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Apple's Phil Schiller: 'We Don't Design for Price, We Design for the Experience'
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I guess you missed the big ol' screen part that makes up 90% of it.A screen on a hinge with a pizza box under it. Such innovation
Microsoft invented the screen. You heard it here first.
PS the very words I used were "a screen on a hinge"
Watch their keynote from yesterday, you missed something.A screen on a hinge with a pizza box under it. Such innovation
I watched but I'll humor you. Tell me all the innovation I missed while watching it.
In what part of my comment did I say that or anything related to that?
I said
A screen on a hinge with a pizza box under it. Such innovation
You said (rather bizarrely)
So tell me, what point were you making?
You missed the point here.
My guess is 90% of us Mac users were still happy to pay the Mac premium as it was, give users long over due spec bumps across the line and keep the prices the same as you have done for years.
Or create a new pro line with a new price point. E.g. Air line or MacBook line.
As Steve Martin would say, But Nooooo!
Choice gone
Price escalated
You come along with love it or leave it.
As for me and my money, it is leave it.
Again, I think you missed the tech in the screen ... since claiming it's a screen on a hinge without acknowledging the screen tech at all is silly. It was a childish comment.
I'm Jony Ive's age, but it's time for anyone on the Executive Team who is over 40 to go. These people have all become so wealthy that they can no longer relate to their customers. A $500 price increase? With the sluggish economy, they should have CUT the price by $200!
Nobody gives a damn about saving half a pound or three millimeters of thickness.
I want a Mac Pro in a laptop (it's a laptop, Apple, NOT a notebook) form factor, so I want 32 GB of memory, I want Kaby Lake processors, I want 25% or 50% more battery life.
I would gladly trade a Touch Bar for these features, because they actually give me something.
And what's with it costing $1,200 to UPGRADE from 500 GB of flash to 2 TB? A NEW SSD is $650!
Apple is completely out of touch. Tim has succumbed to his bean-counting, and is trying to make up for slowing iPhone sales by taking more profit out of the hide of Mac owners. Just greedy and disgusting.
Nobody gives a damn about saving half a pound or three millimeters of thickness.
I want a Mac Pro in a laptop (it's a laptop, Apple, NOT a notebook) form factor, so I want 32 GB of memory, I want Kaby Lake processors, I want 25% or 50% more battery life.
I would gladly trade a Touch Bar for these features, because they actually give me something.
And what's with it costing $1,200 to UPGRADE from 500 GB of flash to 2 TB? A NEW SSD is $650!
Apple is completely out of touch. Tim has succumbed to his bean-counting, and is trying to make up for slowing iPhone sales by taking more profit out of the hide of Mac owners. Just greedy and disgusting.
You really have trouble with context don't you? I was replying to someone talking about yesterday's Microsoft keynote
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So what tech was in the screen that's innovative? Still waiting.
Yea Phil, we "don't design for price" easy for you to say you're not the one who's been saving for nearly two years to upgrade, only for Apple to release one that's still overpriced. Even the base models are pricey so on that note enjoy spinning the sh*t out of that one, meanwhile myself and other apple users who have been for years are the ones who feel the pain of this.
You don't have to marry iOS with OS X, clearly under Cook and Ive's direction it will be a monster, but to have a detachable touch screen on a MacBook... Why not? There's something to think about.
I understand Tim Cook and the spirit of Steve Jobs is against adding TouchScreens to their Laptops/Desktop computers but I really think Apple missed out on incorporating some great current technology with these new Macbook Pros. Say for instance:
-Allowing the "Apple Pencil" to be used on Macbook Pro screens
-Wireless charging of idevices through Macbook Pros
-Integrating iphones and iPads as secondary touchbars to get even larger areas of touch options with zero lag response.
-Isight camera built into the center of the screen
-Touchbar location on the actual screen so users never take their eyes off of the screen.
-etc. etc. etc.
I have many more ideas that Apple can sure have from me.
-Allowing the "Apple Pencil" to be used on Macbook Pro screens
-Wireless charging of idevices through Macbook Pros
-Integrating iphones and iPads as secondary touchbars to get even larger areas of touch options with zero lag response.
-Isight camera built into the center of the screen
-Touchbar location on the actual screen so users never take their eyes off of the screen.
-etc. etc. etc.
I have many more ideas that Apple can sure have from me.
And this is the problem. This isn't even worth replying to.
"Affordability is "absolutely something we care about," Schiller says."
"My ass!" To use Mr Schiller's term. They plainly don't care. They apparently know people will buy it because of osX.
It's getting harder for me to justify this much money for any computer.
"My ass!" To use Mr Schiller's term. They plainly don't care. They apparently know people will buy it because of osX.
It's getting harder for me to justify this much money for any computer.
Lol there's nothing innovative about it whatsoever and you know it. Sulking and playing "isn't even worth replying to" card just makes it even more absurd.
Microsoft Screen on a Hinge Plus Professional Edition 2017™ Such Innovation
Lots of people only come here for keynotes... that's just as it has always been. It's when there's something to talk about. Only certain people get excited by mid-cycle blurry photos of possible iPhone screen.
Another can't who can't name a single piece of innovation and responds with a glib non-sequitur. Love it