That's because it's the Luke Skywalker of computers.
Yeah. Stuff...like proton torpedos. We all remember what happened when the Boss's kid drop 2 proton torpedoes in the exhaust port of the Deathstar.😅
Yep - modularity doesn't necessarily mean upgrades in the future. On 99% of laptops, you can't upgrade the CPU at a later date.
I’ll have to check, but that could have been around the time that the majority of folks interested in Macs slowed buying desktops of any kind. (Checked: The mini was introduced in 2005 and laptops have been consistently outselling desktops since I around 2006.) So, a lot of folks that bought mini’s or that would have bought mini’s likely saw some mobile system that had limitations, BUT could be with them wherever they happened to be, and went for that mobile system. So, Apple would have been focusing more on improving the mobile systems most were buying. And, if the mini as a percentage of those desktop sales were a small percent, I could see Apple putting focus on the iMac instead. There were many reasons to not do anything with the mini.
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They need a new iMac. However I think the Mini and Air are great products if you are 100% in to the Mac ecosystem. Thankfully they continue to offer an Intel Mini. Unfortunately I run Parallels and unless they figure something out with Windows, my days of Mac exclusivity are over.
My only frustration with the first party apps is I can’t watch downloaded movies or tv shows from the TV app if it’s been downloaded for a few days. I have tested this on 4 different macs! It’s a sad time when iTunes for Windows runs better!I don't know about renaissance. They're at the exact inversion of where they were before, when people wanted Apple for the software and put up with mediocre hardware performance.
There are just so many bugs. And the UI has gone from great to pretty bad, IMO. So many crappy first party apps that should be an embarrassment to them.
It's difficult to understand how a company as large as Apple ships some of the built-in apps they do when some 1-person indie developers ship higher quality apps.
My latest pet peeve is things not working and just having no error message whatsoever.
If Apple notes can't sync because Apple's server is down, Apple Notes (the app) just crashes as it tries to sync. No error message.
And I'll keep repeating it. This has never been fixed:
Image Capture not seeing photos on iPhone
Plugging in phone via cable. Image Capture launches and can see the device, but no images or videos show up in the list. It was working when I was running the Public Beta, but now running the general release of 10.14.0 it's no longer working properly (this is the first time I've connected the...forums.macrumors.com
Apple used to the iLife platform, the iSync platform, where devices from so many manufacturers worked beautifully with the Mac.
And now look at the lengths people go to, including me, to get an Apple iPhone to connect correctly to an Apple Mac.
I remember the first Intel Mac ad. It said something about imagine what an Intel chip could do in a Mac.
Well, they've now got even better hardware (although the notch . . . lack of USB A in the laptops), but the software quality just isn't good. Imagine what Apple Silicon could do if they cared about software quality as much as their chips.
Yeah, I don't get how some of the software is so bad, except that I wonder if a lot of the original team from NeXT is retired or has left by now. Or that they famously move on from one thing and work on something else. Design-wise, it really seems like they are trying to make all the OSes more similar, despite them saying otherwise, with the new side bars in macOS being very similar in app layout to iPadOS. But that aside, the bugs and lack of error messages to even let you know there is a bug, instead things just don't work and you have to figure out why. If you look at that link I posted about Image Capture, it seems like Apple users have collectively put in hundreds if not thousands of hours trying to fix bugs in the most profitable computing systems (iPhone and Mac) trying every trick possible to make it work, and I wonder if Apple has spent any time on it at all. I would imagine whatever is wrong is a very easy fix on their end. It's the most basic functionality: taking photos/videos off a camera (iPhone) onto a computer, something Apple had mastered well over two decades ago. And now for so many people it's impossible between two Apple products, with no error message.
I have to agree. It seems Apple is attempting to turn the Macs into iPhones. Now there are soooooo many bugs, freezes, poor OS upgrades, software, the list is endless.
probably a good move as it would’ve lasted till now! i was using my 2015 air until the 2021 pro’s launched. glad i held onto apple while they figured out the mess they caused
