. streamline all OSs and stop the bloating of them
. make all OSs more user configurable
. focus on bug fixing
. make all OSs more user configurable
. focus on bug fixing
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What Do You Want to See From Apple in 2024?
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An end to the "apple tax" on SSD and RAM increases in build configurations.
Some of us still have those dinosaur Intel Macs we'd like to keep around a little longer, and for those of us that have both Intel and arm64 Macs, maybe a BootCamp alternative from Apple that'll run Windows11 on both our M2/M3s and Intel Macs?
Last Friday, we shared our annual What to Expect Guide that covers everything we're expecting to see from Apple in 2024, based on current rumors and historical product release information.
We're going to see the launch of the Vision Pro early in the year, followed by new OLED iPad Pro models, a new version of the AirPods, an iPad Air in a new size, an Apple Watch that has blood pressure monitoring and sleep detection, and of course, refreshed iPhone 16 models with a host of new features.
While we know what we're expecting to see from Apple in 2024, we want to hear from the MacRumors community. What are you hoping to see Apple release this year?
Are you looking forward to generative AI? Crossing your fingers for new iPhone features? What would you like to see in iOS 18? Will you buy Apple's Vision Pro headset?
Let us know your thoughts in the comments, and take a look at our What to Expect Guide to see an overview of the current rumors. We'll be hearing a lot more about Apple's 2024 product plans in the coming months, and we'll have in-depth coverage at MacRumors.com.
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Mac Mini: 16 GB base RAM / 512 base storage / forward facing SD slot and Thunderbolt port
- 32 inch display with 120Hz and either OLED or MicroLED
- Mac Studio with Thunderbolt 5 controller to support the display
- New peripherals (USB-C, ergonomic mouse)
- Siri on AI steroids
- Mac Studio with Thunderbolt 5 controller to support the display
- New peripherals (USB-C, ergonomic mouse)
- Siri on AI steroids
As a former repairman, I'll always disagree with this obsession many people have.
You really don't want to have a great screen chained forever to an expensive, almost absolutely unrepairable, absolutely non-upgradable motherboard.
Especially now that we reached sizes and resolutions that will never get "outdated" while the Mac part surely will, in 5 to 10 years.
Implement sideloading already…
Idk how people can be against that
Idk how people can be against that
Exciting new software and hardware are just a baked in expectation. What I’d love to see is true signs Apple will improve ordinary ecosystem apps. They make grand claims about the thoughtfulness of this ecosystem and yet neglect it egregiously. They promote this ecosystem as a key reason for Windoze and Google users to migrate to a supposedly better platform. And yet…
Apple’s apps for Contacts, Calendar, and Mail distract our attention from their many flaws by focusing on new shiny distractions (like new emojis) instead of basics. They remain decades behind other similar apps that unfortunately don’t play well in the Apple ecosystem. Leaving us feeling stuck with dregs.
Contacts still has no autofill function and allows for custom fields that are not shareable between users. It is also unstable for larger contact databases, frustrating simple text data entry. This should be and are rudimentary entry level requirements for a database program!
Calendars is miserable at synching between users and likewise has minimal and largely dysfunctional autofill awareness.
Mail’s tools for filtering junk and spam are primitive and ineffective — hint to Apple, this would be a place to focus AI development. If the smaller company, Google, can manage this, one would think that Apple could as well or better but they don’t even try.
Apple also focuses too much on the home user while neglecting small to enterprise business users. My small company of 5 employees has to rely on Google to back up the Contacts, Mail, and Calendar apps to create shared resources as a clunky work around. One that requires expert IT assistance to set up and maintain.
Even iOS violates some of Apple’s own interface standards for keyboard commands and default button actions in dialogs. It also ignores user’s demands for the retune of color in the Finder interface to aid in visually sorting and detecting folders among the plethora that most of us use to maintain organization. When Ive drained the color out of the interface for aesthetic reasons they were never able to articulate why this didn’t violate form vs. function precepts.
In sum, Apple needs to work on living up to its own high standards by devoting some attention to the basics in the ecosystem of ‘Free’ apps they say they want us to love.
Apple’s apps for Contacts, Calendar, and Mail distract our attention from their many flaws by focusing on new shiny distractions (like new emojis) instead of basics. They remain decades behind other similar apps that unfortunately don’t play well in the Apple ecosystem. Leaving us feeling stuck with dregs.
Contacts still has no autofill function and allows for custom fields that are not shareable between users. It is also unstable for larger contact databases, frustrating simple text data entry. This should be and are rudimentary entry level requirements for a database program!
Calendars is miserable at synching between users and likewise has minimal and largely dysfunctional autofill awareness.
Mail’s tools for filtering junk and spam are primitive and ineffective — hint to Apple, this would be a place to focus AI development. If the smaller company, Google, can manage this, one would think that Apple could as well or better but they don’t even try.
Apple also focuses too much on the home user while neglecting small to enterprise business users. My small company of 5 employees has to rely on Google to back up the Contacts, Mail, and Calendar apps to create shared resources as a clunky work around. One that requires expert IT assistance to set up and maintain.
Even iOS violates some of Apple’s own interface standards for keyboard commands and default button actions in dialogs. It also ignores user’s demands for the retune of color in the Finder interface to aid in visually sorting and detecting folders among the plethora that most of us use to maintain organization. When Ive drained the color out of the interface for aesthetic reasons they were never able to articulate why this didn’t violate form vs. function precepts.
In sum, Apple needs to work on living up to its own high standards by devoting some attention to the basics in the ecosystem of ‘Free’ apps they say they want us to love.
Restructure entire iPad lineup.
Don't force people to watch youtube with M3 iPad pro because of the 120hz monopoly, iPad Air deserves to have a good display.
Don't force people to watch youtube with M3 iPad pro because of the 120hz monopoly, iPad Air deserves to have a good display.
Thing is, for most people 60hz is fine, and it does not really matter to them. What does matter, though, is battery life. And what do you get with non-high refresh rate? Better battery life.
While we’re at it:
- allow downgrading to older operating systems
- don’t keep features exclusive to new models
- side loading and alternative app stores without threat of regulation
-eliminate 30% fee
- ….
Simplicity. How does half of this new stuff actually work. Instead of adding new features, how about just showing how lives can be enhanced by features already there.
You 2 must not be macOS users then due to its poor security, what with the ability to
macOS - Security
macOS is designed with powerful, advanced technologies that work together to keep your Mac and built-in apps more private and more secure.
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I’m holding out for M3 MacBook Air (probably 13 inch but maybe 15) and M2 iPad Air (probably the smaller size not 12.9”)
I would like to see Bootcamp for AS Macs with support for Windows 11 on ARM.
I’d like a complete, well implemented, appropriately priced monitor line up. 4k 24 inch, 5k 27 inch, and 6k 32 inch monitors. High quality web cams. Height adjustable. Prices something like $499, $999, and $1499.
Could up charge for fancy coatings or whatever.
With a better monitor lineup there’s less need for iMac Pro
Could up charge for fancy coatings or whatever.
With a better monitor lineup there’s less need for iMac Pro
An end to their outrageous price-gouging would be nice. Starting off "Pro" notebooks with 8gb of RAM and 256gb of SSD and the insane costs to upgrade those two items is wild for 2024.
Tim Cook gone.... I really wish he would retire.
If there was ever someone who was focused just on how can we make things cheaper and get people to climb the product ladder, it was him. Lets let our computers languish until half our customers leave until we can launch our own chips, instead of hey lets keep up in the meantime. Hey look, these keyboards keep failing, lets keep trying to make it work. Hey, lets not license patents...to the point we need to pull our products off of shelves. I know, lets keep including 8GB of ram on our e-waste, it will make us look cheaper and force people to purchase a new machine sooner. Lets make our iPad line so hard to compare from one device to another. How about we reinvent ourselves like GE did into a financial services company. Lets pour millions (billions?) into something we aren't even remotely connected to and isn't in our wheelhouse (literally), lets build a car. Oh yeah, bugs? We don't need to fix no stinking bugs... give them more emojis.
If there was ever someone who was focused just on how can we make things cheaper and get people to climb the product ladder, it was him. Lets let our computers languish until half our customers leave until we can launch our own chips, instead of hey lets keep up in the meantime. Hey look, these keyboards keep failing, lets keep trying to make it work. Hey, lets not license patents...to the point we need to pull our products off of shelves. I know, lets keep including 8GB of ram on our e-waste, it will make us look cheaper and force people to purchase a new machine sooner. Lets make our iPad line so hard to compare from one device to another. How about we reinvent ourselves like GE did into a financial services company. Lets pour millions (billions?) into something we aren't even remotely connected to and isn't in our wheelhouse (literally), lets build a car. Oh yeah, bugs? We don't need to fix no stinking bugs... give them more emojis.
The devil you know...
There is little guarantee than his successor will be any different.
Burn anything that still uses Lightning by the end of the week and drop the anticompetitive nonsense.