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What Apple Product Are You Most Thankful For?
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First MacBook I got this year and quite thankful to finally have an actual computer again. Love all my apple products but the MacBook is definitely been a very nice quality of life change for me personally
My M2 macbook air is bad ass. I have had the displeasure of using the last intel model and it was terrible. The M2 kicks the crap out of it.
The Eco System. Whilst it sucks that I am too invested to leave, no other brand blends appliances, products like HomePod, Apple TV, watch, iPhone. It’s a pleasure to work on Macs and IPads that work so seamlessly with each other. It could always be better, but no one else is even close.
Apple Watch legitimately saved my life after slipping, hitting my head and being knocked unconscious alone. Woke up in the hospital to a doctor telling me they had run a CT scan and my watch had called the paramedics who brought me to the ER.
2021 MacBook Pro
Not a minute has gone by that I regret buying that computer.
Not a minute has gone by that I regret buying that computer.
I'm thankful for those....
iPhone 13 Pro Max 256gb Graphite.
iPad Mini 5 256gb with LTE.
iPad Pro 12.9 1st gen 128gb with LTE.
They are very useful.
iPhone 13 Pro Max 256gb Graphite.
iPad Mini 5 256gb with LTE.
iPad Pro 12.9 1st gen 128gb with LTE.
They are very useful.
I’m not thankful of these tool stuff, but iPad fundamentally changes how I use my phone and how I look at it.
iPhone, despite all of those seemingly magical power, is still a Phone with tiny screen unsuitable for any serious job that doesn’t involve phone call and maybe taking photos, oh and NFC stuff. iPad, being a glorified iPhone, does almost everything iPhone can do but much better.
With that being said, if my device breaks, I’ll replace it or repair it. No emotional attachment to them.
iPhone, despite all of those seemingly magical power, is still a Phone with tiny screen unsuitable for any serious job that doesn’t involve phone call and maybe taking photos, oh and NFC stuff. iPad, being a glorified iPhone, does almost everything iPhone can do but much better.
With that being said, if my device breaks, I’ll replace it or repair it. No emotional attachment to them.
Mac Iisi that I started hosting my website on. Went from me by myself to 250 person company that helps with math and science education. I continue to be amazed at what can happen with technology when used as it should be.
No.. it did not. MP3 Technology did that. And it had NOTHING to do with Apple.
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In 1987, with a project named EUREKA project EU147, Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB), the prestigious Fraunhofer Institut Integrierte Schaltungen research center (a division of the German Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft firm) began researching high-quality, low bit-rate audio coding. Fraunhofer-Gesellshaft now owns the licensing and the patent rights to the audio compression technology that was developed, a technology better known as MP3.
I agree, it immediately struck me as bad taste when I saw it on the front page.
Mac. Graphic design is hard and using a Mac makes it a lot easier to focus on not being able to think of good designs. I wish I were born earlier so I could have experienced the very early days of design software on Apple computers, not that I would have been able to afford it. So today I'm thankful that Mac is affordable considering the high quality of the product.
iPod Socks. My iPods feet were always nice and toasty in winter.
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I am thankful that I finally decided to get an iPhone. It is such a cool and clever device. And the Apple Watch just makes it better!
The Mac….not even close if we are talking in generalities. I would give up every other Apple product before getting rid of my Mac.
This year, probably the Apple Watch Ultra. Made it finally feel like a new product because the design has been so stagnant.
As for the current Apple product I own is probably AirPods. Since day 1 they were released I got them and understood how amazing they were. Completely love the lineup overall and how good they are.
Im very thankful for Apples pro software, just wish they would do something pro again in the photos space.
Finally I’m thankful for Ted Lasso. Awesome show.
*honorable mention to the M1 Max MacBook Pro. Last years product, but likely the best Mac I’ve ever owned for its release period. Rivals the 2013 Haswell Macbooks.
This year, probably the Apple Watch Ultra. Made it finally feel like a new product because the design has been so stagnant.
As for the current Apple product I own is probably AirPods. Since day 1 they were released I got them and understood how amazing they were. Completely love the lineup overall and how good they are.
Im very thankful for Apples pro software, just wish they would do something pro again in the photos space.
Finally I’m thankful for Ted Lasso. Awesome show.
*honorable mention to the M1 Max MacBook Pro. Last years product, but likely the best Mac I’ve ever owned for its release period. Rivals the 2013 Haswell Macbooks.
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I’m thankful for my iPhone, MacBook Pro, iPad & Apple Watch.
But it doesn’t has to be Pro.
It‘s also not about price.
Used wisely, they can (and do for a lot of people) make you a lot of money and improve live.
But it doesn’t has to be Pro.
It‘s also not about price.
Used wisely, they can (and do for a lot of people) make you a lot of money and improve live.
True enough about MP3 (and other forms of lossy/lossless encoding). But before the iPod, portable “MP3 players” were much less developed devices. Apple made the first one that was really worth using. I had the opportunity to try many of the early non-Apple ones that existed between about 1998 and 2001, I’ll leave it at that.
Don't you feel a sense of appreciation for the work that people do, to bring you the products and services that (hopefully) make your life better in some way?
I think that's the point of this thread. Just because we feel thankful about the positive aspects of our devices and are appreciative towards the people that have worked hard to make them what they are doesn't mean that we worship them or have joined a cult.
