What Do You Want to See From Apple in 2019?

[Uofmtiger]

Mainly lower prices on most on their products, especially the iPhone. They have always been higher than the competition, but this year it just got ridiculous.

A smaller cheaper version of the HomePod with aux out.

Improvements in Siri.

 

[eVasilis]

A new mac pro, cMP style. Low base price and huge upgradability. 6 X16 full speed PCIe 4 slots, dual processors, USB 3.1, Thunderbolt, 10GB ethernet, PCIe SSDs and SATA Ports for mechanical drives. No need for egpu if one can have a decent GPU, or more, inside. NVIDIA support: all this palaver with NVDIA cards is tiring. Mac OS tweaked for speed.

 

[xristy]

I want to see new releases of Apple apps on iOS that don't gratuitously remove functionality or change it so that it is not useful.

For example, since the new Books app in iOS 12, there does not seem to be a way to make the setting of books by author to persistently show just the purchased books by any given author.

The default is to "show all books" purchased or not.

When visiting a particular author there is a drop-down that allows to just "show purchased books" but that option is not retained when leaving the display for books by a given author and then returning to view books by the author again.

Further, there is no global way to say that I only want to see the purchased books for each author.

I get the marketing idea but I just want to see the purchased books and I'll select the "all books" option for a given author when I want to see what's available for purchase when that's what I want to see. This is essentially how the prior iBooks app behaved.

 

[RandomDSdevel]

-----I agree with a lot of what's been said here so far already, but here's what I'd like to see, including what bears repeating, whether it would end up impacting me, personally, or not:

1. The return of higher-end configurations at more reasonable prices (and a general price reduction across the board.)
2. A new keynote (and a phenomenal one) early in the year.
3. An updated non–Touch-Bar MacBook Pro with a usable keyboard, if nothing else, even if I don't end up buying one myself. (I've seriously actually been toying with the idea of putting my own custom configuration into a Clevo case and maybe even Hackintoshing it despite the hassle that this would end up being.)
4. The modular Mac Pro we've been promised, preferably in such a form that the 'modularity' is the standard kind, done using expansion slots/bays.
5. A new Apple display.

The only reason I could think of for the iMac to get a major redesign would be to match that last item on my list.

 

[cocky jeremy]

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?

Wanting Forstall back is enough for me to be glad this guy will never be in charge of anything at Apple. lol.

"You can tell it's a note app because the app looks like a notebook."

Yuck!

 

[nt5672]

What I’d like to see ...

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3. The MacBook Pro offered in 15 inch and 17 inch versions.

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5. Offer lossless (CD quality) and hi resolution (better than CD quality - 48/24 to 192/24) streaming tiers to iTunes.

6. Start selling lossless (CD) and hi resolution music downloads in the iTunes Store.

You mean start acting like its 2019, not 2012.

 

[paul4339]

I would like to see Apple buy the Game of Thrones franchise and make GRR Martin come to work each day at 8am and write.
(and for good measure, maybe, throw in a AW4 with heart monitor and afib detection to make sure he doesn't keel over before he's done).

 

[nburwell]

From my standpoint, I'd love to see updated AirPods. That is probably the single most Apple product I'm looking forward to in 2019. As for hardware, my Mac, iPad, Watch, ATV 4K and iPhone (although I'm sure I'll upgrade since I'm on IUP) will all suffice since they're still fairly new. A lower price point HomePod would definitely pique my interest; should Apple release one.

iOS 13 following a close second.

 

[DiamonDecoden]

iPad mini pro with pencil support please! not everyone love the 11/12 size plus they are too similar!!!
that is all. thanks!

 

[dysamoria]

• Kill all of the multitude of iOS Safari text edit bugs introduced back in iOS 7, getting worse every version.
• Make Quality Assurance a MUCH HIGHER PRIORITY
• Dark mode in iOS... or just go back to iOS 6’s design.
• A Mac Pro done right, that isn’t an insane and embarrassing expense. It is NOT NECESSARY.

Most of all: Bring back the Apple of 2007-2012. That’s the company that won me over and made the best products. That’s the company that kicked the computer industry in the ass. Today’s Apple is a Wall Street tool, shoving out buggy release after buggy release, increasing prices and generally making me hate computers again.

 

[MarkB786]

Just a renewed, extreme, and intentional focus on consumer products. Seems like there are lots of distractions in Cupertino these days.

 

[gd2244]

1. AirPower to charge all the new devices I got.
2. New AirPods, maybe with longer battery life.
3. A bit of a stretch, but I would like to see Apple expand that trade in deal for Macs I have a 2012 Mac Mini collecting dust and I’d like to get a bit extra for upgrading/trading it in.
4. Maybe for the price to come down a bit for Macs? Probably a long shot but still would like to hope for it.

 

[modent]

I have a failing 2013 Mac Pro and I'm in dire need of a real replacement. I am not interested in a iMac pro I want a real Mac Pro.

 

[nt5672]

A little less contempt for their customers would be nice. I'm not holding my breath though.

That should be, "A little less contempt for their adult customers would be nice."

 

[ryanwarsaw]

There is making a profit, and then there is Apple profit. Please don't think we are ignorant to that fact.
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There is no sentence that should ever put the words "bad" and "financially" together, when speaking of Apple. They are making money hand over first *now* and not innovating. I'm only going by what my eyes can see.

i originally just said I wanted to see record profits and a good forecast. For whatever reason you took exception the fact that even a lowly shareholder like me has the right to state his opinion on this "product advocate" site.

So I still hope for the same thing and hope my wishes coincide with whatever gadget is missing from your life. i also hope that in the future you acknowledge the fact that shareholders have a right to co-exist on this site. Happy new year.

 

[forrie]

More innovation, real innovation and much less consumer price gouging.

 

[ctrlshft]

A new Mac Pro with some real customization options is at the top of my list.

I'd also really like it if they'd go back to producing dedicated thunderbolt displays; even though they made a pretty firm statement to the contrary, it'd actually be a pretty cool way to voice dedication in supporting their non-display-ready products.

 

[jicon]

Let's see... on the Mac side... ALL products should have user replaceable SSDs and memory.
Maybe some sort of redo on the laptop keyboards... if they are prone to failure, they should be easier/cheaper to replace
iPad - bendgate. get it sorted. iOS - File system and optimization for tablets still a pressing need to be a computer replacement.
iPhone - $1700CAD for a 256GB XS is a big problem. The cost doesn't seem justifiable. Just not certain what sort of hardware innovations we are going to see in the phone space going forward... switch to USB-C?

Edit: Oh, and we need a return to AirPort. New routers, airplay enabled expresses, etc.. Reliable products.

 

[dazzer21-2]

A new mac pro, cMP style. Low base price and huge upgradability. 6 X16 full speed PCIe 4 slots, dual processors, USB 3.1, Thunderbolt, 10GB ethernet, PCIe SSDs and SATA Ports for mechanical drives. No need for egpu if one can have a decent GPU, or more, inside. NVIDIA support: all this palaver with NVDIA cards is tiring. Mac OS tweaked for speed.

That sounds mightily expensive already.

 

[Bacillus]

I disagree. I think it's damn good in this horrible time that one guy is standing up and trying to make a difference. It's about time that there was a little humanity and empathy in this world!

It’s everybody’s right to feel impressed with random and free political opinions - whether or not issued for the sake of distracting attention from Apple issues at stake

 

[carrrrrlos]

iPhone X features in 5e size.

 

[Bacillus]

Do you know all these people with issues or do you believe everything you read online ?

Having had my own share of hw issues myself, I am pretty confident I can discern real shortcomings from overblown complaints.
Thanks for your concern.

 

[skellener]

Big hideous ugly box that is extremely and easily user upgrade-able and houses the most power Mac ever built. Where's the MacPro, Tim?

 

[lec0rsaire]

What do I want to see? I would love a MacBook Pro with a 700 nit OLED display and bt.2020. But that’s not happening in 2019.

How about more reasonable prices for a start? How about the Plus size XS starting at $999. Even a $100 price drop would make a big difference. How about 128 GB as the base storage? Those who want more will pay for more but Apple has to realize that its competitors have really good product at aggressive prices. The strategy of the past will not continue to work. In fact it would be malpractice to release 2019 models at the exact same price points.

No one is talking about crazy discounts. Just more reasonable pricing in line with what these things are: phones. iPhones are not MacBooks and shouldn’t be priced as such.

 

[lec0rsaire]

its too niche of a market for mainstream Apple. But you can bootdisk windows in mac for gaming

Most people buying these machines are either students, writers/journalists or photo/audio/video media professionals. There is no market for gaming MacBooks except for teenagers with a lot of money who would obnoxiously brag about their $7000 gaming Mac in high school.