A 32 inch quantum dot OLED screen with a 5K+ resolution with Thunderbolt 4 that works well with my MacBook Pro please 🤓.
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What Do You Want to See From Apple in 2024?
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Apple TV set with built in soundbar, FaceTime and Siri. Remote has Touch ID that unlocks into personal profiles.
I think the timers are better now with more density in the app. However the alarms app is a mess and the timer widget should be reverted back to how it was in watchOS 9
as someone involved with Apple at the outset, and who liaised with Steve, Chuck Gheschke and Tim Berners-Lee you really do have it so wrong. Steve saved Apple, no doubt about it. Tim is a marketeer not an innovator, but you can't knock his marketing skills, but for me the essence of Apple was and still is Steve. Before that Apple computers were not really that usable as productive devices and certainly not for home business users or even DTP.
Steve recognised there needed to be more usability, and his altercation with Apple, which Apple came to rue, left him to develop NeXT where credit should also go to Chuck Geschke a non Apple guy who saw the market needed a WYSIWYG potential that previously was not being served, even with a GUI.
Chuck produced a program that received little attention from many, but certainly provoked interest from Steve, as that program was PostScript and by introducing vectored graphics with a true WYSIWYG potential Steve decided to incorporate display postscript into his NeXT OS and his computer, where although his computer wasn't deemed a marketing success, the whole system is in my opinion one of the most definitive moments in Apple's history.
Apple realised the error of their ways and had to pay Steve around $429,000,000 to get him and his creation back to Apple, and where NeXT OS went on to be apple's operating system, and even with improvements, the basis of OS today.
It really is mis stating history to suggest Apple would not exist without Tim Cook, as it did exist and was thriving after Steve's return.
Ironically even the film industry mis stated Steve's persona suggesting he was aggressive etc., when simply not true. He was passionate, which shone through with every communication we had! Chuck too had that same passion spark, and headed up Adobe and I had the pleasure of speaking with Chuck also on many occasions way back.
I was just going to say the M3 Ultra Studio to replace my M2 - but I would love to see much better text replacement and grammar checking in macOS. Currently it’s a bit rubbish, and I see no reason why it shouldn’t be best in class, with Apple’s vast resources.
I want a 27'' (or bigger) iMac. I have a 2017 27'' iMac and I really really don't want to go to a smaller screen one.
It's also uncommon in the industry for their base models to cost so much. Silly comment to make when you're not comparing like for like.
no more price hikes 
upgrade base RAM and storage for macs. 8GB is a joke. 18GB should be minimum for air/imac/14" pro and 16" Pro, Studio, etc models should start at 36GB.
more time spent fixing bugs in iOS. i wouldn't mind if they only released a new major iOS update every 2 years. it'd give them more time and make it more exciting since major updates don't really add much these days.
upgrade base RAM and storage for macs. 8GB is a joke. 18GB should be minimum for air/imac/14" pro and 16" Pro, Studio, etc models should start at 36GB.
more time spent fixing bugs in iOS. i wouldn't mind if they only released a new major iOS update every 2 years. it'd give them more time and make it more exciting since major updates don't really add much these days.
that'd be nice to have. i was waiting for a 27" iMac but of course it never appeared so decided to just stick with my desktop PC. i was so tempted to get the 24" iMac but i'm not going for a smaller screen. maybe by the time my PC is out dated Apple will finally release a 27" iMac.
i waited long enough for the 15" Air lol. Now i don't need to buy the stupid expensive overkill 16" Pro just to have a larger screen.
1. Generative AI - this will be truly useful when baked into the OS. As a separate app, it's but a niche product.
2. The return of skeuomorphic design - I'm tired of flat, boring designs and not knowing what is clickable and what is not. I hope Apple brings back depth and a sense of fun with the UI design.
3. Riding off the back of 3, in general I would LOVE to see Apple return to embracing the human interface guidelines they themselves wrote. All Apple products would improve significantly by this one change alone.
2. The return of skeuomorphic design - I'm tired of flat, boring designs and not knowing what is clickable and what is not. I hope Apple brings back depth and a sense of fun with the UI design.
3. Riding off the back of 3, in general I would LOVE to see Apple return to embracing the human interface guidelines they themselves wrote. All Apple products would improve significantly by this one change alone.
Oh man.. where to begin.
- A new mouse; one that has TWO or more buttons and that can be charged when used.
- Ditch everything that is Lightning. Face it, USB-C won and its time to adopt. Today.
- A new iPhone that has two cameras on opposite sides (top bottom) spaced 68mm apart, so that when its held horizontally (as you should when filming!) , it can record stereoscopic video to be viewed in Apple vision.
- A 27" iMac to bridge the gap between a 24" iMac and the mac mini/Studio + Studio Display combo (or a cheaper Studio display)
- Simplify line ups. Apple has 3 iPads of the same size, three pencils, three air pods, 6 different watches, etc. etc. Its just confusing.
- Solve moronic bugs like the in-ability to remove sound from the Photos widget, or the differences in volume between various functions on iOS 15 / iPhone 15.
- A new Music app. One that can allow you to create smart playlists on the devices and allows you to SORT the playlists on the devices and KEEP those settings.
- Major revamp to Apple Photos, so that you can create albums that can be sorted by date, by title, keywords, and you that you can share individual albums - also to people who don't use iCloud - basically upgrade it to a pro-sumer tool instead of the bottom scraping travesty it is now. (a Lightroom/Aperture light, if you will)
- Same upgrade to iMovie. When is the last time new functions were added to that? When can you add more than two video tracks?
- New interface for Apple Home and make it sync better with Shortcuts. (Why is it still complicated to have a "toggle" switch? - a single button for setting scene on/off requires a workaround. In 2023/4.)
- Ditch dumb names like the Apple TV and Apple Photos. How easy is it to google problems with a specific item like Apple TV when the name is so generic? is it a problem with Apple TV the device, Apple TV the app or Apple TV+ as in the provider?
I want Apple to focus on bug fixes / quality assurance for macOS. It reached its peak in Snow Leopard and seems like they haven't been as focused on proper usability or stability since then. This was macOS's strength and lately it's felt just a little too much like Vista.
I want the iPhone mini to return.
I want notches and dynamic islands to go away and return to an era of proper rectangular displays.
I want the iPhone mini to return.
I want notches and dynamic islands to go away and return to an era of proper rectangular displays.
8GB is no joke for Timmy!no more price hikes
upgrade base RAM and storage for macs. 8GB is a joke. 18GB should be minimum for air/imac/14" pro and 16" Pro, Studio, etc models should start at 36GB.
more time spent fixing bugs in iOS. i wouldn't mind if they only released a new major iOS update every 2 years. it'd give them more time and make it more exciting since major updates don't really add much these days.
He makes a lot of money on the added RAM, that customers pay extra for, you bet.
It’s serious business for Timmy's Apple.
But a shame for customers, a lot of his business are.
Reading this thread, don’t we all wish Steve would come back and makes all well for customers again 😇
Timmy would be fired or kept locked in somewhere to just do boring calculations instead.
But Tim will step down in a future not too far, we can always hope that next CEO will stop with this pettiness, and value customers a bit more then Timmy do. He only value shareholders.
A CEO that can find some better balance might be better in the long run. Some person that doesn’t have to prove how good he is to make money for the company, but some guy with a broader vision then so.
regrets on removing audio jack from phones and tablets; yes, this year we have iphone, some ipads, and all macs supporting usb-c, so, in a way, just after 10 years ability to use wired head phones is back. at least, thank you, EU, for that 😅
Fractional UI scaling, or failing that a large enough frame buffer on at least one version of the Mini to downscale the Samsung G95NC to 150%.
So 100% in agreement with this. Competitors offer higher refresh rates for years now. "Pro" products should differentiate in CPU/GPU and Ports.
My takes:
- Walk back the exorbitant upgrade pricing ladder for memory and storage. Apple is dealing with lower Mac revenues year over year and I think this is partially because people are getting more conscious of pricing. Stop ripping off customers with 4X-6X the price of what you'd normally pay for memory or storage. Keep the pricing ladder focused on differentiation between the M, M Pro, M Max and M Ultra, not the upgrading storage or memory for the selected CPU/GPU tier.
- Make Mac a more serious gaming platform. I think this is primarily about getting first-party developers on board (perhaps even acquire studios and their portfolio, or sign time-exclusivity deals), similar to how Apple is investing in Apple TV+ originals.
Secondarily, it would be great to see an M3 Pro equipped AppleTV-like box that comes with an Apple game controller focused on gaming. Allow third-party controllers.
Lastly, make it more attractive to gaming studios to release games on the Apple Store by reducing the price to 15% regardless of their revenues, which in return will provide users with the benefit of buying a single game, which then works across different Apple hardware for their entire family. - Introduce a decent Apple mouse. Since the original iMac it seems as if Apple isn't capable of delivering a usable, productive mouse. Macs are still shipped with a terrible mouse: a glass-like surface that feels gross and is way too thin for your wrists, with buttons providing zero tactical feedback. The mouse is still designed around a single button (unless you configure it differently). Apple needs to get rid of these ****** mice, and replace it with an ergonomic 1st class mouse that is charged through USB on the rear of the mouse (not the backside).
- Introduce a HomePod device that is a true Home Center. It would be great to have a quality speaker that uses industry standards to connect to your TV (also through HDMI) to replace a TV Sound Bar and also supports adding more to the mix. The display should be configurable: display Homekit buttons to control light or whatever smart apparatus. Perhaps even a camera view for doorbells.
- Obliterate Siri, and introduce Siri 2. Let's be honest, Siri is a disaster, only good for controlling devices. I would be great for Apple to introduce an LLM-based Siri 2 that interacts like ChatGPT would. It should be easy to discover what it supports (right now, it's hard to understand what it can do for you) and build a personal profile based on whoever is speaking. It should adapt its responses to you (e.g be very brief with person A, or more elaborate with person B). It should run on-device on relative new devices, unless it needs to process more difficult tasks or require internet access. Perhaps Apple should even introduce a dedicated "Siri chip" to offload processing.
- Introduce APIs to iCloud services. It is ridiculous that no third-party apps can ask access to my Photos for the purpose of syncing them (nor other apps such as Notes), with the purpose of backing them up, or feeding my library. This locks me in to Apple's ecosystem and not allow for true backups outside the Apple ecosystem. The current solutions are not real 'syncing' causing all kinds of issues.
- Fix the iPad range. Personally I find the iPad Pro a terrible product in how it's positioned. It costs as much, if not more, as a Mac laptop but provides a surrogate version of macOS. In contrast, the regular iPad is amazing for families or creatives alike. The solution IMHO is to position the iPad not as a macOS like-replacement, but as a device for "Light Computing ++", which means not even trying to turn it into macOS but also means to keep the price below the $800-$900 range. Get rid of the absurd 64gb floor.