What Do You Want to See From Apple in 2017?

[Bacillus]

Apple must launch the Next Device: an iPad/MacBook convert.
Why ?
Apple is completely ignoring the new generation, the 15....25 yr. olds that grew up with the iPad. They now need a file system, multi-windowing, peripherals, and more things impossible with an iOS device. Attributes that obviously surpass the read-only habits of the Apple Board. Every schoolteacher realizes this, but apparently not Apple Board members.
The end of the Post-PC era hasn't come, nor will, and this tragic errant just shows how disconnected Apple has become. This statement denies the whole IT-industry and is a self-disqualification of Balmeric proportions.
The new generation will never give up their real touchscreens. It doesn't care about Cook, Apple's legacy or it's inflated Pro label. It urges for a modern convert offering: MacBook functionality without giving up iPad multi-touch. And yes, that device will initially compete with current MacBook and iPad. But it will open a new market that is soo many times bigger.
And yes, it requires a convolute iOS/MacOS or whatever serves the goal.
So that takes courage. And a vision beyond removing a headphone port or MagSafe adapter.
As nice as the TouchBar can be for some tasks, it is a sad compromise. A 4th interface element (next to keyboard, screen, mouse) competing for user attention adding to complexity. It doesn't solve the elementary lack of a multi-touchscreen. It was an escape to avoid tough decisions with the marketing butt-talk that real tech savvy companies don't need. Symptom of a lamentary Apple, unable to see evolution - leaving the future to Microsoft and the Taiwanese IT industry.

 

[throAU]

You can if you use the server version. I have made a vm of 10.6.8 server and it works pretty well in vmware fusion. And no hacking required.

Yup.

But that means you need to own the 500 dollar (aussie? forget, it was very costly anyway) server version (10.6 server was not cheap), or you're technically pirating it. Or you can make minor changes to the regular 10.6 install media. It's not terribly difficult.

I just wish apple would open the license up for 10.6 and do a re-issue of it, so people can run it totally legit. It's the one major version heaps of people want to run, because it can run Rosetta. 10.7 onwards loses you a heap of software compatibility.

It could cost apple virtually nothing to do this. They just don't care.
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Apple must launch an iPad/MacBook convert. Why ?
Apple seems to completely ignore the new generation, that grew up with the iPad. The needs of now 15....25 year olds have grown. They now need a file system, multi-windowing, peripherals, and more things impossible with an iOS device.

Sorry to tell you, but for the vast majority, filesystems are dead (or at least, walking dead).

iCloud, Office 365, web apps.

The days of saving documents to specific folders on your machine are fading fast. I give it 5 years, tops. I'm already seeing pushes for it in enterprise.

The majority of people just don't care, if their device breaks or gets stolen, it doesn't matter, they just log in and re-sync. They want to be able to get their stuff from anywhere, whether it's their PC, Mac, Phone, Tablet or any random web browser. Roll-out of high speed internet and multiple devices per user will only accelerate this trend. 5G cellular is coming and basically "fast enough" that cloud storage essentially no different from local - for what most will want to do with it.

If you actually care what filesystem folder you store something in you're in a rapidly shrinking minority.

Most people absolutely suck with backups and cloud storage fixes that.


Multi-window? Multi-tasking? Yes. iOS will get that.
iCloud drive? Sure.

But storing things on the device in arbitrary folders, that may or may not be synced/backed up? Not happening. MS is doing their best to encourage SkyDrive, Apple is doing their best to push iCloud, it's just the way things are going I'm afraid. And again. For most people, it solves a real world problem for them - they just don't need to care where things are.


I totally get your perspective though. I'm a nerd (unix/windows sysadmin since the 90s) and even i'm using "cloud" storage more than regular files. Except i'm using owncloud for it. I can open my important stuff on any device i own.

 

[tywebb13]

that means you need to own the 500 dollar (aussie? forget, it was very costly anyway) server version (10.6 server was not cheap), or you're technically pirating it. Or you can make minor changes to the regular 10.6 install media. It's not terribly difficult.

I have a legitimate copy of the server version.

That's the only version you are allowed to make a vm for.

 

[pat park]

iOS dark theme. All that white kills my eyes.

 

[throAU]

I have a legitimate copy of the server version.

That's the only version you are allowed to make a vm for.

Well yay for you.

For the millions of other people with 10.6 desktop software, they're now screwed. Apple could very easily alter the 10.6 non-server license to allow virtualization and remove a major incentive for people to keep machines on 10.6.

 

[Bacillus]

Sorry to tell you, but for the vast majority, filesystems are dead (or at least, walking dead).

iCloud, Office 365, web apps.

The days of saving documents to specific folders on your machine are fading fast. I give it 5 years, tops. I'm already seeing pushes for it in enterprise.

Try setting up a 3 level document hierarchy with different doc types, elementary version mgt, for say 10 different subjects - as any stud would do...

 

[tywebb13]

Well yay for you.

For the millions of other people with 10.6 desktop software, they're now screwed. Apple could very easily alter the 10.6 non-server license to allow virtualization and remove a major incentive for people to keep machines on 10.6.

Well apple aren't going to do that.

And people are not screwed. They can just get the server version. It is still available.

Maybe that will change once it becomes unavailable. But for now it is still available.

 

[Harloh]

Add battery to the pull up menu, put back the music so you don't have to flick it to the right. ALSO Remove the lame grey background for the four bottom apps... EVERYONE who has an iphone realizes these stay constant, remove the grey background so it looks cleaner.

 

[dysamoria]

How come Apple's cloud services are a hot mess? How is it that Steve Jobs gets to take credit for all of the success and none of the failures? Where was Steve Jobs vision as it relates to search and maps etc...?

I said nothing about that stuff because my response was addressing taste and vision, not execution.

Jobs made mistakes. The guy seemed to be a ripe jerk. Still, he had good taste in design and he had a solid vision, even if it needed to shift and adapt to reality when he couldn't push reality in his direction.

 

[FelicityW]

ONE THING: MAKE THE STUFF YOU ALREADY MAKE WORK PROPERLY
Don't give me more features I only kinda sorta 'need', make the things I already have work flawlessly. This is a list of annoyances encountered over one week. I am sure other members have many, many more.

1. Photo Stream is very inconsistent. Sometimes my pictures show up on my computer, sometimes they don't. I have worked with Apple support and they are not able to make it consistent. The fix is always to slap it upside the head (turn off iCloud on one device, and start over).

2. Why don't files I export show up in Finder right away? They are there in Pathfinder, but not in regular finder. So, I have to find them in Pathfinder and drag them into regular Finder in order to attach them to anything that selects Finder as 'Choose' source. Boring.

3. Why are my nephew's texts showing up under my sister's number in iMessages? Where did her messages go? If I go in to send her a message under her name in Contacts, it takes me to my nephew's number in iMessages. I used to have his number listed under her name, with his name for the name of the phone, but messages never showed his name so I made him his own contact. The crossover happened before I did this; I was hoping the separation would fix the problem. Wrong.

WHY DOESN'T THIS STUFF "JUST WORK"?




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