People ask for all sorts of things all the time. We have people asking for macOS in iPads even. Doesn't mean Apple has to listen to all of them, nor is Apple obligated to meet all these demands simultaneously. The features will come when they are ready on Apple's terms, no sooner, no later.
Who is asking for OS X on iPad? What, you really want to make the argument that we're just so in love with OS X, that we want it to replace the OS the propelled Apple to the top of the industry? Playing devil's advocate is overrated.
As for features people
actually wanted, like wireless charging, why are Apple's terms so much later than everyone else's. The Palm Pre had this.
The Palm freakin' Pre. Sorry, people aren't stupid enough to buy Apple's "we removed the headphone jack because we're moving into a wireless world" BS when they leave out the main wireless feature that's been around for half a decade.
Take for example the part about more storage in smartphones. There was nothing stopping people from buying the 64gb or 128gb models.
Except cost? Maybe people don't like paying an extra $100-$200 for something that is already there in competing devices? Maybe not everyone has $300-$400 to slap down on top of a contract?
You can't see it this way.
Why not? Because it bothers you? Too bad, it's not just how I see it -
that's how it is.
Compare the iPhone 7 to the 6S+
Let's do that. What did we get in the new iPhone 7?
Base 32GB, which is the
bare minimum of what is even remotely acceptable for a modern device.
Water resistance? Water proofing would be better, but it's a good step in the right direction.
What else? What is a noticeable, quality-of-life feature the iPhone 7 adds? What can a consumer tell by using the two devices side-by-side? Am I going to notice the wider gamut of reds or my apps starting up a tenth of a second faster? No, I won't. That adds nothing for me or anyone else. And again, horsepower shouldn't even be mentioned when they are so far behind the competition.
Yes, the headphone jack being removed is stupid, and no, it's not being exaggerated. It was a decision motivated purely by the desire to sell EarPods, which they've screwed up releasing anyway. I hate phrases like anti-consumer because people abuse them without understanding what they mean, but this is one time where it actually applies. You'd better own Apple stock if you're defending that nonsense.
Same with the Macbook Pro. Everything has been improved across the board, but people can only gripe about having to purchase a few dongles and the lack of a 32gb option which most people will never miss.
So what has changed? How is the current MBP any worse than the previous generation for the work you do? It's not as though previous models had a 32gb model available.
Do you understand that this is a $3000 computer? Have you ever actually spent that much on a computer? Do you know how much power you can get for $3000 elsewhere, even in the laptop space? Have you ever run a iPhone 7+ simulator on your computer? Do you know how well it runs? Do you run Photoshop, Xcode, and a few dozen Safari tabs concurrently while profiling memory on a device? Do you frequently travel with a MacBook and plug it into monitors and USB devices?
Never mind that the new MBP actually performed
worse on some graphic test metrics because it renders at a higher resolution then down samples to the actual screen. What definitive performance increases it does bring do not solve any of my problems. I don't give a **** about the stupid ****ing touch bar. That is
trash. The entire screen should be touch sensitive. At the very least
OS X and iOS should work together to allow you to use your iPhone/iPad for touchbar functionality. That would be a real feature that would have extensive value.
No, instead we got a last-gen processor, no extra RAM, not even the
option, ancient screen technology, lost all ability to connect anything at all to the computer without an adapter
including the iPhone, and got what? The stupid touchbar that very very few developers will even support, and we got all that with a price increase. You want us to thank Apple for that? You go buy it.
I guess for me, it helps that I have been slowly but surely migrating towards an ipad-centric workflow since 2012. Apple hasn't let me down in this regard. iOS 8 brought peer-to-peer airplay to the Apple TV, while the iPad Pro brings split-screen and the Apple Pencil support. As a teacher, these tools have helped me immensely in my daily lesson delivery. I don't feel pressured to upgrade my Macs (2012 MBA, 2011 iMac) anytime soon as I actually been using them less and less. My next Mac might actually be another iPad Pro, if this trend continues.
Okay, well there it is. You do only the most basic computer work, so why would you care or even understand everyone else's gripe? The answer is of course that you don't. I'm happy for you being able to get away with transferring a few files and sketching whatever on the screen, but guess what?
I'm the guy who writes the software that lets you work on an iPad. To do my job efficiently, I need certain things. I'd like an Xcode that isn't constantly ****ing crashing. I'd like to carry as few peripherals with me as possible, because I need to connect things to do my job. I'd like more memory. I'd like
expandable storage because unbelievably, some professionals use more than 512GB of disk space. I'd like for the keyboard not to suck, and I'd like to be able to accurately simulate the devices I'm writing for so that I don't need to have four different iPads and five different iPhones on hand. I haven't dealt with a product line this disconnected and rife with ******** since I was a Blackberry programmer. You and Apple had better start listening to people like me, or things are going to start getting a lot less "magical".