Agreed. There will be a lot of cry babies on the forum after the update. First thing will be said is, "I waited for months and months and all Apple did was upgrade the processor?"" I'm pissed at Apple for the retarded update". "What? No GPU Update". "What a joke, I've Waited Forever, I'm Going Back to Windows".
The same annoying crying happens every update. It's not Apple's fault, it's the consumer's because they make up in their minds what the update will be and it's never like that.
Perhaps apple should pay more attention to their paying loyal customers, can understand how peoples gripes about most apple products are silly because they are entry level products, but pro consumer products really need to incorporate the features that the people want.
I dont really have much to gripe about, just features id like to see really, but seems to me in later years apple is focusing energy on high profit services lately rather than the hardware which may serve customers well on normal products but not so much in the pro lines when customers really need cutting/bleeding edge technology. The services benefit apple by providing renewable high margin monthly income rather than lump sums every now and then from a apple product purchase per individual customer. iTunes seems to be getting the most attention along with their iPhone which at least IMHO i think is too pricey even for a monthly contract, then again i stand reserved in the fact that i have never been interest in contracts as im a PAYG customer.
Never the less, apple started out as a home solutions company, providing a working solution of hardware and software that worked well together and usually for their time provided what the customers wanted.
But these later years what with windows stagnating and not really doing anything whatsoever that it never did 10-15 years ago. Hardware manufacturers have only had hardware to differentiate their products and so they really try to push the boundaries of performance, at least in individual components, i know most dont provide a decent all in one solution but PC Hobbyists can always choose the hardware they want.
Apple usually give the MBP pretty high spec hardware upon each release but theres always something NVidia or ATI are proudly showing off that you wished was in there along with other releases or Intel processors that sometimes push the boundaries a bit beyond what was chosen for the MBP at the time of its release.
I think when you look at how a lot of releases in recent years have been quiet upgrades the conferences steve hosts usually focuses on the software and what monthly or even PAYG service they can get you hooked on (iTunes, iphone/touch SW upgrades for map, video rentals, 3cost ringtones if you never paid for it from itunes, movie rentals that dont discount from purchase [try before you buy as rentals?], £35 a month iphone contract, .Mac accounts.).
