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Apple's Renewed Focus on iPad Left the Mac Behind This Year
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Not really! Even bad tech CEOs do annual spec bumps...
I like both IOS and macOS devices, I'm not a fan of conversion, but they all have specific pieces of the market place they can cover, and need to be covering.
Ipad/Iphone : Consumption devices with limited data entry and image capability.
macOS: Both consumption and creation devices. We need Apple to get into a Devops mindset that can continuously improve and build devices on atleast a annual device across all platforms. macOS needs significant investment as competitors are slowly gaining the market place.
Ipad/Iphone : Consumption devices with limited data entry and image capability.
macOS: Both consumption and creation devices. We need Apple to get into a Devops mindset that can continuously improve and build devices on atleast a annual device across all platforms. macOS needs significant investment as competitors are slowly gaining the market place.
Renewed focus on iPad? Did I miss something. I have a 9.7" Pro. It's nice and all but it didn't take the bulk of Apple's engineering power to develop. I mean it doesn't even have 3D Touch or a 2nd gen Touch ID. And then there is what seems to be a bastard child Mini which wasn't even updated. So c'mon to suggest Macs took a hit because Apple was full force working on iPads is a pure unadulterated cop out. Mac took a hit because Apple has gotten fat and lazy. That really goes for all its products, none of which are really standouts anymore, just better than their average competitors and a little help from exploding batteries.
The current XPS 15 is rated at 97% hackintoshable, which is one of the highest.
Correct me if things have dramatically changed over the last 5 years, but an average student in the old days would mostly attend classes / lectures and take hand-written notes. What a coincidence you can do that just fine with a convertible/touchscreen notebook accompanied by a stylus (as a bonus, as compared to a paper, you can record the audio track and maybe even video of the lecture synchronized with the notes, alongside the notes themselves).
Totally agree the iPad Air 2 isn't a Mac replacement, but I really like using mine for web browsing, checking out YouTube, taking notes, play music, read emails, use messaging services, look at photo and videos, soccasional gaming etc. To me it's like an extension of my Mac – I definitely think has a place. But again: a computer replacement it is not.
Don't think you will have any problem selling it.
I couldn't agree more. Tim Cook is about as exciting as wallpaper and he has no product vision whatsoever. I've been a huge fan and consumer of Apple products for the past twelve years, yet currently I am experimenting with Windows and Linux, as I really have no confidence whatsoever in the future of the Mac.
Ah you are mistaking the legacy IR sensor for the new Thunderballs connector.
Which will be needed to connect the all new Magic Cookstick.
I underestimated you!
This surprises me. I have two kids in college, and when I visit them at their universities, 80% (obviously an impression not an accurate estimate) of what I see are Macs. I don't ever remember seeing a Surface Pro. The MBA is very popular because of the cost and portability.
I am not doubting you....just a bit surprised. My kids go to east coast schools (Georgetown and William & Mary), so maybe the trend to Surface Pros is moving west to east. If this is truly happening, I think Apple has a real problem. I understand many folks on this thread are focused on Apple's higher end products, but I am more concerned about the entry level. Apple absolutely must have an attractive up-to-date entry level laptop to capture the student market and future customer base.
Maybe they will drop the price of the 2015 MBP, give it a modest processor update, and replace one of the ports with USB-C. Probably not.....but that would help. Or, perhaps over the next couple of years, we will see the price of the rMB drop closer to the $1,000 magic entry level price point.
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Couldn't resist this slightly adapted Roy Orbison song:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iABFZGzEjY
The applause in the beginning was for when the products were "magical"
"It's Over"
Your Apple doesn't love you anymore
Golden days before they end
Whisper "Hello again" to the wind
Your Apple won't be near you any more
Emojis and wristbands before they fly
Ignore all "Pros" that seem to cry
Your Apple doesn't want you anymore
It's over
It breaks your heart in two, To know the pipeline's been untrue
But oh what will you do? Then they said to you
Surface is new We're through We're through
It's over It's over It's over
All the pipelines in the sky
Start to weep, then say goodbye
You won't be seeing Macs any more
Make things thinner before they fall, Echo to you that's all that's all
But you'll see courage after all
It's over It's over It's over It's over
The MBA was a perfect student machine... and it's been abandoned by Apple
Apple spent years cultivating two market segments: students and creative professionals. That's why people are so angry with this release, they've abandoned both. It's too expensive for college kids, and too underpowered for creative professionals.
17 year olds these days expect touch as a standard interface - they've grown up with tablets - no matter what Apple pretends.
The Microsoft Surface Studio gets better looking every day. I live or die by the Adobe Creative Suite and would really like to buy three new Macs (not old Macs at new prices).
I think some fresh blood at Apple is desperately needed and I wouldn't be surprised if there's some people in Cupertino who feel the same way.
More like people don't want to buy outdated MacBook <2016 and neither want to buy 2016 models that are excessively expensive.
and the other problem is the updated MacBook Pro is a "Don't Buy" for a lot of people here (including me)
Nope, it's still easy if you choose from the recommended hardware and can manage to follow a simple, and not very long, set of instructions. Of course if you can't then a hack isn't for you. The laptop side's more difficult but always has been. Clover disables SIP.
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The display part of it looks great, shame it can't be hooked up to a PC, the processing/graphics would be a downgrade for me. And of course shame it doesn't run osx which is so much nicer to use for photoshop and illustrator.
It's kinda like that moment when Larry Ellison went on Dateline and 20/20 to push his idea about PCs being replaced by thin clients.
SJ may have been somewhat accurate in talking about PCs eventually being used more like trucks after the iPad was introduced but unfortunately, Apple has not done much to really fully develop the idea behind the iPad with it's software to be more useful as a PC replacement than what was created at that time of it's birth. The iPad Pro is still the same thing just with it's bling pencil (albeit a good pencil). Apple continues to make bling instead of something truly game changing in the way we do things. Apple lacks vision or someone that understands the technology and actually wants to do more with it instead of saran wrapping the next boxed up bling to profit from.
Maybe they should loosen it's product control from the executives down to the peons for good ideas. Not only is the hardware lacking but so is the software.
Focus on the iPad?
Like releasing iOS 10 which does not add a single outstanding iPad feature?
Like releasing iOS 10 which does not add a single outstanding iPad feature?
With iPad on decline, they accomplished that customers who don't buy a Mac don't buy an iPad either.
Anti-cannibalisation in 2016...
I think you guys are forgetting the elephant in the room here. Yeah I agree the situation sucks, but there's a perfectly logical explanation for this: Campus 2.
There's a reason why they're spending 5 billion on a new campus - they've run out of space to do work. You don't make this kind of decision lightly, so they obviously saw a need. So while their lineup has expanded, their work facilities haven't kept up. This limits the number of employees you can have (both logistically and legally speaking) in the current campus at any given time. I suspect Apple is stretched thin, and doesn't want to spend money to temporarily accommodate new employees at some offsite location, potentially causing more problems then solving them.
Let's also not forget Campus 2 is a couple years behind schedule. It was originally supposed to be opened in 2015, and we're almost 2017 now. This pretty much corresponds with when the Mac lineup started to suffer, which has been around 2 years now.
Anyway, I'm positive this huge undertaking has thrown more than a few wrenches into their product line. Between designing new products, management also has to plan the logistics of redesigning new workspaces, moving people to those new spaces. These things take a lot of time and energy. We're talking something like 13,000+ employees.
I'm fairly confident things will be back to normal, with regular updates, once Campus 2 is open and they've had time to iron whatever kinks arise from the move.
There's a reason why they're spending 5 billion on a new campus - they've run out of space to do work. You don't make this kind of decision lightly, so they obviously saw a need. So while their lineup has expanded, their work facilities haven't kept up. This limits the number of employees you can have (both logistically and legally speaking) in the current campus at any given time. I suspect Apple is stretched thin, and doesn't want to spend money to temporarily accommodate new employees at some offsite location, potentially causing more problems then solving them.
Let's also not forget Campus 2 is a couple years behind schedule. It was originally supposed to be opened in 2015, and we're almost 2017 now. This pretty much corresponds with when the Mac lineup started to suffer, which has been around 2 years now.
Anyway, I'm positive this huge undertaking has thrown more than a few wrenches into their product line. Between designing new products, management also has to plan the logistics of redesigning new workspaces, moving people to those new spaces. These things take a lot of time and energy. We're talking something like 13,000+ employees.
I'm fairly confident things will be back to normal, with regular updates, once Campus 2 is open and they've had time to iron whatever kinks arise from the move.
Either that or the return of some really good "old" blood like Avie Tevanian and Bertrand Serlet (for the software part), who were present when Apple rocked. Or a combination of that old blood and some new blood.
Well yeah, they obviously need the room or they wouldn't have built it. But don't tell me that stopped development, have they been sitting in parking lots?
Either that or the return of some really good "old" blood like Avie Tevanian and Bertrand Serlet (for the software part), who were present when Apple rocked. Or a combination of that old blood and some new blood.
I miss the AHIG mastermind Bruce Tognazzini, we could use some of his genius to bring order to the UX mess of late.