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What Do You Want to See From Apple in 2022?
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This x1000. Tim Apple and Craig F need to focus on two words— Quality Control
YIKES!
to even imagine that the "notch" just made a big comeback last year (a couple of months ago to be precise) as debut on mac
I’m on the iPad Pro 11” 2020 and am waiting for the display upgrade to mini-LED or OLED. If it’s still compatible with my Magic Keyboard, I’ll buy in a heartbeat…and they really should make it compatible so they don’t waste all those Magic Keyboards….
Better SW QA, bugs will be inevitable but the QA needs improvement.
Monitors would be nice, affordable ones that is
Kill the Apple car project, been going on for way too long
Monitors would be nice, affordable ones that is
Kill the Apple car project, been going on for way too long
but wait, I thought the notch is coming to the watch??? /s
Greater emphasis on security and privacy. Not in terms of marketing, it is easy to produce slogans and sentences which promise much. In real and effective design and implementation from the ground up. In knowing that reports of breaches are addressed as quickly as possible. In seeing Apple identifying issues ahead of customers and, most importantly, ahead of those who would exploit them.
A new mouse that is designed for human hands, with actual clickable buttons (or haptic feedback), scroll wheel and a USB-C charging port with a placement designed by someone who actually uses a mouse. And while you're at it: offer it in matching M1 iMac colors (plus space grey for those who love that color).
I want to get into VR but I don't want to get into Oculus, which is Meta, which is Facebook, which is evil. Unfortunately it looks like they're winning the market share. I hope Apple releases a worthy competitor.
I think my wishes are simple, but Apple won’t make us happy with any of them:
No annual OS releases, just focus on quality and security.
iPhone SE 3 and iPad 8 with more RAM. I think all the specs in the current devices are good enough except the RAM.
Upgradable Macs. The tight integration has benefits, but one should always be able to at least upgrade the RAM and SSD.
More bezels! “***** are you thinking”, “it’s 2022, not 1984”. Well, the bezels all have a function. Lots of games don’t play well on bezel-less iPads and on the Mac we get that fugly notch. Let’s go back to functional design. Not minimal design.
Fix the macOS music app. Many people did complain about iTunes, but it’s replacement is a complete abomination. Just to mention a few things:
- Doesn’t have the filter search
- New playlists are always created with the playlist view instead of the ‘song’-view
- Playlists are hardly visible due to the artwork and name on top of it unless you have a 2560x5120 screen (it’s better in Monterey than Big Sur, but I want to be gone).
- You can only hide Apple Music via Parental Controls now, I don’t want subscriptions for music, never.
- No more library XML available on the fly, the replacement API is lacking a lot functions.
No annual OS releases, just focus on quality and security.
iPhone SE 3 and iPad 8 with more RAM. I think all the specs in the current devices are good enough except the RAM.
Upgradable Macs. The tight integration has benefits, but one should always be able to at least upgrade the RAM and SSD.
More bezels! “***** are you thinking”, “it’s 2022, not 1984”. Well, the bezels all have a function. Lots of games don’t play well on bezel-less iPads and on the Mac we get that fugly notch. Let’s go back to functional design. Not minimal design.
Fix the macOS music app. Many people did complain about iTunes, but it’s replacement is a complete abomination. Just to mention a few things:
- Doesn’t have the filter search
- New playlists are always created with the playlist view instead of the ‘song’-view
- Playlists are hardly visible due to the artwork and name on top of it unless you have a 2560x5120 screen (it’s better in Monterey than Big Sur, but I want to be gone).
- You can only hide Apple Music via Parental Controls now, I don’t want subscriptions for music, never.
- No more library XML available on the fly, the replacement API is lacking a lot functions.
Go back to a once every two or three years for a major OS update for the Mac. Nobody really does any real work on a phone so it doesn't matter as much how crappy iOS is, but people use the Mac to do real work and need an OS that isn't constantly being yanked around every year just to keep on the same cycle as iOS. Once they have a bit of a breather between versions of macOS they can start doubling down on fixing all the bugs that are introduced as they try to make it more like iOS.
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Apple Silicon iMac Pro replacement (either another iMac Pro or a lower-cost Mac Pro at a similar price point).
Less expensive Apple Pro Display and one with a camera (to better accomodate work from home; no need for a separate device).
An iPhone 14 Pro such that with the case on, it can lay flat once more. Every iPhone I've owned (except for the iPhone 13 Pro) can lay flat. Absolutely hate the lip around the camera housing.
AirPods Pro with bettery battery life. Though I don't think we'll get to 6 hours or more of talk time anytime soon on such a small device. Or... AirPods Max weighing far less than the original version.
Less expensive Apple Pro Display and one with a camera (to better accomodate work from home; no need for a separate device).
An iPhone 14 Pro such that with the case on, it can lay flat once more. Every iPhone I've owned (except for the iPhone 13 Pro) can lay flat. Absolutely hate the lip around the camera housing.
AirPods Pro with bettery battery life. Though I don't think we'll get to 6 hours or more of talk time anytime soon on such a small device. Or... AirPods Max weighing far less than the original version.
An iMac with height adjustment for better ergonomics (I want the current model to go lower before anyone suggests putting books under the stand).
An affordable monitor with height adjustment and preferably a squarer aspect ratio (something similar to the iPad at 4:3 would be ideal, same goes for the iMac).
Less nagging from macOS, iOS, etc. (no nagging is a large part of why I switched from Windows in the first place back in the Tiger days).
And as an iOS developer, the option to disable Reachability for an app (swiping actions in a game are basically unusable unless the user decides to turn it off Reachability at the system level, which they may not want to do as it is a good feature for some apps, see Apple Arcade game Threes as an example of how bad it can be).
An affordable monitor with height adjustment and preferably a squarer aspect ratio (something similar to the iPad at 4:3 would be ideal, same goes for the iMac).
Less nagging from macOS, iOS, etc. (no nagging is a large part of why I switched from Windows in the first place back in the Tiger days).
And as an iOS developer, the option to disable Reachability for an app (swiping actions in a game are basically unusable unless the user decides to turn it off Reachability at the system level, which they may not want to do as it is a good feature for some apps, see Apple Arcade game Threes as an example of how bad it can be).
For this new MacBook Air, I wish there was at least a model with black bezels and black keyboard.
I still very much like the yearly releases since as a developer, this gives us improved/new APIs. e.g. they can continue to focus on API parity between AppKit/UIKit and SwiftUI.
But for the vast majority of users, Apple could indeed choose just to focus on quality and security for a particular OS release.
OLED Displays for the iPhone 14 Series without PWM!
A half size and half-price Mac Pro with Apple Silicon. That's it!
A Mac Mini with a Pro or Max chip.
A mini-LED iMac
An improved keyboard in iOS 16 (looking at Android phones at Best Buy the other day showed me how far behind the iPhone keyboard is)
An improved Music app for macOS, not just under-the-hood but the entire UI should be reworked
A mini-LED iMac
An improved keyboard in iOS 16 (looking at Android phones at Best Buy the other day showed me how far behind the iPhone keyboard is)
An improved Music app for macOS, not just under-the-hood but the entire UI should be reworked
A higher-end Apple Silicon Mac Mini using the M1 Pro chip or similar, or even the rumored "Mac Pro Cube." (An M1 Max would be nice, but for my needs the M1 Pro would be just fine, with 32 GB of unified memory.)
Preach!
27" 4k @ $1k $4k with stand +$500 nano
30" 5k @ $2k with stand +$500 nano
32" 6k XDR @ $4k with stand +$500 nano