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Apple's Online Store Down Ahead of Today's 'Hello Again' Mac Event
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I would think we'd have seen leaked iMac parts by now if they would launch in November or at least some references in the new OS...
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Why would/should they do that? Pretty sure that most people have learned by now to only buy Macs directly from Apple at the beginning of their release cycle.
Tell what you just said to the "person on the street". That person would just look at you with the dead eyes. That is really my point. If they want to have meaningful, long term penetration and growth beyond the iphone, they need to push their latest and greatest to the whole product line, and new products need to be available to legacy hardware users, even if it is for show.
So much better that it was cutting out and is now delayed? I agree that their chip work is impressive, but come on, missing deadlines with products, demand issues etc. You can't disagree that they need to tighten up like the old days.
Finally! Now everyone can stop complaining....
If you believe that, you believe anything.
Hmmm. An OS intended to run on everything from a phone to a server and devices with unlimited configurations and ports to connect to all sorts of peripherals. A product line that's trying to be all things to all people!
Sounds like Windows to me.
They got 80% of the profits, that's the only thing that really counts.
Getting that extra 5% market share would bring them maybe 5-10% more for an enormous effort, a lot more support staff and an extended product line
The October event where we are all sitting at home disappointed.
Our Mac desktop lineup refresh event! Helllloooo...
Just... update on one product, nothing else, oh, and here's a shiny apple tv....
In the meantime Google releases a great Android phone, and Microsoft a great all in one studio machine.
What's happening to this world.
Our Mac desktop lineup refresh event! Helllloooo...
Just... update on one product, nothing else, oh, and here's a shiny apple tv....
In the meantime Google releases a great Android phone, and Microsoft a great all in one studio machine.
What's happening to this world.
I predict the portables announced in this event will be touted by Apple as being "innovative" as much for the increased storage/RAM size choices ... oh, and new colors ... as it will be for the rumored OLED touch bar.
From the crowd here, there will be more excitement about increased RAM capacity options and SSD sizes than there will be about anything else. I also predict there will be some that LOL about the new colors being labeled "innovative."
From the crowd here, there will be more excitement about increased RAM capacity options and SSD sizes than there will be about anything else. I also predict there will be some that LOL about the new colors being labeled "innovative."
It's mind boggling how so many people can be so disappointed with an event that hasn't even happened yet.
Android is to the iPhone as what the PC is to the Mac. Android is an open platform and eventually, maybe in 10 - 20 years, it's going to totally eclipse the iPhone. You'll have the iPhone with its niche 5% of the phone market and Android on everything else. I also see desktop Linux eventually (it could be another 10+ years) overtaking MacOS too. If I were Tim I would be thinking about long term strategy because over the long term the market favors open platforms.
I am saying that they can't even fake it. Make a self published app that can allow pencil work as a simple stylus or writing device, put the apps on legacy phones, and let people take notes, for the love of the Sweet Baby... Just fake it and get product into people's hands, and quit sniffing the hind quarters of every entertainer and fashion mogul that will show up for the free champagne and photo op. I am pointing to a bigger problem; At this time, Apple is selling a lot of sizzle with very little steak, and other producers like Microsoft have much more traction, such as in enterprise, where it counts. Apple is not wowing. Put the LTE chip in the watch. Make all pads equivalent to PRO. Make the pencil work with more devices. Make me a giant touch pad that I can lay on and make snow angles. Make me a VR headset that I can use to fly and take selfies. Make some magic. That was the deal, wasn't it?
If I wanted to be brief, I could say "Bad Apple". Am I too wordy?
haha - I should probably start using this line to replace my dear departed mother's "all fart and no sh**"
When I say I think Microsoft made a great surface studio, that's just based on a video as if it is produced by Apple, with a machine that looks like it's an apple device, well, that stand though.. and the software in the video finally looks well designed..
How usable it is, how upgradable it is, how it actually performs when it has to handle big data. how much noise it makes, how easily it overheats, how it dies when 1 thing doesn't work well, what the service is on the problem solving side of things, how serviceable it is when hardware breaks down. Why it doesn't come with SSD inside, why that usb, but not usb-c, can I connect 5k dell as second monitor, etc. etc.. It's microsoft, i have no doubt it will not be the experience it promises or implies in their video. But yay, for once a well designed machine with a handful of great but really expensive software, that might just be a bit of competition to apple products.. in the years where apple isn't really keeping their desktops up to date.
Can't say I am praising it, but I am acknowledging it's a nice surprise
Not at all. You put it into your pocket, it's an iPhone. You connect a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and it's a the power behind a desktop computer. iOS running the phone part, MacOS X running the desktop part. The number of peripherals would be three: Monitor, mouse, keyboard.
I am saying that it would take minimal effort to show a pencil working on an iphone 5, or 6, or drawing pad, with an app, showing the pencil used as a rudimentary stylus. I am not talking about "calling all nerds". I am talking about sales and perceptions, marketing, carrot and sticking consumers, being aggressive, trying harder..
The pencil has a tip. Put the tip on the screen and make a note. You mean I can wear a pair of gloves that can interface with a touch screen, but they cannot let the pencil work as a simple styles too interface with a touch screen? Pu-LEASE.
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Even a chicken makes a little manure.
Was that the deal? I don't know, maybe I've always had more realistic ideas of what a consumer electronics company is supposed to do but I never thought that was the deal. I've never expected magic every time. By my count Apple has truly changed the way we interact with electronics (and even with the world around us, each other) maybe three or four times. That's three or four times more than most tech companies, and that's the truth. Apple's biggest obstacle they face is that they've hit too many home runs and now people expected a world-changer every year or two. It's just not realistic.
