For me
1. Usability no aesthetic. Before yeah, apple is small company but now they need to hired more resources on usability .
2. If the operating system not supported the ram/speed usage, just don't sell it .Don't care it was upgradable ram or soldered ram.
3. Windows don't have ability to switch services. E.g if you just do video editing, why does you need apache / mysql service in the background ? Ram usage is mac is pretty bad. Nowadays developer are to pamper with the term "If the ram not use, it worthless". ** one day facebook page use my ram till 40 GB . So everything is in swap mode. ? It crazy..
4. 4 TB in imac pro is premium 256 GB SSD ain't premium should at least a basic in 2018 .
5. If you compare y brand x brand and apple brand.. Yeah it premium brand but at least come at least premium equipment to support the brand.
1) Hmm, I have a client that runs his entire printshop on a Mac mini. He hardly cares about whether the hard drive is whatever as long as the machine overall cuts down on downtime.
2) what?
3) no offense but, I take it that English isn’t your first language. It’s difficult to understand what you’re saying.
4) pci-based SSD as a standard in any computer right now is sort of premium and not expected. However, the iMac Pro starts at 1tb SSD, not 256, if that’s what you’re talking about.
That's valid, but my experience has led to the expectation of at least 6 years. My main mac is a 2009 Macbook Pro. I just replaced my iPad 2 with a 10.5 iPad Pro. So, while I don't doubt it will last (I have no reason to) I worry about restrictions Apple places on the devices. The only reason my MacBook is still usable is because I can replace the battery, hard drive, and RAM on my own. Thank goodness macOS hasn't changed much because I am stuck on 10.11.6. There really hasn't been a core feature that has motivated me to replace my device. I shouldn't have to predict what the industry will expect of my device in a decade. I should be able to update it as needed. People like Linus, like them or not, make the general public aware of this issue. To be fair to him, he is very generous when he reviews Apple's products compared to other vendors he reviews.
[doublepost=1524669701][/doublepost]
1. This isn't occurring under US law.
2. The customer always breaks it.
3. When Apple entered the repair market, and forced all repair centers to go through them to do repairs, they became obligated to make the parts available else they are using their market dominance to control the repair industry. They are NOT the same as the regular PC industry because they modify parts to prevent them from be compatible with other PC manufacturers.
People like Linus sensationalize to an ignorant audience and frankly he pulled some serious straight up BS in his video. If he said those things about me in a video like that, I would sue him for slander. I mean seriously, so much of his video was misleading to the point that he’d say one thing while showing different on the screen. On the screen. It would say that Apple won’t service his machine if he tampered with it and break it but he should bring it in for
inspection so they can tell him what his options were. He claims that he was expecting Apple to get his Mac up in a jiffy, yet there’s no hint if anyone giving him a price estimate for the parts and labor. He claims that Apple wouldn’t/couldn’t send the parts to the Apple store but the conversation that he shows on screen has nothing to do with Apple HQ not sending parts to the Apple store at all. It was about what would happen if a third party can’t get parts after the Apple rep told him to ask a third party and
they can tell him what they can do for him. He claimed in his video that training and certs to work on the iMac Pro don’t exist and ‘Apple pro’ certification is needed to order the parts, which doesn’t sound like any Apple certification naming scheme that I’ve Ever heard of. He spends the entire video tiptoeing around the fact that his employee exposed his logicboard and PSU to electrical damage and he’ll likely have to simply buy a replacement machine because his employee, acting under his authority, screwed up. It sucks but that’s how it is.
Also, I recall reading somewhere that you can manipulate your laptop to run a newer version of osx than El Capitan... but
why would you want to? If I had my choice, I’d go all the way back to snow leopard on my obsolete going vintage MacBook. Running the newest os would just slow it down and, to be honest, I’ll also be cutting myself off from older software. For instance, Bryce doesn’t work in high Sierra. I would LOVE to buy an old iPad 4 if it has a version of iOS before iOS 9 that’ll Run all my old games that the original devs no longer support. You know, mass effect: infiltrator, deadspace (never finished), NOVA 3 (which I never finished) and so on. Upgrading to the latest version isn’t always the best idea.
1) no law that I’m aware of in the
world compels a company to service an out of warranty device that the consumer broke themselves and it is held, as far as I can tell, that revoking your warranty because you objectively broke something, is a universally accepted practice. Otherwise, why even go into business if you have to give everyone lifetime service guarantees even in cases of monumental user screwups or acts of god?
2) hmm, when I had my iMac serviced, under my free year of AppleCare, Apple didn’t tell me that I broke it. They just fixed it, for free, and gave me back my iMac.
3) Apple makes the parts available to AASPs. From where I’m sitting, they have a right to make their parts anyway they choose and you have a right to not buy their products. Apple doesn’t owe you, me or anybody anything unless we have a warranty or a certification. As a pragmatic, I see Apple as a company that’s trying to protect themselves legally and from potential bootleggers. As a pragmatic, it’s unreasonable to ask someone to compromise themselves against their own nature or in detriment to what they view as their own survival. If you don’t like Apple or the way Apple does things then don’t whine about it, simply don’t buy their products. Go buy something else. That’s the best way to go about it.
If I were to break my XBONE, I’d have to go through Microsoft or an authorized service provider to get it repaired. If they let the market be flooded with shiny new XBONE and XBONE X parts then they’ll lose control of
their platform and lose the ability to conduct themselves as a business and innovate. It’s part of the reason why Microsoft will
never share the source code to their software or why Sony will
never release their first party exclusives for another platform. They’d lose control of their product and will cease functioning and existing as a business.
