny pinch
- Stockholder oriented business model
- Forcing users to buy crappy touch bar model or get worse hardware specs, etc, etc
You need to switch platforms. Clearly you are unhappy and why punish yourself. Leave the Mac ecosystem and be done with it.Sorry I missed your /s
Not only they take longer but put out outdated tech when they finally do, also killing upgrade-ability.
But don't me wrong, in the end, most users complaining here would even buy diapers with an apple logo, so I'm likely just delusional.
- After 3 consecutive MBP generations they are still shipping unreliable keyboards
- Designed a mouse which can't even be used while charging (not even bothering to fix that)
- Overpriced most mac line to the roof, crappy webcams, mediocre thermals, average displays, bezels, stagnant refresh rate & battery life, T2 chip still crashing, speakers crackling still happening since 2016
- Safari & it's extensions the new IE
- Keyboards bend (130usd not even backlit), iPad pro bends, iphone 6 bent
- Port inconsistencies throughout devices (so much for the "ecosystem" lol)
- The touch bar industry's all time epic fail
- Intel modems
- Launch a mobile gaming service while shipping Mac line with subpar GPUs
- Claim 4 4k displayed extension via thunderbolt 3 but in reality can barely handle 1 or 2 running 4k content simultaneously smoothly because again, subpar GPU remember?
- Convoluted product lines just to penny pinch
- Stockholder oriented business model
- Forcing users to buy crappy touch bar model or get worse hardware specs, etc, etc
Just a thought, but maybe this was the endgame of the Personal Computing industry from the very beginning?
Without presenting any value judgements, vis-à-vis Cook vs. Jobs, I continue to observe an unsettling trend on Apple's part that pushes consumption rather than production. I'm sure this is an industry-wide trend, but it worries me nonetheless.
The original Macintosh, and most of Apple's hardware and software circa 2000-2010 (the iPod and iTunes Store excepted) were marketed and designed as tools that allowed the average person to create, empowering the user. While some of these tools are still ostensibly around, others have been unceremoniously shuttered and lock-down instituted on both hardware and software. Today's focus seems to be on consumption, maintaining a steady diet of other peoples' images and sounds, all while steadily feeding the ever-hungry mouth of Ma Apple (among many others).
Without saying anything about the economic consequences of this trend, the social consequences I see most generally tend to a surrender of our personal agency to the gadgets and corporations to whom we have unassumingly entrusted our lives. Under such conditions, our creative and critical thinking faculties cannot help but atrophy. Even if this seems benign or misguided to some of you now, this individual decay makes society as a whole weaker; susceptible to demagoguery, enchanted by the ephemeral, rootless and unable to see beyond what is presented to us.
Bringing this back around, Apple cannot be all things to all people. If they don't realize this sooner than later, things will really start to go south, regardless of what the prognosticators say. Like many before them, Apple seem to have drunk their own Kool-Aid. Apple was (and is) referred to as a cult by certain parties, entrapping its users in its own aura of magic and reality-distortion. I've never lent much credence to such biased remarks, but with Apple seemingly attempting to provide everything short of your groceries now, I can certainly imagine a very dangerous religion continuing to grow around the company (and the tech industry as a whole).
Unlikely. As scary as the idea of a group of high priests carefully orchestrating society's every move is, the scarier (or more freeing) truth is that no one is really in charge.
Even if someone had plotted for this to happen back in the 80's or 90's, there have been so many variables since then. The personal computing industry is shaped by flesh-and-blood humans, just like ourselves. They are no better or worse than anyone else. And they (and we) can always change course and work for the sovereignty of the individual.