Perhaps somebody should have asked him the following…
1: Why are you purposely restricting some features in Monterey for people still on Intel machines. I know somebody who has spent £30k only months ago on a Mac Pro for work. What possible reason could there be to restrict? The Mac Pro processors and gpus are more than powerful to do what the Apple silicon can for them features.
Did the intel processor in that Mac Pro have a neural engine? In package third generation secure enclave? No?
Then that's why.
2: Why do they keep quoting the line “we just want to build the best things” when they don’t allow an Apple Watch to sync with an iPad or Mac so people that don’t use a phone very much, can still have a cellular watch.
They have been instead building the watch to eventually be a completely separate device. They didn't add the ability to activate your iphone and configure your home screen on the ipad - they removed it from macOS and windows.
3: Why do they charge such obscene amounts of money for ram? They don’t allow people to add it themselves on Apple silicon. Blatantly ripping people off by putting in 8GB, when they know most will want more, is just a crap move.
1. Because people will pay it?
2. Physical connections like slots cause noise and signal loss. Moving the memory away from the SoP greatly increases these as well as adds significant latency. They mount the memory directly because there are trade-offs of doing it otherwise.
3. Have you priced the memory they use for Apple Silicon? It isn't stock. Where would you expect to buy it (if it was replaceable without a reflow station?)
4: Why are we still stuck with low res webcams? There is not a single excuse for doing this apart from cheaping out and maximising profit. They could easily put an iPhone 12 Pro Max front facing camera in and I bet it wouldn’t cost that much more money due to economies of scale as they must buy millions of them for the phones.
The usual excuse is the same excuse as to why they have the 'bump' on iphones for the rear-facing cameras - physics. That said, I have no idea what hardware you are talking about. If it is the iMac, the front-facing iphone camera is part of the FaceID module, so your question should have been "why doesn't the iMac have FaceID".
5: Why do they keep on bringing a new operating system for the Mac, phone, iPad, tv etc every year? Just in the music industry alone, I know lots of producers that are on 3/4yr old os’s as plugins take a long time to update. Catalina was an abomination for compatibility. Big sur hasn’t been much better. Just change to every 2yrs and give people a chance to actually enjoy the new os.
As a user you don't need to upgrade the OS every year. However, it is expected that software developers keep their **** up to date. Falling behind is a _nightmare_ for Apple developers, because apple actually _does_ remove obsoleted API every year - the changes compound until your software no longer works.
As to why not every other year - because doing something less often often makes it harder. This is actually why they have started spreading features out amongst minor releases too, when they can be sure the changes don't break existing software.
Thats _why_ WWDC exists, to give developers a heads up and a chance to test and upgrade/fix their software. The public keynote, these interviews? Because once the builds are public, people will start to talk about the features and speculate on what is coming. Apple wants to set expectations by starting that narrative.
But if developers aren't even going to try to support the new OS, we'd just see this all land in September - users would be excited, upgrade, and then give angrygrams and one star reviews to developers when the OS complains that the app needs to be upgraded. That would also lead more users to not upgrade the OS, so its a lose/lose.
