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What Do You Want to See From Apple in 2019?
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I want to be able to tag, search tags, and move photos from the camera roll to specific folders in iOS (not just a copy while keeping photos in the camera roll). That's really all I care about right now.
What about delivering on what they say they are going to eg Powermat
What about offering world wide what they advertise their products do, eg ECG on Watch, how long did it take NFC to be used world wide, the first iPhone I bought with NFC was 100% useless for NFC functions.
What about competitive prices instead of the MAX the can possibly sell
What about a new interface, Jesus those rows and rows of icons are day dot old.
What about being a leader in tech, you know Apple, lie the old days, now all you do is wait to see how well someone else goes, then improve on it......IF YOU CAN, you have NOT been able to do this with Siri
File system for iPad, make PROPER use of the USB port on the iPad. List goes on and on.
What about offering world wide what they advertise their products do, eg ECG on Watch, how long did it take NFC to be used world wide, the first iPhone I bought with NFC was 100% useless for NFC functions.
What about competitive prices instead of the MAX the can possibly sell
What about a new interface, Jesus those rows and rows of icons are day dot old.
What about being a leader in tech, you know Apple, lie the old days, now all you do is wait to see how well someone else goes, then improve on it......IF YOU CAN, you have NOT been able to do this with Siri
File system for iPad, make PROPER use of the USB port on the iPad. List goes on and on.
I could think of a few more, but I don't want to come across as unreasonable.
- 30% price cut across all product lines.
- Tim Cook to step down as CEO and take up his former post as Executive VP for worldwide sales and operations.
- 30% price cut across all product lines.
- Re-hiring of Scott Forestall and a significantly diminished role for Jony Ive.
- 30% price cut across all product lines.
- Renewed effort at providing user-upgradable/repairable computers (don't solder SSDs to the motherboard please).
- 30% price cut across all product lines.
- A genuine and sustained commitment to power users and the creative industry whose output does not get polluted by consumerist thinking. (Mat screen options, hardware calibrate-able displays, nvidia GPU BTOs, etc.)
- 30% price cut across all product lines.
- Hardware that doesn't come pre-bent, or breaks at the sight of skin flakes.
- 30% price cut across all product lines.
Apple has a 38% profit margin, following your suggestions of cutting prices 30% would leave them ready to go bankrupt in a couple of years. Maybe this simple math could also help people realise prices are not as high as people perceive them?
Higher components cost = higher final price. Doesn't matter if you create or not the components, in fact, if you create the components, in the medium to long term you benefit from it. The previous Mac mini was a cheaper machine, therefore the starting price was lower. It's as simple as that. How do you think that following my logic means a 60% increase in price with each iteration escapes me.
For comparison:
Previous base Mac Mini PC, Dual Core 1.4 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD, Intel HD Graphics 5000, 4 USB ports plus 2 Thunderbolt ports
New base Mac Mini: Quad Core 3.6Ghz, 8GB RAM, 128GB PCIe-based SSD, Intel UHD Graphics 630, 4 Thunderbolt USB-C ports plus 3 USB 3.0 ports
- real „all-day-battery-life“ - get back to the lead over the competition Apple once had
- 256GB ssd drives minimum standard on macs
- USB-C MagSafe
- apple pencil support on trackpads and phones
- don’t limit product generation updates to the higher-end models (MBP with Touch Bar)
- external USB-C storage support for iPad Pro
- 14 and 16 inch MBPs with minimal bezels (though that's probably 2020ish)
Want to see some better quality accessories from Apple.
Seems Apple has been neglecting the accessories.
Apple says to deliver world-class products but the accessories, like the lightning cable, MacBook charger and the earphones, are of worst build quality. As a user of Apple devices, I would expect they come up with some better quality in 2019.
They say the camera is best in the iPhones.But with spending so much of money on iPhone and getting this sort of camera is seriously a matter of concern. There are other phones in the market which take better photos.
Seems Apple has been neglecting the accessories.
Apple says to deliver world-class products but the accessories, like the lightning cable, MacBook charger and the earphones, are of worst build quality. As a user of Apple devices, I would expect they come up with some better quality in 2019.
They say the camera is best in the iPhones.But with spending so much of money on iPhone and getting this sort of camera is seriously a matter of concern. There are other phones in the market which take better photos.
After giving it some thought and reflecting on the past 2 years of what Apple has done, the list of things that I want to see from Apple in 2019 is so long that I've concluded that the path that Apple is on is so different from what I need out of my devices. So in the end, I really don't want to see anything different out of Apple. Apple, you do you.
Let me correct it. I want Apple to bring their prices down to reality.
So true. Apple phone prices are too high. It’s no wonder folks with a 7 won’t upgrade.
1. Successor to iPhone SE.
2. Price cuts across the board.
3. Less compromised products. More ports, more expandability, more upgradability and more repairable.
4. No Eddy Cue during keynotes.
5. A game-changing device, like the original Mac, the iPhone and iPad.
6. A reasonably-priced desktop - without screen - that slots between the Mac mini and Mac Pro in the product lineup.
If they'd do #1, I wouldn't care in the slightest if they failed on all the rest.
2. Price cuts across the board.
3. Less compromised products. More ports, more expandability, more upgradability and more repairable.
4. No Eddy Cue during keynotes.
5. A game-changing device, like the original Mac, the iPhone and iPad.
6. A reasonably-priced desktop - without screen - that slots between the Mac mini and Mac Pro in the product lineup.
If they'd do #1, I wouldn't care in the slightest if they failed on all the rest.
...to actually have apple believe in their line 'Think Different'.
What attracted me to Apple was the designs of their products and the colors. It was something no other computer manufacturer was doing. I couldn't go to HP or Dell and explain i wanted a beige or a blue desktop with a matching laptop but yet i could with Apple. If i wanted a small cube sized machine, again Apple was the company. Now their products are as bland and un-original as their competitors used to be back in the day.
I want to see the design 'wow factor' back again. The imac G4, the imac G3's, the power mac G4 cube, the white ibooks, when i saw those kind of designs and colors i was like WOW now that's a MAC because it just screamed at you 'This is a MAC'. I do not get that 'wow factor' anymore with Apple products because they are all bland looking and focus on the internal hardware more.
When the different color imac g3's came out, i remember going to the main computer shop and looking at rows and rows of cream colored boxed shaped desktop computers from the likes of HP, Dell, IBM and NEC, then further down the line, i noticed cases with different colors, i looked up, saw the Apple name and logo above the machines and instantly i was like 'these machines look sooo cool, i want one!!!', even though i couldn't afford one. HP, Dell, IBM and NEC instantly did not matter anymore, it wasn't a square box, it had curves, it had different lines, it had different color, now THAT's a mac, i had to have one.
Now i look at Apple's range of machines and just go 'meh, whatever' and carry on looking at other manufacturers models on display.
Therefore, in 2019, i want apple to bring that 'WOW factor' back.
What attracted me to Apple was the designs of their products and the colors. It was something no other computer manufacturer was doing. I couldn't go to HP or Dell and explain i wanted a beige or a blue desktop with a matching laptop but yet i could with Apple. If i wanted a small cube sized machine, again Apple was the company. Now their products are as bland and un-original as their competitors used to be back in the day.
I want to see the design 'wow factor' back again. The imac G4, the imac G3's, the power mac G4 cube, the white ibooks, when i saw those kind of designs and colors i was like WOW now that's a MAC because it just screamed at you 'This is a MAC'. I do not get that 'wow factor' anymore with Apple products because they are all bland looking and focus on the internal hardware more.
When the different color imac g3's came out, i remember going to the main computer shop and looking at rows and rows of cream colored boxed shaped desktop computers from the likes of HP, Dell, IBM and NEC, then further down the line, i noticed cases with different colors, i looked up, saw the Apple name and logo above the machines and instantly i was like 'these machines look sooo cool, i want one!!!', even though i couldn't afford one. HP, Dell, IBM and NEC instantly did not matter anymore, it wasn't a square box, it had curves, it had different lines, it had different color, now THAT's a mac, i had to have one.
Now i look at Apple's range of machines and just go 'meh, whatever' and carry on looking at other manufacturers models on display.
Therefore, in 2019, i want apple to bring that 'WOW factor' back.
The gaming community on the Mac only needs better GPU's, same performance that any video or movie creator would need. Everyday I'm seeing more PC's with better GPU's used for video and movie creation. If they default the Vega GPU's on every mac will greatly improve these issues.
Well.. if only you had read what I had written, "brah". I said: I had entered my work address in the apple maps settings. Assuming that with the super intelligent AI features of Siri 1+1 = 2. I ask for directions to work, Siri checks Maps to see which address i had entered in the settings. When i used my Google smartwatch and my Nexus 6P, entering my work address in the Google Maps settings was enough for it to understand that by asking to go to work, Google would check what I had given up. Oh and if Jesus had not been crucified, he would probably be dead by now. 2019 years after his birth.
I have some for Apple and some for not Apple.
I am a huge Mac person and have been for over 20 years. I will never buy a PC again. Mac prices are high, but you get what you pay for. I know that there have been issues with some Macs and not necessarily worth the price. But Apple makes the OS and hardware to function together, unlike PCs where you have Microsoft making the OS and a crap load of companies making the hardware and being specific with drivers and such.
Apple:
-Allow control of the Home Pods from the iPhone or Mac.
-Better Siri. Kill her off and start from scratch. She needs to be more like Alexa only better.
-Have one App for Mail, Calendar, Contacts, notes and similar to Outlook. Hate having to use 3 separate apps for this. Even if it's a totally separate app that I have to pay for. I would.
- More HomeKit enabled devices from Apple and not 3rd party places.
-Better Apple TV remote on the iPhone/iPad.
-Apple Stock to go back up, up and up...
Non-Apple:
Microsoft to finally add iCal and iDav to Outlook. Stupid that they have not done this yet.
Just my 2 cents worth.
I am a huge Mac person and have been for over 20 years. I will never buy a PC again. Mac prices are high, but you get what you pay for. I know that there have been issues with some Macs and not necessarily worth the price. But Apple makes the OS and hardware to function together, unlike PCs where you have Microsoft making the OS and a crap load of companies making the hardware and being specific with drivers and such.
Apple:
-Allow control of the Home Pods from the iPhone or Mac.
-Better Siri. Kill her off and start from scratch. She needs to be more like Alexa only better.
-Have one App for Mail, Calendar, Contacts, notes and similar to Outlook. Hate having to use 3 separate apps for this. Even if it's a totally separate app that I have to pay for. I would.
- More HomeKit enabled devices from Apple and not 3rd party places.
-Better Apple TV remote on the iPhone/iPad.
-Apple Stock to go back up, up and up...
Non-Apple:
Microsoft to finally add iCal and iDav to Outlook. Stupid that they have not done this yet.
Just my 2 cents worth.
Nothing, im glad I started to migrate away from apple 2 years ago. I do want to see an android desktop that can compete with Mac OS, so I can transition Completely.
What I want to see is lower prices for Apple products, that's not gonna happen though. What Tim wants to see is another price hike. Good luck with that!
I want a new iCondom in 2019 with some nice health features and Condom OS 13. I hope Apple doesn’t charge $999 for it...
I've reluctantly decided that the Mac won't have powerful graphics at a reasonable price for the foreseeable future, and anything I do that leans heavily on graphics processing I have moved over to my Windows box. To muscle up a Mac to comparable graphics capabilities costs more than an entire Windows platform with the same capabilities, and until that math turns around, that's that.
as others have stated I want my ipad pro to be PRO.
mouse support
a real file system
etc
sad part is Android already does some of these BASIC things that IOS doesnt.
mouse support
a real file system
etc
sad part is Android already does some of these BASIC things that IOS doesnt.