To be fair, judging by his comment, I’m betting he doesn’t have one and is just spouting off instead. No one makes you use Face ID, no one makes you watch videos full-screen including the notch, and my limited experience with the phone suggests it’s substantially grippier than the old metal frames.
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Year in Review: Everything Apple Introduced in 2017
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And one of the most exciting features in iOS 11 is the complete breakdown of being able to reliably sync large photo libraries to your iOS device especially the iPad (any model). Instead of being able to sync an 18,000 pic library to your iPad in one session as with iOS 10.x.x, one can now do it in maybe 20 sessions if one is feeling lucky.
It's a cult-like following. Nothing is seen as wrong. Business as usual as the cult continues to buy. Look at Waco. lol
Yeah, it’s just too bad 2017 ended on a sour note for Apple with cooling X sales and the battery/performance throttling fiasco which wouldn’t be so bad now if they were just a little more transparent. It’s a good that Apple is taking responsibility now and hopefully they won’t do something else in the future that will erode the trust of their customers. Just be honest and transparent. Don’t leave your customers in the dark when you change the behavior of their devices negatively without saying a word. You’ll lose their confidence and trust if you force them to fumble in the dark looking for answers. Explain and offer options/alternatives if possible.
"Both the 10.5 and 12.9-inch iPad Pro are amazingly powerful and can serve as PC replacements with A10X Fusion chips and 4GB RAM."
Is that you, Phil?
Thought I had mentioned one of the most basic issue with that statement 2 weeks ago already in another thread.
Is that you, Phil?
Thought I had mentioned one of the most basic issue with that statement 2 weeks ago already in another thread.
I can't count the times I have needed HDMI or regular USB 3.0 in the last 4 months. I can, however, count the times I needed USB-C. ZERO!
And Homepod, it will have freakin Siri!! Enough said but come on! Ask it something and you get nothing! Siri finally can understand what I'm saying, but the search results are fn useless.. How many years are they behind google now??
Now Google Home is an interesting product, and with google's voice assistance, it really adds value. Homepod may be amount sound, but can it really compare to Google Home from a utility perspective? I cringe when I have to use Siri..
Personally, Tim cook can shove siri with his 10k apple watch, and other hardware crap that he has produced. Lastly, to get back on topic, I shouldn't have my Iphone throttled when my battery is not under 80% working capacity (apple's definition of not working correctly). Apple should then advertise the processor speed is only available within the first couple of months.
I think Apple Hardware has gone down hill, and short term profits and fashion is definitely put ahead of quality, innovation, and usefulness!
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today's apple doesn't care about innovations as well as users, the most important for them is to harvest $, nothing else
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I just disagree here.
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many would disagree with your explanation. period
some apple users will be happy with whatever you put in their hands, that's just reality
What's wrong? All machines were easily upgradable before. Now they close to limit your options. It's a bad marketing.
Look at the Surface Studio. You can tilt your monitor, it is touchscreen and much better design than the iMac.
iMac design has not been changed for many many years. They are stuck on time.
Furthermore, if you are paying $5k for an iMac Pro you should be easily able to upgrade the RAM.
Somtimes you start small and you add as you need. You cannot do that in the iMac PRO...What a joke...
I’ve been quite pleased overall with Apple’s offerings this year.
I’ve bought the iPhone X, iPad Pro 10.5 and series 3 Apple Watch cellular. All were upgrades on older devices.
I’ve bought the iPhone X, iPad Pro 10.5 and series 3 Apple Watch cellular. All were upgrades on older devices.
You truthfully don't have an understanding what stock value actually means and how it correlates to Apples success.
So you're criticizing Apple for not making their machines as upgradable, but then you champion the Surface Studio, which is tied to the PC equivalent of a quad-core Mac Mini, costs $4200 for a half-way decent CPU/GPU, and can't be used with another computer as a display? That's some twisted logic right there.
You can buy a 27" Wacom Cintiq Touch for $2400, or the touch-less model (because touch isn't necessary if you mount it on a $75 Ergotron arm) for $1900. That leaves you with up to $2225 to buy/upgrade a much better spec Mac or PC to attach it to. Not to mention that you'll be able to move it between machines at will.
Plus I've demoed the Surface Studio in a Microsoft store, and it's drawing accuracy compared to a Wacom of the same size is laughable. Just try and draw a straight line with a ruler. I dare you. It's a toy, not a professional tool.
The technical details do matter, because the Surface Studio fails hard as an artist's tool compared to a 27" Wacom. Both because of the VERY inaccurate pen technology used, and because you can only ever use it with the box that comes built-in to it at its base. As an investment, it's horrible compared to the alternatives.
Design is not just about making something look cool or interesting. It's also about the user experience, and a device's ability to get tasks done. I don't exclude Apple from this criticism (touch-bar anyone?), but I see more purpose in what they do than Microsoft, who just seem to push out "interesting" but barely usable gadgets on a regular basis.