It used to be the small touches that was built into the Mac or items provided. The start up gong, these things were such that it made a mac a mac if you get what I'm saying. Now its just a commodity and Apple is looking to squeeze the profits from it. The only way Apple will change is if sales decrease
I don’t see how removing the startup gong is a money saving endeavour or whatever. It’s probably because the gong is annoying in a meeting or library, or if someone is sleeping nearby.
For me, it was more about the attitude of apple commoditizing the mac
2016 models and up don’t have it. It’s one of the changes of the last redesign.
I've never had it, probably because I always silence my machines and just turn the sound on when I need it (I've always found audible notifications from computers annoying, so one of the first things I do is turn them all off).
A downgrade IMO, they should have at least made it optional.
No, I mean recently where the macs are virtually sealed. Just look at what it takes to replace the battery, it requires a whole new top case. Apple is intent on making these disposable appliances.
Apple addressed this years ago. They will replace it out of warranty for US$199. No need to repurchase a brand new machine.
Apple bills itself as a premium product and those types of things are very petty.
In terms of games...
iCloud free tier is still 5 GB, same as in 2011. 50 GB costs €0.99 a month. That's €12 a year, or €24 per average lifetime of an iPhone. But I guess that trillion dollars has to come from somewhere, right?
Definitely feels like an erosion of experience when combined with what’s said below about the nickel and diming (I’m still sore over the power cord, who plugs the entire brick into the wall ffs, those 87W ones are huge and heavy to be hanging out a socket!)Sorry no, not for me. Pricing is one thing, performance entirely another, the latter being a factor of revenue for many. A big factor now is Apple has to be literally shamed into reacting, then only to ignore & disregard the same product which is clearly concerning.
"We" also believe that Apple is looking to move to it's own CPU's again. If so Apple deeply investing in Intel's platform likely makes little sense at this point in time. If this is the case, doing as little as possible potentially makes sense, and given Apple's target audience I can see ARM Mac's fitting right in...
Brings no joy as it is, what it is
Q-6
John Lewis often have £1-200 off but that’s peanuts on a £2.5k machine and I really want 512GB storage so that’s either a build to order or the higher end stock configuration which is £2,700 sans discount. Considering comparable machines from other manufacturers are available for about £1,000 less I’m seriously wobbling on whether I want to indulge myself in MacOS at any cost... Apple need to look at what their lineup is offering and fix it - at the moment the 12-13” ultraportable thin and light is massively over served by 4 separate models in dozens of configurations while the only 15” models are trying to cover everything from those who just want a decent computer with a larger screen to those that need a workstation and aren’t really suited to either.
Sadly, no.
Thats sad. Definitely the end of an era.
