I love Apple products and have been using them since I was at college in '89 but I'm in a real bind! It's getting to the point where they are just pricing me out the market. I make a reasonably good salary, I don't have any kids so have no outgoings to consider from that respect and would say I have a pretty good disposable income compared to those with children.
I have spent a small fortune over the years on Apple products and probably owned a good 90% of the stuff they have brought out but I have concluded that I can no longer sustain at the current price levels. I understand that prices go up over the years but in the last few years, it's no longer about inflation just significant price increases by Apple themselves.
The MacBook Pro 15" for example, which is always my main machine, now costs £2700 (512GB is non negotiable, 256GB just doesn't cut it in this day and age)...we're knocking on the £3K mark and that's a huge amount of cash.
Sigh....I have to agree with many others that I think Apple is now getting greedy and I really do believe that it's going to come back and bite them hard in the next few years.
That sucks you won't be able to continue to buy 90% of Apples product line. #1stworldproblems.
Of note, I just bought a MBP 15, ended up just short of $4k. The 27" iMac I bought in 2011 was around $3.5k, and the MBP I bought in 2006 was right over or right under $3k, can't remember. So like a $600-$800 increase in cost over the last 12 years.
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I’m mostly happy with the switch to USB-C on the new iPad - that means I’d probably be in the market for a new pencil anyway seeing as there is no longer a lightning port to charge the new pencil. And I genuinely do not want any more adaptors.
The price increase does sting...
I love the charging process for the new pencil... but I prefer the feel of the Apple Pencil 1.
What I’d REALLY love now is a non-glass, matte screen protector to create a paper-like texture while using the pencil.
https://paperlike.com
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I came to comment the same thing. If loyalty is important this is a bad move. Backward compatibility for what is basically a new product is unforgivable. If I upgrade I won’t be getting a pencil on principle and I won’t be upgrading this year because of this. Until I found this out I was planning to upgrade for Christmas. #AppleArrogance
You'll show Apple!
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Exactly, there's no reason to prevent the old Pencil from working with the new iPads.
Yeah, but Apple has offered backward compatible adapters for plenty of other transitions. Indeed, the Gen 1 Pencil came with an adapter to charge the pencil on regular Lightning cable. So the adapter is not a problem for anyone already using an old Pencil. And there's no reason why Pairing has to work any differently over the Port. The software was already in place to permit it on the old iPad, so just leave it in place as an alternate means of pairing. And there's no need to provide instructions of what to do if software doesn't receive an instruction like a double tap. It's not like the double-tap is the only way to activate something -- if anything the double tap is an addition to supporting the original base behavior. And it wouldn't be the first time Apple had to address deficiencies in older hardware with their operating system. iOS literally has to deal with that on every single device it runs on.
Seriously, the only reason to limit compatibility is to sell new Pencils.
Likewise, there's really no reason why the New Pencil couldn't be backward compatible as well, though it's understandable why they wouldn't want to support that considering the changes.
No one likes spending more but they made the right call with the separation. The new pencil is light years better than the old one. I'll bet usage goes through the roof. It is always there and always charged. If you have a 1st gen pencil, do yourself a favor and give it and your old iPad to the kids! You deserve it!
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Combine that with the offensive degradation of the quality and usefulness of their products. The asinine emoji bar, the soldered-in drives and RAM (in glued-together computers), the POS keyboards that don't just suck from their lack of travel but cease to function altogether, the offensive and inexcusable removal of headphone jacks from media-centric devices, the embarrassing refrain of "thinner" which translates to "We're out of ideas, so we're deleting space we should be using for battery..." It goes on and on.
Jony Ive should be fired. This guy is a pompous hack with no ideas for improvement. He's the Trump of product design: With no ideas of his own, he seeks to destroy the achievements of his predecessors.
Wow, this one has me rolling. Asinine emoji bar? I know you aren't hating on my Touch Bar lol. It is one of those things people that don't have one, love to hate. I am looking at it right now, and it baffles me that people don't like it. I wouldn't want the regular keys to be touch (ok all keys are touch I suppose, but you get it), but the F Keys are perfect candidates. I love predictive typing, short cuts are great, time lines are nice, but I don't use those outside of play. Using it is like visiting the future! My keyboard is telling me what to do! Sure our phones have done it for years, but it can't be bad to have more options. MBP keyboard is great. Now the Magic Wireless Keyboard that is a piece of junk! "Offensive and inexcusable" removal of headphone jacks! Wow, offensive!
We have to get Tim and Jony out of there. They are doing a terrible job, said none of their investors.
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LOL I got a kick out of this. Tim Cook is the John Scully of modern Apple. He has made it clear that quarterly earnings is what apple is interested in at the expense of the user.
Did Scully help make Apple a trillion dollar company? I can't remember.
