The HomePod is an accessory product, not a main core product like the iPhone iPad. Apple typically doesn’t refresh their accessory products like the HomePod on an annual basis. It probably would make more sense if that product is updated like every 18 months or so, given there probably isn’t monumental changes that they would need to manufacture a new HomePod every year. Cost v.s. Benefit.
That was a totally different Apple that you’re referring to back then. You’re not taking into account, the iPhone might have four different models, but that’s four different price ranges and sizes, that gives consumers more options. More options—> create larger sales for Apple. Pretty standard logic for Apple and it seems to be working.
It's all in the pronunciation. The first one is FOURteen and the second one is fourTEEN.
And to add to that mess, we have the M-series chips being shared between the laptops and the tablets...like how does the iPad benefit from the M1 chip? Seriously? iPadOS is the bottleneck in the iPad Pro with the M1 chip.
Maybe this flat one is the ‘rugged’ one?
I don't think the iPad OS is the bottleneck, the problem is actually the lack of more pro app.
I think it is evident that when Apple announced Xcode Cloud at WWDC last year, it became evident which direction they are heading with Xcode.
Yep, and I also remember how he presided over adding a bunch of new products over the following years.
It's been almost 4 months since I pre-ordered the M1 Max 14" 64GB. Nowhere to be found in stock, and the delivery estimate was 6-8 weeks.With M1 Pro/M1 Max production issues, I'm not expecting any customer deliveries until Late July/Sept. Unless you got your order within the first 5 mins, have fun waiting months. There are still buyers who have been waiting 4 months for their computers. Now add 4 additional products with the same chip
No they don’t always release Macs in the fall I understand that, but the macs left to be updated to Apple silicon are all high end pro devices, and Apple has always stuck with more fun consumer friendly devices for the spring as of the past few years (the most pro they have given us in the spring is the iPad Pro as of recent years).Apple doesn’t release Macs only in the fall. WWDC is focused on the 5 OS’s mainly for developers, occasionally they announce specific hardware in the past but not recently. All the predictions about products in the last 2 years didn’t happen. Apple has switched to various events during spring and fall during this transition. Phones are always sept as you listed.
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Spot on!
Developing in the cloud sounds like a nightmare to me. The last thing I want is my code held hostage by some faceless corporation.
My biggest complaint is Monterey 12.0 which shipped on my M1 MacBook Pro. I bought a maxed out one (other than storage) for $4k and can't plug it into an external display without it kernel panicking during sleep/wake from sleep. 12.1 made it better but didn't resolve it. Apple support useless, I spend hours with each Senior Advisor for them to just close my case blaming Samsung (monitor manufacturer) and saying they can help me with this (yeah right!). The same kernel panic bug has existed with many USB-c devices including hard drives and docks since February 2021 with Big Sur. Even though this was a factory install of Monterey one user with same issue recommended wiping the OS manually and I have yet to do that. But between that and apps crashing constantly on my phone, the stupid focus features to clean up the annoying billion notifications features introduced previously, I am just so tired of crappy software. Make it stable as a baseline, THEN add all this garbage for the average users that need new OS features every year or they won't pull their attention away from tik tok long enough to buy a computer
We are well past the middle mark already…
