This is exactly right. The iPad would compare or at least compete with the MS Surface if they opened the platform.
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This is exactly right. The iPad would compare or at least compete with the MS Surface if they opened the platform.
I’ve already started. Whilst I have two Mac Pro at home and am hanging for for dear life that a new Mac Pro is on the way, yesterday I bought a Surface 4.
Seems pretty good too.
Wow
I helped generate 4 paragraphs and five bullet points *pats self on back*
Maybe Macs aren't part of Apple future?
Nope, I think that's an over reaction. I don't think Apple are going to ditch the Mac lineup anytime soon, I really don't but what I do believe, after seeing what apps like Pythonista are capable of, is that iOS will become more powerful and if Apple have the foresight and the balls to open it up, then it might well become the OS of the 1:1 mobile generation. Here's hoping...
yeah, forgot about the air
I would probably buy an air if I was doing the things mentioned above.
Okay.... how about editing the list of activities: browsing internet and writing emails to family, watching Netflix, playing games. For an extra entertainment device, the ipad would be sufficient for many people.
I agree with you there. I just bought a used iPad for my wife to use in the kitchen and around the house. Got an under the counter mount for it, too. She loves it.
As an aside, many of those things I mentioned I use my iMac for. The Air I use for work on the go. My point is that my wife's usage and mine are totally different categories. To see Apple abandon one for the other will alienate a group of users, such as myself.
You forgot,
6. dumped a successful router business that provided a seamlessly integrated backup solutions for desktops and continued a failed wrist watch business that serves as a severely scaled down redundant mini-iphone spin-off.
I remember being so excited about apple hardware refreshes back in 98-99 on wards.. Every few months they were blowing our minds with some new software package that let us do more amazing creative things on hardware that was equivalent of a "G4 Tank". They created excitement to hardware. Now it is the same old product that is trying hard to be the thinnest thing possible. Each year they make it less powerful to ease us into a mindset that it is okay to sell slow machines for the sake of design esthetics. Steve always kept a balance of this. Now it is just embarrassing misdirection with no clear future strategy other than to milk what is there already.
Where is the new software to help us create or the hardware that boasts the fast processing to get your tasks done quicker. Yup.. all gone to peddle some more phones to tweeners that mindlessly buy .99 apps.
Honestly, how do you "change the world" with an iphone or apple watch. The culture is all about making the money now. sad. I bought apple machines from the 90's up until 2010. They had a serious lull between going to Ivy Bridge in 2012 and I just couldn't wait any longer. I went to PC (hack mac) after 2 decades of buying only apple hardware. They are selling laptops inside of screens (imac).. and their pro machine is a black can with no attention paid to it for pro needs... what is going on with them. They are losing the people that kept them afloat in the late 90s.
Sorry - should've been clearer. I was being sarcastic but at the same time pointing out how Apple might spin it. "Mac sales are down so clearly no-one wants to use full-blown computers anymore. That's why we're releasing seventeen different iPad models this year" etc etc.
Personally, I think the iPad is pretty useless apart from certain specific applications (like keeping a small child quiet in a restaurant).
I don't grasp your response - Apple has many, many engineers - vast resources. They can only work on a few things at a time??????????
Yes, but running a large department or successful company doesn't have anything to do with the power you need in a machine: in non-creative fields, you could often do that with literally any computer on the market, or one 15 years old. Excel and Powerpoint don't need a "pro" machine.
"Pro" is for technical requirements (and yes, they were snotty
Fair enough.
I just prefer people stop referring to their own particular requirements as doing "real work" and dismiss others as doing nothing of significance with their devices. It's like you can't use an iPad or non-pro Mac to get important work done. Which is just plain false!
BTW - the fact that the vast majority of working professionals can get their jobs done on machines with technology that is 5-10 years old might explain why Apple has put less of their resources into Macs. Law of diminishing returns.
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This is not an over reaction. Apple has not given proper attention to the Mac for the last 3 years.
ok, Thanks for the clarification (sarcasm and parody is hard to pick up on the internet)
I like the iPad myself. I'm still using my iPad air as my "go to around the house" device for consumption. While sitting on the couch, reading casual sites and having next to me while i play games / /etc".
But it doesn't replace my Surface Pro 2 for "laptop" like duty, when I actually have to get things done, or do a lot of typing. Especially when I'm forced to do a lot of task switching and copy and pasting.
I actually use my iPad about 50% of the time with RDP to my desktop and use Windows 10 on my iPad that way. It works great. And I've got full computer power behind it. But obviously this only works in the house.
Maybe they took Steve Jobs old quote stating, "Apple is organized like a start-up" a bit too literally and just have massive teams working on small specific things.
It's the only Apple product I still use. I've moved away from the iPhone, AirPort, Apple TV and iPad.
Never read so much crap in all my life! Talk about making the biggest Apple apologist excuses ever!!!
It's pathetic and worrying if anatomists believe the richest corporation, far richer then some countries, is incapable of actually developing more then one product at a time!
Nothing more then a lame excuse, I suspect they need to try and boost their returns on those shares..
Perhaps these analysts will proclaim Apple is copying Microsoft because its changed computers aimed at artists if Apple ever updates the iMac!!
The Mac Pro is dead, the iMac who the hell knows? Or perhaps Apple enjoys rinsing everyone dry from all those ancient specs and inflated prices, at least the MacBook Pro has new specs now, albeit for an even bigger inflated price.
It's pathetic and worrying if anatomists believe the richest corporation, far richer then some countries, is incapable of actually developing more then one product at a time!
Nothing more then a lame excuse, I suspect they need to try and boost their returns on those shares..
Perhaps these analysts will proclaim Apple is copying Microsoft because its changed computers aimed at artists if Apple ever updates the iMac!!
The Mac Pro is dead, the iMac who the hell knows? Or perhaps Apple enjoys rinsing everyone dry from all those ancient specs and inflated prices, at least the MacBook Pro has new specs now, albeit for an even bigger inflated price.
Sure. Just give me an iPad capable of running 64 tracks in Logic with dozens of powerful 3rd party synths and effects and I might not complain. Until then get off your ass and release a decent machine.
The only person that doesn't seem to understand this is Tim Cook. Add USB-C and allow localized back ups would be a nice start to the iPad.
You're surprised because either you lack long term memory or you're rather new to Apple's traditional practices. It's selling well because Apple is following their tried and true business practice and that being to look at the big picture, and not the vocal minority, which includes you.
Besides failing GPUs, which Apple will address anyway because of warranty, and a buggy Touchbar which eventual software updates will address (gimmicky being subjective), everything else on your list are the same kinds of things we've already seen stretching all the way back to the very first iMac that Steve Jobs unveiled back in 1997, and has been the norm with every new major Mac product announcement since. Miniaturization, removal of legacy tech, including ports, and continued soldering are nothing new in Apple's history.
In other words, nothing has changed, only the people have.
On top of that, it would often suffice just to upgrade the CPU / GPU / RAM / SSD / display / ports specs. How hard is that for a billion dollar company with ~100k employees? No need to re-invent the wheel every time. Actually, I think the mac lineup would be superior to todays lineup if just internals had been upgraded regularly, without changing anything else (e.g. Mac Pro, xServe, displays, MB Pro, etc.).
if the iPad was truly the "future of computing" the iPad would not be rejected by consumers in the way it is now. The sales are really really lagging.
People want fast, updated, accessible, machines across a product line that allows you to plug in the cable that comes with your iPhone into your new laptop.
Ease of use, accessibility, power.
People want fast, updated, accessible, machines across a product line that allows you to plug in the cable that comes with your iPhone into your new laptop.
Ease of use, accessibility, power.
I know of a lawyer that offers complimentary ice water to those that can physically prove they reside in hell. give my regards to Steve.
They are. It is simply that some people are so hung up on the mythical definition of what "Pro" is that they can't see it.
Agreed, more demanding and a lot more anger. Although I'm as I said before, selling a Mac Mini with a 5400rpm hdd is basically a joke and their prices are way too high. If they lowered their pricing even by 15% they would dominate... mental...