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What to Expect From Apple in 2019: New iPhones, Modular Mac Pro, iPad mini 5, Updated AirPods and More
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AirPower is going to be ridiculously priced. $159 at least. Most likely $199.
Not sure why anyone cares whether it becomes available or not. It won’t be worth the price.
Not sure why anyone cares whether it becomes available or not. It won’t be worth the price.
I’d like an iPad Mini Pro with 2nd gen pencil support.
I’d also like the gimping and cheap builds to stop. If we’re going to pay more to fund services I have no desire to use, and/or make up for declining sales, at least make the build quality worth the prices.
With existing machines, please fix ongoing problems (T2 chip kernel panics, the keyboards on all laptops, and the irresponsive touch/white spot issues with the iPad Pros).
And allow for returns for manufacturing defects that do not require using AC.
Finally, start treating your customers like gold again. It’s because of us you’re doing so well.
I’d also like the gimping and cheap builds to stop. If we’re going to pay more to fund services I have no desire to use, and/or make up for declining sales, at least make the build quality worth the prices.
With existing machines, please fix ongoing problems (T2 chip kernel panics, the keyboards on all laptops, and the irresponsive touch/white spot issues with the iPad Pros).
And allow for returns for manufacturing defects that do not require using AC.
Finally, start treating your customers like gold again. It’s because of us you’re doing so well.
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Apple is clearly working on AR and VR technologies. Their constant introduction in keynotes of AR games using an iPad or iPhone pointed at a table which are clearly games that are not actually going to be played by large numbers of people has to be for some purpose.
A redesigned Apple TV regardless of form factor would give Apple a chance to reverse what is probably the worst product design of the post SJ era - the Apple TV remote.
It’s on orders of magnitude worse than the short lived round hockey puck mouse. A trackpad just isn’t suitable for a UI that exists entirely on a x/y axis, the scrolling inertia seems to work for only one or two people inside Apple, and I’ve stopped keeping a list of how many times I’ve inadvertently hit the round Siri button instead of the round menu button. The remote isn’t just bad, it’s inexplicably bad.
The sales are in the tank even for the Xr which is $50 cheaper than the 8 Plus was but has a bigger screen. The old style 8 and 8 Plus are selling well.
Apple needs to put out updated Xr / Xs / Max (like they are planning on) but they also need to put out a 9 and 9 Plus (the old style iPhone with updated guts / cameras) as there is a huge chunk of the market that isn't interested in the all glass phone and power buttons that can't turn off the X (and all the other nothing works like it used to, just press these two buttons now gobblygook etc.). JMHO...
Apple needs to put out updated Xr / Xs / Max (like they are planning on) but they also need to put out a 9 and 9 Plus (the old style iPhone with updated guts / cameras) as there is a huge chunk of the market that isn't interested in the all glass phone and power buttons that can't turn off the X (and all the other nothing works like it used to, just press these two buttons now gobblygook etc.). JMHO...
What do I expect in 2019? Much more of this guy doing this.
Kudos to you, Anger! I've appreciated all the hilarious responses you've contributed and looking forward to another year filled with your gifs.
just a lot of people got burned and/or captured in dysfunctional ecosystems i guess
and perhaps a new Mac mini if Apple is going to adopt a more regular upgrade cycle for that machine
ROFLOL!
Apple only updated the Mini because it still had a spinning HD inside. You should expect at least a six year wait before the Mini gets another update.
They should improve Siri – The Artificial Imbecile she is at the moment.
Had a conversation with her (about 10 minutes ago):
Me: Hey Siri, Can you move my tomorrow's reminders from 16 to 1550
Siri: Which reminder shall I update? (talks through them)
Me: Both
Siri: Seems like I cut you off. Can you please repeat that?
Me: Both of them.
Siri: Sorry, I missed that. Which reminder shall I update?
Me: Bold of them.
Siri: I couldn't find any reminders about 'Bold of them' that are due tomorrow.
Me: I say both of them.
Siri: I don't understand 'I say both of them'. But I could search the web for it.
I close Siri, take a deep breath and give it one more try:
Me: Can you finally move my tomorrow's reminders from 16 to 1550.
Siri: Which reminder shall I update?
Me: The first one
Siri: Here's your reminder for tomorrow at 4 PM: (Totally different, irrelevant reminder moved to tomorrow instead of any of those she picked from the list)
Had a conversation with her (about 10 minutes ago):
Me: Hey Siri, Can you move my tomorrow's reminders from 16 to 1550
Siri: Which reminder shall I update? (talks through them)
Me: Both
Siri: Seems like I cut you off. Can you please repeat that?
Me: Both of them.
Siri: Sorry, I missed that. Which reminder shall I update?
Me: Bold of them.
Siri: I couldn't find any reminders about 'Bold of them' that are due tomorrow.
Me: I say both of them.
Siri: I don't understand 'I say both of them'. But I could search the web for it.
I close Siri, take a deep breath and give it one more try:
Me: Can you finally move my tomorrow's reminders from 16 to 1550.
Siri: Which reminder shall I update?
Me: The first one
Siri: Here's your reminder for tomorrow at 4 PM: (Totally different, irrelevant reminder moved to tomorrow instead of any of those she picked from the list)
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I agree, Apple is doing very well at maximising their profits in the near term, but it seems to me that they are trying so hard to fleece people today, rather than build relationships with customers for tomorrow that they are not confident they will be relevant tomorrow at all, they milk their products, the loyalty of their customers and platform buy-in as hard as possible in return for a lot of people bailing on them or disgusted by their practices and feeling trapped on their platforms.
Long term, as a business, we have to move there is no two way around it, short term we are still paying the apple tax begrudgingly.
Just hoping that macOS 10:15 makes it to the 2012 Mac Mini. I'm also interested in the Apple TV service if it's priced right.
*sigh* Right?
Most of my conversation replies using my watch or phone result in some strange word replacements. I don't think I speak with an accent but maybe I do?
Based on my results with Siri, I can't imagine trying to move appointments around or do pretty much anything of importance. You're a brave soul...
Maybe it will, maybe it won't, and either way nobody will care if it's another charging pad.
Charging pads exist. They've existed for years. I have no idea why Apple can't figure out how to build one, but if that's really what AirPower is, this is an indication of a SERIOUS engineering failure at Apple. Inductive charging is not innovative, it's old hat, my toothbrush has done it for the last 15 years.
Now, if Apple has figured out how to efficiently charge my phone and computer from across the room, that would be interesting. But if they release a charging pad after all this hype, they're gonna be a laughing stock.
So much of what Apple has done lately has been indicative of a serious problem in their hardware engineering departments. A Mac mini that was 3 years late, and has soldered storage, when NVMe SSD standards exist, at least they finally figured out how to "innovate" DIMM sockets in there. A shipping iMac that's a year and a half old. A shipping Mac "Pro" that was a joke when it was new and is now over FIVE years old. Calling an idiotically thin laptop with a glued battery, soldered RAM and storage a "Pro" machine, charging insane money to get 4TB storage and only 32GB RAM in it.
And don't even get me started on the stupid headphones and the idiotic (and idiotically expensive) speaker, the headphone jack "courage", and the home button idiocy.
What they did to the server software is an absolute travesty. That probably directly hurt me more than anything else they've done. I have no idea what I'm supposed to sell my clients to replace their aging servers, it's certainly not going to be Windoze boxes, Kerio Connect makes a decent mail/contact/cal server that runs on macOS, but I've got nothing to replace 10.12 that handles Spotlight searching on file shares properly, and I've got less than a year before that gets security updates dropped now. Lawyers (who are most of my clients) aren't comfy with putting their stuff in the "cloud" and Apple's "cloud" solutions stink anyway. It's infuriating, especially when Apple had such a brilliant server hardware/software combo with the XServe/10.6 Server.
Everything that's here that I should be expecting in 2019 is something that should have happened in 2018… or way earlier in some cases.
I don’t understand statements like this, what is it that you’re expecting to be ‘overhauled’ or what new products do you want to see Apple bring?
I mean, they just introduced the AirPods, AirPower And Apple Watch _all_ with in the last three years, all *new* products, two of them being highly successful with the Apple Watch and AirPods. You make it sound like they don’t bring anything to the market, when they clearly did. You’re being a bit exaggerative.
Apple's promised modular Mac Pro for its professional user base is expected to come out in 2019 - 12 months MORE wait time?
AAPL lost $350B in market cap under Tim Cook's so-called Leadership in CY2018 ... why is there NO prediction of his Ouster as CEO from MacRumors ???
IMO, that should be up at the top of the list !
IMO, that should be up at the top of the list !
Hopefully there will be also a new, more decent, keyboard for the MacBookPro...