The iPhone will help the Apple brand. News sites have written about other products for years, I say let them get excited about Apple's new thing for now. Lastly, if Apple squeezed a new hot one of each product every few mounths then the quality would suffer and they would start to look more and more like HP and Dell.
You might have the means to want a scenario where Apple gives you buyers remose by comming out with a completely new and better version of what you bought just a few months ago but I would abandon Apple if they started to.
New and improved every 1-2 years with minor speed bumps along the way is what I prefer. Besides the rumour sites are often wrong so who cares if they are not filling your heads with false rumours, maybe there just isn't anything new to report now.
Apple used to do that.... they would intro a new product or update and 6-7 months down the road there would be an update. With Intel... the processors are getting updates every 4 months or less so Apple can keep up with their previouse roadmap... but not every 1-2 years with a
minor speed bump that is a bit over the top. Technology just moves faster than that... and my minor... do you mean that .06Ghz bump we just got? Most users would be upset with Apple if they waited 18months for a speed bump of .06GHz and a few minor improvements.
i had a blackberry through AT&T for a week. Then my first bill showed up for $140 and I said no way in HELL. So I returned the phone.
Much as I'm not a fan of sprint, I'm doing a lot better with them with a Motorola Q (well, soon to be, right now I have a Treo 700WX) and a $34/mo plan for 500 min and unlimited data/unlimited text. The same thing AT&T was charging me $97/mo for.
For whomever said this, the 755p and the 680 aren't the same phone...same housing, but the 755 has much mroe powerful guts and some better features.
Yeah... I have been reading the specs and it does seem to be a bit more improved. Can't wait to get my hands on the red one... may just get a Red Nano to go with it.
I am ditching my Verizon service that I have only had for about 7 months to get an iPhone on launch day - so is my brother, his wife, my sister-in-law, and one of my best friends... we are all leaving our current providers - without any second thoughts, I might add. This is just out of the people that I can think of immediately. I can guarantee you that there will be thousands of others like myself doing the exact same thing.
I just don't see how anyone could deal with the cancellation fees? That is what the real problem is for me... the cancellation fees, and the new contract deposit. I think Cingular asked me for $250 for a new contract and I flipped them the bird and when with Sprint who asked me for $150.
I meant the Mac Pro, not the iMac or Mac Mini. The Mac Pro was updated, it received 8-core.
The MBP update was awesome, what else could you possible want? The MB update was OK, it is still very up-to-date compared to the majority of the laptops out there.
Any computer is prone to defects, the reason it seems that "all" the new MBP have that yellowish tint is because all the people with problems come to the forums, the ones that have perfect MBP won't come to the forums.
The 8Core MacPro was no where near an update... welcomed by some... hated by many... but either way it wasn't an update. There is a poster named Multimedia over in the MacPro/PowerMac forums who could tell you his real opinion about the Octo MacPro.
I understand that any hardware is prone to defects, but if I waited 6 or more months for an updated MacBook Pro... and then Apple releases this current Santa Rosa MBP... I would have asked myself what the heck I waited 6 months for. I was kind of expecting some new BTO options, Blue-Ray, HD-DVD, integrated 3G, much faster CPUs, better battery life, more USB ports or one extra FW400, maybe a slightly new design to get rid of that annoying latch or an easier way to replace the HDD. I was on the verge of selling my 6 month old MBP and upgrading to a 17" since I see myself using my laptop for more video editing instead of my tower (yuck!) but with these current models I will wait another year or so and suffer some more.
Boy common sense isn't so "common" nowadays.
The iPhone is a NEW product launch. We don't know how it's going to function fully. It's exciting ...you don't get to see groundbreaking product launches every year. That is why the iPhone garners so much respect.
Do you really think the world is waiting with baited breath for another Mac mini refresh?
Mac Pro's aren't going to significantly be upgraded until 45nm Penryn in Q3 at the earlierst
Macbook's aren't getting Santa Rosa...MBP are on Santa Rosa. LED screens look different than Flourescent..duh different light source.
Mac mini may be dead it's hard to say.
Frankly I want to see the Apple iPhone meet expectations and exceed them. I'm not an Apple stockholder but if I was I'd love every bit of good news about the iPhone. Even as a non stock holder I love good news because a healthy Apple means a healthy Mac platform.
Ranting about the news coverage is a bit silly. Ranting about upgrades to computers or rather the lack of info is absurd. Apple is locked to Intel platform releases now. Apple just can't pull out the white rabbit from the hat.
The appropriate thing to do is get caught up with "current" events before you try to delve into future events. IMO
Ranting about news coverage is NOT silly. I am not trying to insult you but do you watch the news? I don't care about Paris Hilton going to jail... how about my fellow American's in Iraq? How about my fellow humans suffering in Darfur? There is more important news going on other than some rich white girl doing easy time for drunk driving... just as there are more important tech news going on other than the iPhone.
One poster above shed some light about why it may be so important. Apple pulling the white rabbit from the hat is exactly what they did with the iPhone so what is your point? We know MacBook's weren't getting SR but such a paltry update after 6 months? I would get one if I were shopping for one but Apple could have done better... look at the iPhone. Flourescent lights and LEDs do not a yellowish tint near the bottom of your screen make. Yes... the world is waiting and holding its breathe and wallets for a Macintosh refresh... ask Multimedia and others claiming that the MacPro is overpriced for year old tech and 18 month old graphics cards... not to mention the consumers and pros waiting for a refresh to the iMac.
I want to see the iPhone succeed as well but it isn't the only product that Apple makes and it is far from anything groundbreaking when you compare it to the other truly groundbreaking innovations that Apple has created/debuted in a new product. And most people that aren't too concerned with the iPhone are the ones that are caught up with "current" events... remember the iPhone was debutted
6 months ago around the time the iMacs were still two months or so old... time for an update.
