Real shame about this, which seems to be another issue added to Apple's growing list of half-assed product updates. It's saddening because you can feel they're getting complacent. In an ideal world they'd give every product the best possible update so that people feel the full benefit of the 'flawless Apple experience' that they can't stop talking about.
I'm really losing a lot of love with Apple recently.
The problem is that I have no understanding for their smug "only Apple" attitude when they half-ass things where they can't say "technology isn't ready yet, please wait a year", because their own products prove that wrong.
e.g. Touch ID on iPhone one year earlier, only to sell it as added value to the successor model.
It's a constant thing now, too.
They seem to care zero about parity anymore.
iPhone 6 vs iPad Air 2 for example: One has 2GB of RAM, the other doesn't. One has NFC-enabled with antenna, one doesn't.
One could argue about the significance of these, but it's a great example of deliberate feature omissions to boost future models.
Like it's the second last generation to arrive and there are no more features beyond what's next year.
Until next year of course, same game again.
And again, and again, ...
Apple, there will always be things I won't get when I buy now instead of one year later, but when you tease people with what you prove yourself is easily possible already with other products, some even under stronger technical difficulties, then you just add frustration to the educated buyer, but I see you're not too interested in the educated buyer it seems.
And I don't even mean the spec whores, who want the quad-core just to have the quad-core when your dual-core is a better performer than the quad-cores of others (I'm talking iPhone here, Mac Mini is another story entirely).
I'm talking 2GB of RAM, I'm talking Touch ID, etc...
Vertical integration has always been your core strength and you're mistreating that traditional strength and don't see how others are creating their own ecosystems that are getting stronger in integration, even if they still might not have caught up quite yet, but don't act like it's not happening.
Then enter folks like Google even letting other hardware play in their ecosystem much better.
You can totally be a "Google guy" and get a very strong Google experience on iOS.
You're closed, you have always been, that's okay, but in return you have to make sure you keep it as comfortable and warm as possible.
You do not want frustration with customers who know they virtually lock themselves in for a better experience and then weaken that experience.
Glassed Silver:mac
