What Do You Want to See From Apple in 2020?

[subjonas]

You’re comparing two VERY different things.
Making an iTunes backup of your iPhone definitely doesn’t clear space off of it.
You can’t say: “Wow, I’m using 127gb of 128gb on my iPad.... I should back it up now, so I’m good for another few years”... however, you certainly could turn on iCloud everything, free up many gigs, & keep rockin & rollin.

Oh ok, I thought you were lumping the two together.

Though for things like photos, I still would rather offload them from my phone to a photos library manager on my Mac. Before, I used iPhoto which synced online with Flickr, and that worked out very well. The only small disadvantage with that system being the couple minutes it took every few months to offload the photos. The advantage over iCloud photos being it was free for 1TB, and I could edit the metadata from anywhere (I like having strict control over my libraries). iPhoto was replaced by Photos though, and I’m not sure if it has the same sync function with Flickr. But as I get older and more privacy-focused, I’d also rather not have all my photos online anymore, so I’m probably going to set up some home cloud for my photos. The system should be similar to what I did with Flickr, though probably without the ability to edit metadata. Though ideally, I’d have enough storage on my phone to never have to offload photos, and I could edit sidecar metadata right on the phone. 1TB should do it, which will probably happen soon, but the ability to edit sidecar metadata in iOS Photos probably will not.
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You do know your first reason makes absolutely no sense ?

Obviously, I don’t know that since I wrote it. Why not?

 

[SSDGUY]

A Mac mini with upgraded AMD graphics built-in. That would be a less painful option for older Mac Pro users (they can't afford or justify the new Mac Pro) to slide over.

Amen! Haven't owned a tower in quite a while. I went through two MBP's with an external display setup but burned through too many logic boards it made me gun shy to go that route again. I like my 27" retina iMac (it's been the most reliable mac I've ever owned) but I miss a larger display (had a 30") and the portability of a laptop. A powerful all-in-one mobile/desktop solution that is powerful and can stay cool … one can dream!

 

[pdoherty]

just 12 €/£/$ per year give you 10x the size.

Which implies they're just being douches by not giving you more free storage - especially when we're talking about people like me who own an iphone, an ipad pro and a mac mini.

 

[bluecoast]

iOS
A stability focused release with the only major feature being a springboard and lock screen revamp. Some new ideas here would be good, as this aspect is feeling particularly stale.

iPadOS
See above. Also: Full mouse and trackpad support. I mean c’mon, the iPad is just being hobbled at this point.

macOS
Stability is always good but I’d like to see the macOS and iOS UX align more.

iPhone
A smaller ‘iPhone 11’.

ARM MacBook
LTE/5G, insane battery life and iOS style sleep modes etc. I think that this product is pretty much a given at this point.

ARM iMac
Redesign, thin bezels, lower price. Given that the iMac hasn’t had a redesign for ages, I think that something big is planned.

13 inch MacBook Pro with the new keyboard (and Intel)
Again, pretty much a given.

 

[DrMotownMac]

They really need to get RID of the lightning ports and put USB-C on all of their devices! I HATE when I accidentally bring the USB-A to USB-C cable instead of the USB-A to lightning cable and then I can't charge my iPhone (or vice versa with my MacBook Pro or iPad Pro).

Just come out with consistent ports and cables for EVERY DEVICE!! If Steve Jobs were still alive, there's no question he'd subscribe to the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) theory of product design and use one port to rule them all. Look back to the original iMac with it's then controversial USB-A ports for proof. Everyone thought it was wrong and terrible (since no one had the right cables or peripherals), but eventually it was proven to be the right decision.

Now, imagine if USB-C were the only port available. Is there anything you couldn't do? Charging, transfering files to SSD drives, printing, scanning, hooking up cameras, connecting devices to each other? Yep. They can all be done with USB-C. There is absolutely NO NEED for these other ports, different types of cables, dongles, etc. How is this even a debate? Standardize this already!

This is the ONLY thing I ask for in 2020!!!

 

[jriskin]

Go back to the Macbook/Air/Pro split

Standard is cheaper, Air is more portable, pro is higher end and more ports/upgradability.

Pro gets more ports and slots... RAM/SSD, MagSafe, Ethernet, USB, SD...

It's simple and works and everyone loved it. Let the Air owners get their minimalism. Pro users don't want it at the expense of power/upgradability.

 

[justperry]

Cheaper Macs.

I can dream...

 

[Chung123]

AppleTV add-on camera (like facebook’s Portal) for FaceTiming on a huge screen AND MacOS on iPad Pro (not iOS 13...) Neither will happen, but a boy can dream....

It pains me so much that FaceBook ran with this idea. Apple should have added a camera to the AppleTV to allow easy FaceTime. (Forget Amazon's Echo etc... why can't we have FaceTime on the TV??)

At the very least, Apple should allow some of sort magic "docking" of the iPhone to do Full Screen FaceTime on your TV and fiigure out a way to mount it so the eye line is correct if using an iPhone. (The Apple TV can already sense if user iPhone is near. Allow magic connecting of the iPhone for the FaceTime).

Businesses utilize so many expensive video conferencing solutions, AppleTV would have been an amazing budget choice for conference rooms.

 

[mv24]

• cloning of Stevie Jobs
• coming back to the roots
• reinvent invention process
• produce meaningful products

but since all the above looks like too high expectations from the modern Apple

• if they still can make some humble revival of iPod reality
• may be another 100 or so colorful shades of the Apple products so those of us who still do not feel dizzy walking into Apple store would get light headed for sure

 

[RickyB]

PowerBook G5?

 

[ignatius345]

An entry level MacBook with the “new” keyboard.

An App Store for HomePod, with third-party apps. Podcasting, translation, audio-based games...

 

[Abazigal]

For Apple to not give me what I think I want, but what they think I want.

 

[Frantisekj]

Restraint. Patience. Rigor. Empathy.

Focus on products that make users’ lives better. Not just throwing mediocre stuff out the door and letting the market decide if it’s any good.

Some people won't agree with me but it will not change anything on that NO TECHNOLOGY CAN MAKE YOUR LIFE BETTER, ONLY EASIER, MORE COMFORTABLE OR LAZY! Will be reminding this as long as I will live.

 

[Frantisekj]

MacFather said:

Software that works.

Well, if none of Apple’s software works, how do you get through the day?

Something works something is pain in ass. As it is on iOS 12 on 5S for example. Tens of filled bugs untouched. Basic features as text correction is lame in number of countries. Working in multiple language environment is pain. App crashing. So Software quality is think to talk about.

I can not compare to Android and even do not care. I want my platform satisfy normal needs.

 

[Black Magic]

What I would like to see:

1. Siri needs to get smarter. You can't even turn off an alarm via voice.

2. iOS needs to be compartmentalized so that mail.app, calendar.app can get updates on their on without the need for updating the entire OS. I actually thought this was achieved and mentioned in iOS 7 WWDC.

3. Wallpaper App or add new wallpapers on a frequent interval. Apple wallpapers are that good!

4. Better iCloud storage prices.

5. Move away from 13in MacBook Pros to 14".

6. Streamline phone line up. Have 3 iPhones (4.8, 5.8, 6.8) all OLED.

7. Customization allowed after purchase for memory and SSD on MacBooks and iMacs.

 

[MattMJB0188]

It's kind of funny you mention the iOS classic look. I was watching a film and I saw an iPhone 4S in the film and I thought to myself wow that this device is almost nine years old with the old End Phone Call Button too.

That was the superior design. I hope they bring it back and get rid of what we have today. I have been saying this June 2013.

 

[fairuz]

If Elon Musk was Apple's CEO, you would only be able to use 75% of the full battery capacity of your iPhone. If you want to use the full capacity you have to pay an extra fee of $200. And there would be an extra 3% charge on your card every time you use Apple Pay.

Better than only using 50% of my iPhone's CPU due to the throttling.
We'd maybe also get new products that are exciting like they used to be. But I don't blame Cook for not being able to sustain the crazy improvement of the late 2000s.
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For Apple to not give me what I think I want, but what they think I want.

They thought I wanted a butterfly keyboard and no HDMI or USB ports.

 

[Abazigal]

They thought I wanted a butterfly keyboard

In an alternate reality where the butterfly keyboard didn’t fail, people might well have come to terms with it. The idea wasn’t bad in itself; the execution simply didn’t pass.

Basically, the logic is this - people generally don’t know what they want. If Apple only focuses on giving people what they think they want (as opposed to what they didn’t know they want), they might placate their user base in the short run, but this risks stagnation as Apple loses the opportunity to move on to the next big thing because they are so busy just serving their current user base.

Sometimes, Apple guesses right (AirPods), sometimes they guess wrong, sometimes the tides of change end up alienating some of the existing users, but I believe the pros will ultimately outweigh the cons.

 

[ipponrg]

In an alternate reality where the butterfly keyboard didn’t fail, people might well have come to terms with it. The idea wasn’t bad in itself; the execution simply didn’t pass.

Basically, the logic is this - people generally don’t know what they want. If Apple only focuses on giving people what they think they want (as opposed to what they didn’t know they want), they might placate their user base in the short run, but this risks stagnation as Apple loses the opportunity to move on to the next big thing because they are so busy just serving their current user base.

Sometimes, Apple guesses right (AirPods), sometimes they guess wrong, sometimes the tides of change end up alienating some of the existing users, but I believe the pros will ultimately outweigh the cons.

I didn’t know butterfly keyboards were the next big thing.

 

[pers0n]

Mac mini and MacBooks with the ability to upgrade ram and storage yourself
iphone that is 4inches

 

[1369281]

Do you know that all fans in a Mac use PWM to control the speed?

I was, of course, talking about PWM for display backlight control purposes, as I specified earlier in my list.

But you already knew that.

 

[gmillhauser]

1) Premium iPhones having a base storage configuration of 128G.
2) MacBook Airs with scissor keyboards.
3) A 32 bit emulator for Catalina.
4) Return of the magsafe charger.

 

[sidewinder3000]

• Fix HomeKit & take it to the next level.
• Fix HomePod issues (networking with multiple speakers, AirPlay issues, robust alarm clock features, fix Siri on HomePod limitations add EQ, etc.)
• New HomePod offerings (smaller speaker, TV speaker, etc.)
• Fix Siri vox recognition and make it best in class (Apple users deserve the best)

 

[toke lahti]

System Preferences>Users&Groups>"Username"-Rightclick User=Advanced Option>Home directory

Warning for people who’d like to use external drives for homedirs:
If your homedir is not in boot drive you’ll get ZERO support from Apple on any os or sw problems and this undocumented switch of diskutil does not work:

Resolve issues caused by changing the permissions of items in your home folder

If you change the read or write permissions of items in your home folder, you might need to reset permissions to avoid certain issues.

support.apple.com

Yep, I bought mini with small ssd to drive just os and idea of running multiple big homedirs from multiple external drives.
The laptop company forgot to tell this in the small print before purchase.
Now the blazing fast internal soldered ssd sits idle and every user has both os & all the apps in their own boot drive wasting a lot of expensive ssd space.
Good thing: in 2030 my mini2018 will be the only one of this model that still have life left in internal ssd. Maybe it will be auctioned for a great sum?

If somebody has real actual experience on handling homedirs on external in Mojave, I’d like to hear.
Might be possible by handling unix user-id’s, but how to create an user with specific id? Through terminal?
Also modern macos is so big mess with security and cloud thingies, apple-id’s, etc., that I guess there might not be a way to use external homedir fully.
On the other hand if you alter unix user-id afterwards, these modern upgrades will most certainly not work. And at these modern times, if you do anything out-of-the-box with macos there will be problems, so most likely not being able to repair permissions will be a problem. I had few thousand mail attachments ”loading...” forever after succesfull migration.
Apple’s business is based on making their products obsolite by small, high priced, soldered internal storage, so I can’t understand how this would ever change. At least as long as macos isn’t separated from Apple, because some antitrust-magic.
Certainly, Apple will never document any official and supported way of using external homedirs.

 

[00sjsl]

iPads and iPhones to be made from stainless steel instead of aluminium.