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iPhone Serves as Gateway to iPad and Apple Watch Sales, but Mac, Apple TV, and HomePod Lag Behind
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One thing I forgot to mention: How about a web browser for the Apple TV so I can use the thing in Hotel rooms. Other streaming services have it, yet Apple TV is so limiting because they don't have one.
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I wish MacOS wouldn't make software written for it obsolete every 5 years.
It's like you have the choice between a ****** OS that can run almost everything or a pretty cool OS that is quite limited with what it can run. I feel like I should just go 100% onboard with Linux at this stage.
It's like you have the choice between a ****** OS that can run almost everything or a pretty cool OS that is quite limited with what it can run. I feel like I should just go 100% onboard with Linux at this stage.
OMG MacOS 10.0 was a train wreck, it eventually got better as the years went by.
Does your Apple TV app on your TV have HomeKit support, spacial audio, photo & music sharing from your computer?
- my home isn't "smartified", no need for homekit,
- spatial audio - that i can't use (not even on my ios devices), because my airpods pro have gone bad,
- photo & music sharing i can do because of airplay2 support on my tv, but i mostly stream music from my ipad to my bt-speakers (music-app has a better ui on the ipad).
The HomePod is less attractive to many due to the fact it doesn’t link to third party streaming services. Macs are and always have been quite niche and personally I couldn’t use one in my job. Apple TV is over double the cost of the similar competitive products on the market like Amazon Fire Cubes and Sticks. Not sure why lacklustre sales is serving as a shock here?
I think sales of iPads always seem less due to the fact they are the type of device that is kept for 4-5 years by a lot of people. iPhones are perhaps the one product Apple sell that has an average rotation of 2-3 years and historically has always sold exceptionally well. I suppose it boils down to the fact you can have a mix of Apple and other manufacturers tech in your home and achieve the same experience.
I think sales of iPads always seem less due to the fact they are the type of device that is kept for 4-5 years by a lot of people. iPhones are perhaps the one product Apple sell that has an average rotation of 2-3 years and historically has always sold exceptionally well. I suppose it boils down to the fact you can have a mix of Apple and other manufacturers tech in your home and achieve the same experience.
They should just make an ‘AirPlay’ stick. Literally every device they offer with audio or video can stream wirelessly.
This is the most important comment here and nobody engaged with it. Everyone else takes the conclusions presented as correct despite the study providing no evidence or context to the numbers to justify the conclusions. The study is the start of an analysis, but left out the necessary hard work.
It needs reference to a control sample and data.
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It's incredibly annoying.
My 2009 Mac Pro has been supported up to Mojave - which is fine. Except Apple doesn't make public how long they will support the operating system with security updates, and they break iCloud syncing of reminders/notes and other with updates to iOS. The latter I can kind of understand, but not the former. If you actually say you care about the ****ing environment, tell users of older hardware and OS's how long you will support the OS. That machine is running perfectly still, I'm not going to go buy a new machine.
With a great big push from the CSAM debacle I wiped macOS and installed Manjaro on the Mac Pro. Manjaro picked up drivers immediately without issue and is running great. My only trouble is installing rEFInd/Plus to get a boot loader again, and that I'm not sure I like GNOME 40.
Let me tell ya, macOS is great. But the freedom and lack of worry I have with Linux is better.
I was more referring to how they keep making all our software obsolete with their processor changes they do every 10-15 years, how they dropped support for intel 32bit apps, how they'll eventually drop support for opengl, how I'm expecting them to retire Rosetta 2 one day.
But yeah, I 100% agree with you for how long they decide to support a computer for. I installed Monterey on my unsupported mpb 11,2 and it seemed to run fine. Not sure why they decided to drop support for it, seems totally arbitrary.
Given Apple's sub 10% market share in the PC market, this seems to indicate that iPhone owners are 3-4 times more likely to own a Mac, which I would say is pretty good.