Will Apple Launch New Hardware at WWDC Next Week?

[Macbookey]

Ok, personally I have nothing against Craig, he even have some good humor, at times.
But if that doesn't hit folks right, ah well.
Shadows are casted on a lot of people at Apple from the top at the moment.
Apple are nothing more then some products I need, that's all. The company is irrelevant to me.

More along the lines of software quality and the lack thereof. The decline has been in step with the Cook era and Craig as software SVP. I’m grateful for some great features along the way and the recent state of hardware. Like you said, it’s about the products we need and the company being irrelevant, and that describes where I’m at perfectly as well. Hard to forget when it was a lot more exciting though. Events feel less human.

 

[Lioness~]

More along the lines of software quality and the lack thereof. The decline has been in step with the Cook era and Craig as software SVP. I’m grateful for some great features along the way and the recent state of hardware. Like you said, it’s about the products we need and the company being irrelevant, and that describes where I’m at perfectly as well. Hard to forget when it was a lot more exciting though. Events feel less human.

Ok, Apple is mostly a bunch of crap today....
With one exception, I really like the evolvement of the M-chips, so without Johny Srouji and his team, I'm not sure I stiill had been into Apple at all anymore.
All the home-related stuff I got rid of, and I hate Siri, and have no intension to use it again.
I rather prefer Gemini without Siri, with some ChatGPT at times

We'll see if and how Apple gets better with Ternus, when Crook sits in the borard and ☣ -sining Apple from there.

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

Don't bother, hardware really isn't the problem.

 

[switz]

Most of the time the hardware has ranged from barely okay to good. The hardware needs software and firmware to operate and do something or anything actually. The problem is no spare on the Apple car and one tire is nearly flat with cracked sidewalls. The duct tape on the soft tire is no longer holding in the air. When the tire goes flat (software becomes useless) then the car goes off the road out of control.

Time for an etch-a-sketch moment on all operating systems. A fresh rewrite would make sure all of the Intel processor code is gone, and the feature set of the "M" and "A" processors is properly implemented. Just too many bandaids on the old code.

 

[rafark]

Listening to the latest Dithering podcast with John Gruber and Ben Thompson, Ben noted that Apple traditionally only has executives "on stage" at the WWDC keynote if they have something to present. As John Ternus is still Senior VP of Hardware Engineering, he would be present only if there were new Macs to announce. And yet, as the next CEO of Apple, you are going to want him presenting during the keynote.

So I think Apple could pull a page from the Mac Pro playbook and announce the Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra, but note it will not ship until the end of the year. They might also announce the Mac mini with the same caveat.

Every wwdc I keep hoping for another can’t innovate anymore my ass moment. I love Mac hardware and the wwdc is my favorite keynote.