Maybe not the future, but even at 10% of sales Macs still represent a lot of money. And iPhones sales are slowing. Not sure how that is "absolutely killing it."
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Maybe not the future, but even at 10% of sales Macs still represent a lot of money. And iPhones sales are slowing. Not sure how that is "absolutely killing it."
One does not get product development ideas from random strangers on Internet forums.
Though I am starting to notice a trend with Macrumours. If the critics hate on something here, you know it’s going to sell.
That’s how bad their track record is, and that’s how little they understand Apple.
Funny, for the most part I’d agree with you yet ....
Mac mini 2018:
The forums asked for PCIe storage more storage capacity, more ram and TB3 that’s exactly what Apple created.
Mac Pro:
Modularity,
Expansion,
Modern powerful video cards - top of the line (more specific to NVIDIA’s but Apple knocked that out of the park)
A return to expansion of the G5/OG Mac Pro and that’s exactly what Apple did!!
iPad : a more PC like OS with mouse support and USB storage support; specifically to import photos into an app preferred NOT into “photos” which mixed up personal vs work and had then to be manually separated or imported into an app again. Apple made it happen. The plethora of threads started with the hate towards a young actress in a commercial saying “what’s a computer?” Was quite palatable!
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Lmao!
Chief of macOS:
- last year allowed SUDO to have no password in the kernel! Some gold standard to follow by the team led by him. Took over a week to resolve that!!
- iOS WWDC 2017; doesn’t inform others NOT to look at iPhone X so he doesn’t look like a fool on stage. He’s in charge of iOS so this should’ve been the first thought to have mitigated. Then again all Apple staff in setup and presentation should’ve knew about the potential and worked to mitigate the potential issue before hand.
Allowed battery throttling or lead the team that implemented it without full end user disclosure!!
These are NOT mistakes by proper leadership of an entire company. Should have never happened.
Bertrand never released OSX with SUDO not having a password!!
Besides leading various teams and business aspects of various personalities is beyond just having great stage presence with comedy, big hair, and an old man gimo walk straight out of Crenshaw mafia lol.
iPadOS is an extremely innovative foundation and is likely very under-appreciated/under-conceived. While it's a tempting angle, I do not see this as segmentation or divergence of what was to eventually become a singular, multi-platform OS. I had long thought that iOS would become the predominant, multi-device OS—and I do still believe that we will see a day where that comes true once we shift exclusively to multi-dimensional augmented interfaces. However, in the present moment, I see this as Apple embracing the fact that larger devices are much more than bigger displays. Each category holds nuanced UI complexities that will continue to share fewer and fewer interface components. To me, iPadOS is Apple doubling down on the evolution of the iPad.
Steve had such an allure and magic about him. He always kept the child-like excitement and novelty of technological evolution alive. I feel so fortunate to have been present at the last WWDC he attended, and may we honor his spirit by learning from his approach. (While he wasn't a perfect person—whatever that is on a planet like this—but he was an example of how a human being could execute upon one's own vision and self-confidence without anyone else's permission.) I remember Steve holding the iPad up so proudly on stage as if he were showing off God's greatest gift, and I felt like I was in the room. The iPad was a revolution of form, and I could feel how excited he was about the future of the device category. Even back then, this wasn't a bigger iPhone to him. I feel that Apple is still executing on that sentiment.
I remember the first time using the gargantuan Google-powered maps on the device. I had conceived the iPad coming into existence immediately after the first generation iPhone that I bought in the middle of the night at the Fifth Avenue store in New York City. (I thought it would be called the iSlate though, and MacRumors was able to give us a confirmation on the name a day or so early based on a packaging rumor.) When the device was released, it was like a dream come true. The day I got mine, I could not set it down. I thought, "Wow, this will be what will eventually replace the notebook whenever we figure out how to uniquely integrate this into our lives."
Touch screen technology is still moving along, albeit slower than I would like. What I'd really love to see is Apple opening up a portable interface standard or custom display manufacturing so that retailers would be able to integrate Multi-Touch everywhere. This would represent a huge shift, but I feel that this type of standardization will become very necessary at some point as community computing and autonomous vehicle road infrastructure experience their evolutions.
Steve had such an allure and magic about him. He always kept the child-like excitement and novelty of technological evolution alive. I feel so fortunate to have been present at the last WWDC he attended, and may we honor his spirit by learning from his approach. (While he wasn't a perfect person—whatever that is on a planet like this—but he was an example of how a human being could execute upon one's own vision and self-confidence without anyone else's permission.) I remember Steve holding the iPad up so proudly on stage as if he were showing off God's greatest gift, and I felt like I was in the room. The iPad was a revolution of form, and I could feel how excited he was about the future of the device category. Even back then, this wasn't a bigger iPhone to him. I feel that Apple is still executing on that sentiment.
I remember the first time using the gargantuan Google-powered maps on the device. I had conceived the iPad coming into existence immediately after the first generation iPhone that I bought in the middle of the night at the Fifth Avenue store in New York City. (I thought it would be called the iSlate though, and MacRumors was able to give us a confirmation on the name a day or so early based on a packaging rumor.) When the device was released, it was like a dream come true. The day I got mine, I could not set it down. I thought, "Wow, this will be what will eventually replace the notebook whenever we figure out how to uniquely integrate this into our lives."
Touch screen technology is still moving along, albeit slower than I would like. What I'd really love to see is Apple opening up a portable interface standard or custom display manufacturing so that retailers would be able to integrate Multi-Touch everywhere. This would represent a huge shift, but I feel that this type of standardization will become very necessary at some point as community computing and autonomous vehicle road infrastructure experience their evolutions.
Sure it is. It's just not part of any formal study or survey. You just don’t want to accept it. Considering your signature, I’m not surprised.
Cook is and has done a great job, evidenced by the financials and size of Apple. You don’t have any data to support your statement besides meaningless anecdotal stories.
Sounds like a big chuck of most MacRumors forum posters -"I don't use it that way, so no one needs to."
Easy. 10 foot = 120 inches, so like 4 Pro Displays diagonally. 16 displays in total.
I wanted to buy a new iPad Pro when they came out. At the same time I had been given a usb Containing a video of a family wedding that I wanted to save on iCloud.
I previously had a MacBook that was now broken and the only access to a device I had that would work was a windows pc. Fine I thought, I will upload the video to iCloud through the windows machine. This wouldn’t work, there is a limit to the web browser version of iCloud to the file size you can upload and the video was too large. The only easy way to do it was to buy a MacBook.
I ended up buying an iPad Pro and getting it to work thorough these steps;
- saved the file on the windows machine
- uploaded the file to a file sharing app
- downloaded an app on the iPad to allow me to download said file
- saved thenfile into the files app on my iPad
This all took a few days of research and about 6 hours of time to do. If the iPad could just open usb files it would have taken a few minutes. This is a step forward in my book.
Apple almost lost the sale of an iPad on this one thing and for a lot of people they wouldn’t have known how to do what I did. For a company that has a big reputation on the saying “it just works” Apple certainly has its stumbling points to do this. They haven’t so much as gone back to the 90’s as caught up.
I previously had a MacBook that was now broken and the only access to a device I had that would work was a windows pc. Fine I thought, I will upload the video to iCloud through the windows machine. This wouldn’t work, there is a limit to the web browser version of iCloud to the file size you can upload and the video was too large. The only easy way to do it was to buy a MacBook.
I ended up buying an iPad Pro and getting it to work thorough these steps;
- saved the file on the windows machine
- uploaded the file to a file sharing app
- downloaded an app on the iPad to allow me to download said file
- saved thenfile into the files app on my iPad
This all took a few days of research and about 6 hours of time to do. If the iPad could just open usb files it would have taken a few minutes. This is a step forward in my book.
Apple almost lost the sale of an iPad on this one thing and for a lot of people they wouldn’t have known how to do what I did. For a company that has a big reputation on the saying “it just works” Apple certainly has its stumbling points to do this. They haven’t so much as gone back to the 90’s as caught up.
So...he's using airdrop with devices that don't support that I guess..Seriously..Great guy, but this attitude is so stupid.
People saying it is an obvious joke, sure, maybe. Still absolutely tone-deaf thing to say. Like Phil schiller saying that using a 5 year old pc is sad..If everything worked like Apple intended, great. But the world is very different outside of cupertino sketchbooks. Makes you wonder how they really think about their customers.
People saying it is an obvious joke, sure, maybe. Still absolutely tone-deaf thing to say. Like Phil schiller saying that using a 5 year old pc is sad..If everything worked like Apple intended, great. But the world is very different outside of cupertino sketchbooks. Makes you wonder how they really think about their customers.
You don’t know business very well. It isn’t just about maximizing profits in the short term. It's about maximizing profits while also delivering value, great support to your customers and keeping your reputation intact for future growth and sustainability.
Tim Apple Crook has simply been riding off of Apple's great past reputation that Steve Jobs worked so hard to establish. His days are numbered if he keeps doing what he has been doing.
We are going to have to agree to disagree, but everything I have seen Apple done so far points to them doing precisely just that. Not only is Apple doing a marvellous job of maximising profits right now (via iPhone sales), but it is also setting the foundation for an eventual pivot into wearables. We already have the Apple Watch and AirPods, and I expect Apple to soon release their own AR glasses.
Meanwhile, Apple is also rounding out their ecosystem, with music, video, arcade, news and even their own credit card.
The iPad is shaping up nicely as the general purpose computer for the masses.
And personally, I am not too worried about the state of the Mac line, because to me, the Mac does not represent the future at Apple. I mean, I guess it's great that Apple went to all the trouble to release a new Mac Pro and I suppose that will satiate the Mac enthusiasts for a while (Marco Arment just wrote a very glowing blog post in praise of this), but it really has little in common with mobile and wearables.
Apple will be just fine. You will see.
No, the easy way to do it would be to install iCloud for Windows on that PC and transfer it that way.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204283
That being said, I agree iOS and the iPad have always been gimped when it comes to getting work done in the way we do it today. It's one of the things that drove me to a Windows machine and then a Surface Pro. It's not perfect but 100x the machine the iPad was and even is today.
Yes, I do. Business is all about results. Cook has delivered, better than Jobs even. Services, silicon, wearables, tremendous iPhone growth, record everything are all a result of Cook. Tim Cook is a genius and Jobs knew that. That’s why Jobs handed the reigns to Cook.
You don’t know the numbers. Cook has a job because he’s doing well. He stops performing and the shareholders will speak loudly.
Business isn’t as simple as just “riding on reputation.” Apple is in an ultra competitive business that Tim Cook has navigated brilliantly.
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iPhone isn’t the future of Apple either. iPhone has already done close to $1 TRILLION in sales. Of course it’s slowing, but people aren’t switching away from iPhone. They just don’t upgrade it quite as often, but they buy services, wearables, and will buy another iPhone eventually.
It’s why the active device count keeps rising, now over 1.4B.
Apple IS killing it and is the most profitable company in the world. Did you know Apple made $60B in profit in 2018? Google was second and made $23B.
No you're right dude. Because you've never seen a primarily iOS/macOS user take a dump on Windows and Android, it must mean you're 100% correct. How dare I share my experiences, which according to you, are wrong.
A CEO with a supply chain background has never been more valuable to Apple.
In hindsight, it makes perfect sense for Apple’s CEO to have been someone who has moved up the ranks via operations. You need a functional supply chain to turn the design team’s ideas into tangle products which can be mass-produced at scale.
What’s funnier is that the very factor which makes Tim Cook the ideal CEO for Apple is the very aspect he is being criticised for.
And truthfully, this cloud push is going to start backfiring in a big way, for a lot of people and situations. Already, you see a big backlash about products like the Ring doorbell, because it keeps uploading your video content to Amazon, who can then turn it over to law enforcement without you even getting a say-so. Or alternately, they might use new AI tools to data mine all of that content for who knows what outcome? Point is, you're the one paying for the equipment that does the video recording. But all this 21st. century "magic" where they make you forget about responsibility for storing the results mean you lose control over your own content.
Call my external hard drive a "1990's relic" if you like. But when you need to restore your data backup someday and your broadband connection is making it take DAYS to complete, or worse yet? The cloud hosting service goes out of business and you lose all your backups they held for you? That "relic" sure does start looking like the more optimal tool.
Call my external hard drive a "1990's relic" if you like. But when you need to restore your data backup someday and your broadband connection is making it take DAYS to complete, or worse yet? The cloud hosting service goes out of business and you lose all your backups they held for you? That "relic" sure does start looking like the more optimal tool.
You mean Craig? I don't think he's a joke, just sadly out of touch with reality.
On top of my head from the keynote:
Swiping keyboard
Dark mode
External USB stick support
Home screen widgets (iPad OS only, for some unknown reason)
Multitasking changes
Many more features available on android for years still missing, but they'll get there eventually I guess.
I didnt hear about that! My god that is quite the security compromise. Security and not dealing with viruses, mallware, and hackers for over 15 years now is one of the reasons I am still an Apple user. Going back to windows with all its security compromises just seems like a chore.
But if Apple are going to keep dropping the ball on security then I see little reason to pay top dollar for a Mac.
Of course not. Apple choices never hurts the company's income, they always make sure of that.
But I'm not a shareholder, so as a user I'm not that fond of their choices.
I see it this way.
Apple is a company which makes products that people want to buy.
And for Apple to be successful as they are, there has to be tons of people willing to buy what Apple is selling. You might not necessarily like Apple’s product roadmap right now, but that doesn’t mean others don’t like it either.
I agree with you. All other things equal, I would rather have features like swipe or dark mode earlier than later. But these don’t exist in a vacuum. The reason why they are being released now and not earlier is likely that Apple has been busy working on other features and products at the time (eg: pushed back in favour is ios 12 and its focus on performance). Which their user base seem to have appreciated as much.
So I guess my point is that Apple’s decisions don’t seem so wrong when viewed in totality and in hindsight, though it might be easy to criticise each individual decision in a vacuum.