Apple decides glossy, all the crazed Apple apologists proclaim: "Best ever!" "Great Apple, I love you!" "Everything just...pops!" "I don't know why everyone else is whining, you aren't their market!"
Typical crap. They could release the iTurd as the new iPod and everyone would say it is the best. "It smells like Steve Jobs himself!"
Hey no problem (can't tell if that is sarcasm, i dont really care either way).
My problem with this is that all of a sudden Apple decides to chance pace and it is garnered as the best thing ever. Those people then completely ignore those who have complaints. They say "you just haven't used it, so you don't know."
Glossy is meant to make things pop for the consumer. The people who like shiny over saturated things. Comparing a 24" to my matte 24" LCD both calibrated in the same way, I can tell the print coming from the 24" is very over-saturated. This has been documented at dpreview as well. Now of course some will still like that, but not being able to consistently trust my display is not something I want to do.
You should direct that to everyone attempting to push the "glossy is better" agenda. Also, the people who deny problems with their machines to protect the Apple image, that would work for them too.
In addition, I don't see where he attempted to generalize the opinion of the new iMac. He did offer a statistic, which I would say is pretty accurate. They could have offered a new iMac styled like it is now sans the glass. I personally wouldn't want to use my computer through a window which is the impression i get when on a new iMac.
When did you get so bitter? You've been on this site for awhile now, and so have I and I feel like I would have noticed you being such a confrontational know-it-all by now. (It's not just this thread, you've been like this in every post I've read of yours in the last month or so). I've NEVER been an Apple apologist. I have long criticized Apple for the way they treat the mini, their lack of a midrange tower, the absurd pricing of their LCDs (although, they have come pretty far in that department), their poor judgment (in my opinion) in focusing on the iPod/iPhone over the Mac... just about everything. I was very leery of this glass over the LCD business. Then I went and looked at them side by side. Two factory default out of the box iMacs from each generation, in the same place at the same time and, for the normal person, I think Apple made the right call.
One thing I NEVER did was criticize other people's judgement about what Apple is doing or their products. I might hate the mini (or at least what Apple has done/failed to do with it) but there are thousands of people who think it's just the greatest machine they've ever seen. I might think the iPhone is an overpriced, piece of vendor locked crap, but if someone has one and they feel like it was worth every dollar they spent then great for them, it's
not for me to decide that for them.
EVERYONE has said that this is going to make the iMac less suitable for design work. There's no question in that. The colors DO look over saturated. The 6-bit panel is not going to let you match colors perfectly. It's not a professional grade tool. But, for the rest of us, which probably account for 80%+ of the iMac market it's a nice product.
Your mocking of "consumers who like over saturated and shiny things" is just assinine. Some people (MOST people) aren't interested in perfectly realistic color accuracy. They want hyper realistic images that look great. It's not stupid of them to want something that LOOKS good even if it's not functionally the best possible solution. It's not stupid for them to want something that is visually exciting. If everyone was like you, we'd all drive station wagons that get 50mpg and had a 0-60 time of 15 seconds and use Dell's with Windows NT4. Ya, that's probably the most practical choice, but it's NOT the best answer for all of us.
Apple blew it with this generation of iMac. There was no reason to change a perfectly good working design. They would have continued to sell more Macs than ever had the display remained the same. Instead, some potential customers have decided not to buy or upgrade.
The display is indeed a problem. No one was complaining about the display prior to the latest iMac. Now for every new owner who likes the AL Mac you find one other non-owner who hates the display and won't buy the machine. We didn't have this complaint in the white iMac era.
No, YOU THINK Apple has blown it. I did NOT like the old iMac. I had an iMac G5 for about two weeks before I dumped it for a G4 mini, which was a pretty decent machine for it's time and price. The new iMac, though, is the first Mac I've been excited about since I bought my iBook in 2004. I'm willing to bet that the 50/50 split of iMac glossy screen haters is greatly out of proportion on this board. It's like taking the 1 in 5 posts about a machine are because it's broken as meaning that 20% of all those machines are defective. Normal people in the real world are going to like it, as long as they don't happen to have a bright light behind them.
Is it the best thing ever? It probably would have been safer to stick with the matte screens. No one was complaining, you're right. But no one was raving over it either. I think that the glossy screens will be decisive, but there WILL be people who love it along with those who hate it. Maybe Apple will offer a matte option at some point like they did for the MBP, but until then it is what it is, and MANY of you need to remember that your opinion isn't the final word on whether something is good or bad, and that even if someone is crazy enough to like something that a company who is famously successful for making products that people love that they're not "fanboys" or "Apple apologists".
Finally, for all of you who are SO concerned with color accuracy and the glossy display on the iMac, stop using LCDs. Go buy a high end 21" CRT monitor and calibrate it correctly so you can get your perfect color matched prints because you'll never get there with an LCD anyways. Then maybe the rest of us can get on enjoying, or at least making the best of, the new iMac.
