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What Do You Want to See From Apple in 2019?

DoctorTech said:
Wow, I am 97 posts in and I feel like I am the only one looking forward to Apple AR Glasses. Granted, there is very little chance of seeing them in 2019 but I can still hope. I am looking forward to a "heads up, hands free" user experience.

Realistically for 2019, I would like to see a smarter Siri. My home and office are 100% Apple with the exception of some Amazon Echo devices. My HomePod blows away all Echo devices (1 Echo Show and several Echo Dots connected to external speakers) in terms of sound quality - it is no contest. However, Alexa is still "smarter" and able to answer general knowledge questions better than Siri. I would like to replace my Echo Devices with HomePods if/when Apple introduces a lower price HomePod because I feel more comfortable from a privacy standpoint with Apple smart speakers (I would not even consider putting Google or Facebook smart speakers in my home). I just hope that Apple puts more work into Siri. Siri's voice recognition is great and "she" has lots of potential, I am hoping Apple can unleash that potential in 2019.
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I just made that jump for the privacy reasons. A house full of HomePods is amazing, but has many issues I didn’t see before doing it. To keep them all intergrated on the Home app they have to fall under one users profile. I would like each family member can customize and get notifications from their HomePod, but this isn’t currently available. HomePods could be really amazing if the put the effort in.
 
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H.E. Pennypacker said:
Maybe I’m crazy but I fail to see why people complain about Apple being expensive. They’ve always been the most expensive. You know you’re getting that. Cost of raw materials goes up year after year. Sure Apple makes a healthy profit but don't expect prices on a premium product to go down in price, that’s just stupidity. You wouldn’t walk into a Mercedes dealership and be pissed they don’t have a price point to match a Hyundai. But it has 4 wheels a motor and a steering wheel. Why would this Mercedes be more? Because you’re buying a premium luxury product. No different for Apple. If you don’t like the price point, you can jump ship.
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Some expect return on their invested dollars. If you don’t, go subsidize them instead of quacking about jumping ship
 
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nexusrule said:
The quality is the same, I won't say I started using Apple products 30 years ago, because I only started in 2002 (I am 38 yo) and I had my share of more or less severe issues. PowerBooks motherboards' failure, plastic Macbook firmware issues that caused continuous reboots for a year before Apple acknowledge them, the iPhone with the wrong antenna design that made calls drop, Steve Jobs' era MacBook Pro swollen batteries, the iMac display leg marketed as built with "NASA levels of precision" that after 6 months just stopped working. And this is only from the top of my mind and only acknowledged problems with free replacement/repair programs.
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Yes they fixed, there is a membrane that prevent dust to enter. If you don't want to buy a product you are totally free of not buying, but making things up so that your choice looks like it's objective and due to rational reasons and not your personal taste doesn't make sense.
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Apple themselves said it is not fixed. And reports confirm that. Beyond anecdotal evidence from friends whose new laptops were wrecked by dust, the consensus is the membrane helped a little. It was put there, in any case, to reduce noise, not eliminated dust.
 
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H.E. Pennypacker said:
In my experience Apple products are by far the best quality. Everything I own that’s Apple has never had any quality issues. So to me your point is moot.
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Then my guess is that all complainers with faulty keyboards, crushed iPads, people with devices stuck at Apple logo must be wrong
Like sick people - because you don’t seem to be sick at all
 
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An updated iPhone SE.

An improved "new MBA" (less anemic CPU, longer battery life). Its still the ideal form factor after all these years (perfect screen size, wedge subtly but significantly improves typing experience, no POS Touch Bar, not-oversized trackpad).
 
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Enclavean said:
No more unjustified price increases would be nice
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They will justify it by calling it courage...AKA greed.

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Faster Innovation. Much faster and game changing improvements to Siri to make it a transformational new OS. Google Assistant and Alexa are far ahead despite being late to the game.

The watch paired with airpods with Siri running as the OS for the majority of my communications. I'd like to use my ipad for everything else that requires a screen and my MBA for heads down work.
 
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maflynn said:
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.
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Iphones were never $200. The carriers subsidized them.
 
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A decent keyboard on the laptops, recognition that thin is not always best, a return to a few basic ports so I don't need to carry around multiple dongles just to be part of normal society. The 2014/5 MBPs were the right size had a good keyboard and could easily be modified to have 4 USB-C ports on the left whilst maintaining HDMI and SD card support on the right.

Do I think this will happen - NO
Are we investigating other machines - YES

Laptops are mostly for work - not for strutting with!
 
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  • 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.
I could think of a few more, but I don't want to come across as unreasonable. :)
 
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- New iPad Mini with FaceID and new proc.
- HomePod support for (all) radio stations!
- New Mac Pro or iMac
- Open up the HomeKit ecosystem more
 
No more unnecessary price hikes.

Build quality and QC in hardware & software to match current prices (Builds from stronger materials. Fix PWM and WiFi/LTE on iPhones, irresponsive touch, white spot issues on the iPad Pros, all laptop keyboards, and T2 chip/Bridge kernel panics).

No more thin tech.

Accepting returns for manufacturing defects without using AC.

Respect for the customers who made you a trillion dollar company.

And an iPad Mini Pro with 4gb of Ram and gen 2 pencil support.
 
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Can we get a family of HomePods... different price points, particularly a cheap one to compete with the dot. If I buy the Echo family I can connect almost every room in my house for cheaper than a HomePod. I love my HomePod, let it be the main hub for the HomePod Minis and a price point under $100 would be preferred. No reason the only home accessory needs to be $350.

Cheaper everything.....particularly iPhones... $1500 for an iPhone, that's absolutely insane, no wonder they didn't sell as much this year.

Someone mentioned an Apple Watch Air... not a bad idea considering not everyone needs an EKG on their wrist.

Any type of VR would be cool, headset or glasses, not a necessity though. They should enter the gaming market through the Apple TV, but with better internals to compete with video game consoles.

Apple Car.... I won't hold my breath, thing would be 100k and be the same as a Toyota.
 
nihil0 said:
For me it is still gorgeous to look at everyday and I don't see it as outdated. However, I would welcome space gray as option for "normal" iMacs as well. Also, new cooling redesign would be great but only if they will leave user upgradable RAM as an option.
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A Hudson Hornet is beautiful too but we don't drive them to work anymore. The iMac is a dated design. If Apple had a Mac OS competitor, we might see some innovation and new design in the iMac. But as it is.... I'm still not all that convinced Mac is committed to the desktop computer in the long run outside of a few very expensive, pro focused models which have yet to be available (I'll believe we see a Mac Pro this year when I see it).
 
What I WANT and what Apple would possibly deliver are 2 different things, more and more every year.
Want: Updated Mac Pro with cheese-grater like simplicity of design, and extreme upgradability, including processors. iPhone that has TOUCH ID, plus FaceID, but no notch, and at least a physical detent for the home button, sort of like an iPhone 7/8.
Cheaper iPhones. ~$600usd for a top end (ie 256gb) is reasonable.
Laptops that still have USB(1) style ports, mini display ports. Dongles are dumb.
Magsafe returns.
 
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