What Do You Want to See From Apple in 2019?

[deadoctopi]

It would be great if they finally did away with the intrusive Volume icon when adjusting volume in iOS...it’s 2019 now, and we still have to have our screen blocked by a volume icon? It ruins the user experience.

Exactly. Which segues into what I would like out of Apple. Cohesion amongst a product lineup. If you’re gonna jump to usb C then DO IT everywhere. If you’re going to remove a headphone jack do it EVERYWHERE. innovation also could be feature parity. Shove a dual lens true depth camera into -every- phone and just gouge us on storage like good ‘ol Apple, instead of Double Dipping Apple with an Ever Growing Fragmented Product Lineup. New Apple Pencil with an unjustified price hike but won’t work with anything but a 3rd gen price hiked iPad?

And ban all keynote mentions of anything related to “emoji or Animoji” as a reason to sell me a $1000 phone with 32GB of non-Ed-andable storage, Timmy.

 

[km_00]

I want to see a room talk feature come to HomePod, like what the google home has! I think it’s would be a useful addition!

 

[prosopopeia2112]

Less white sneakers.

Fewer.

 

[ignatius345]

More respect for the user interface (good keyboards, ports that are still in widespread use).

A small, up-to-date iPhone.

 

[tharitm]

Price cuts, or even introduce new upgrades on the same old prices. Also, if price cuts aren't possible, make products which are worth the extra premium.

Also, get your sh*t together when it comes to the software, such as Siri.

 

[ignatius345]

Whatever you do Apple, please don’t change the 10 year old massive volume indicator graphic that inhibits other touches under its intrusive size for several annoying seconds. I’m just getting used to it.

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And while they're at it, make volume key presses work with a finer gradation of sound volume. There should be a way to move the volume less than 1/16 of the way with a press. It's way too hard at times -- especially at the lower end of the range -- to find the right volume at times.

 

[ksec]

Absolutely nailed it. Not sure who’s at fault but it seems to be a systemic issue from the top down, starting with Cook. Get a product person at the helm. Not a bean counter and logistics wizard. Get Cook back to his most performant role as COO.

Somewhere in the C-Level meetings, they knew that iPhone sales will be slowing, they already knew Mac sales were slowing too. So they HAD to add features to continue make it sell. And that is where these useless features came in.

In Steve's era, he would have left the Mac mostly untouched, and tries to milk it as long as possible with Hardware spec update and Software update. And focus on iPad, once iPad's design trends to no improvement, which is the current iPad Design, moves on to the next big thing, don't drill on it for too long.

It used to left a bad taste in our months because when Steve left those product untouched, things don't changes much and just iterate over and over on smaller improvements. Now we get to see what is the alternative like, useless features after features being put into products that waste our money, waste Apple's time and resources.

If $250B cash can bring Steve back for another 10 years I would not even blink a second to have Apple uses all of it for that.

 

[chfilm]

AirPower, new AirPods, better Siri (with airplay automatization support for homekit!!!) and better files app with hard drive support on iPad, also maybe more desktop like safari experience on iPad, and usb C on iPhone

 

[wigby]

Better quality, features I actually want to use, lower prices.

Apple is on a kick of adding more and more CPU power in the Ax series CPUs, and that's all well and good, but how many of us actually use all of that power on our phones? My old phones were plenty of fast.

Back in the day, I only paid 200 dollars for a phone, and now only a handful of years removed they're over a grand.

They’re plenty fast for email and browsing but Apple’s got their eye on AR and social media apps that use front facing cameras for real-time video chat and more.

 

[jm001]

A focus back to the Mac especially the Mac Pro. A notch-less iPhone like what they did with the iPad Pro.

 

[Mick-Mac]

All I want is a laptop with a quiet keyboard that I can comfortably type on vs one I just want to smash my fists into... I've never used the touchbar because it's too far away from the external keyboard I'm forced to use.

 

[DocMultimedia]

A sane lineup of iPhones.

Enough of this X, XR, XS, XSM, 8, 8+, etc. Just stop it. Please.

 

[Jcxa]

Bring back the 'It just works' mentality. To be even more blunt, give every Apple device owner the Value that they have dearly paid for and have failed to receive. I want a machine that works for me, not the other way around. If Apple wants to charge dear, then I want top of the line, state or the art. I want quality and reliability NOT cheap fashion statements, arbitrary thinness that reduces functionality or cheap gimmicks like emojis. Pro means for Professionals Not we get to charge more for less value!

I like the suggestion from an earlier poster that Apple employees and engineers should have to spend a good deal of time working out in rural areas where the internet is poor and cloud service are really slow. It would be very instructive and make for better products.

 

[Awsaim]

I just want a XS Smart Battery Case and then I’m fine for the rest of the year honestly

 

[Vasilioskn]

I hope Apple remembers they have this think called HomeKit. Maybe improve it since it’s dead last in the smart home market.

 

[Lioness~]

iPad Mini 5, bezelless and all.
Wireless charging, standing. For both iPhone and iPad Mini.
Then I wont need any new hardwares from Apple for a few yrs.

But I’d like too see a much more modern iMac coming soon. So it will be out of babydiseases when I need it in ~2-3 yrs.

 

[TracesOfArsenic]

Zombie Jobs would make things right for me.

 

[Glockworkorange]

Oh, just a new redesigned iMac, not much else really.

Or on second thought a new matching 5k Apple Display if I want to the Mac mini route.

I have a 5k iMac and the LG 5K. Same panel. Looks great.

 

[revmouse]

I want to see a 17" Macbook Pro with a dedicated GPU. That is all.

 

[rslee]

A way to merge multiple Apple ID accounts (with purchases and all) into one. I signed up for 3 by accident years ago on different machines and it's still a hassle...

Amen!

 

[Wandering Wastrel]

I want the icons from iOS 6 back. I liked skeuomorphism. (this will not happen)

I also want a phone the size of the SE, or even smaller like the size of the original iPod touch. Also with a headphone jack. (this will also not happen)

 

[Cand3ra]

Make Siri better!

 

[mgmacius]

Cheaper and not so thin products. Like an iPhone that lasts 2-3 days. Or a MacBook Pro with 24 hours battery life.
Kick out Tim Cook. Before he completely destroys the company

 

[pier]

My Apple products have had great reliability. Do you think you’ll be a more reliable product somewhere else? If so why stay with apple?

I stay with Apple mainly because I prefer macOS over Windows and Linux for working. For gaming Windows is definitely a better choice.

In the past decade, none of my self built PC towers have had defective components, but I've had a couple of Macs die on me as early as their 2nd year. I replace and update components on my gaming PCs only because I want new features or a performance upgrade. A friend of mine is still using a 12 year old PC I sold to him.

I don't own an iPhone. I like the hardware of my iPad Pro, but it's a crippled device by iOS. I got it mostly for the pencil and the screen size and quality. If in the future there is a similar device on another OS, for instance the upcoming Fuchsia OS, I won't hesitate to leave Apple.

I bought a 5K iMac about a year ago which has been flawless hardware wise, but High Sierra is far from problem free. Snow Leopard was the crest of the wave for me, as far as reliability goes. I'm waiting a couple more months to install Mojave. I'm hoping this machine will last 5-7 years and then, who knows? Windows is getting better every year. Fuchsia looks very promising too.

My old 2014 MBP has a couple of problems and will need a replacement soon. Sadly the current Apple laptops have been riddled with problems and don't inspire any confidence. If I had to buy a laptop today it would not be an Apple one. Maybe I'd get a Thinkpad or a Microsoft Surface. I'm glad I don't rely as much on a laptop as I used to a few years ago.

 

[ANDJOE]

The responses here have been terrible. Luckily for us, Apple doesn’t do R&D through internet message boards.