While there is a point of diminishing returns I can tell you that Apple easily has the resources to update the Mac if they chose to do so. Despite it being such a wealthy company their product line is fairly small. The major categories being iPhones, iPads, Macs, subscription content, and other. Companies like HP and GE have drastically larger product offerings and they have less capital resources than Apple.
I can't help but read the typo in the title as "Ive gives up" - which might be a very good thing for the Mac.
If so, I'll need to update the "Mac Pro tombstone" avatar to say "macOS", or "OSX", or just "Mac".
Yeah, or you know maybe try and release current models more than once every few years like every single serious PC manufacturer!
Comon lol, you can get THE best filemanagers on windows, like total commander or XYplorer, don't use explorer for any real work, it's hard to get anything nearly as good on mac (currently using Commander one on macOS)
And that's the thing - many of us who are hanging on with macOS and some collection of Mac hardware would prefer to stay with macOS and Apple hardware IF Apple decides to build hardware we can (and want to) use. If/when it becomes clear that Apple's future hardware and OS plans are aimed at sealed boxes and tightly walled gardens, many of us will say some bad words and just go back to the Linux/Windows world we had been living with before Apple got the training wheels off of OS X in the early 2000s. There truly is no perfect, but what's so annoying is that Apple could get pretty close to that for many of us, and around Snow Leopard it was looking very promising. Then Steve got sick and Ivy's star rose, and here we are. We all know how to find our own sweet spot, be it Apple+macOS or DIYbox+Linux/Windows, and Apple has under a year to piss or get off the pot.
I don’t even know where to begin with this nonsense. The Macintosh, released in 1984, was a “sealed box” too. If anything, more sealed than the current Mac Pro that people continue to bash. The iMac Pro is much closer in essence to Steve’s original Mac than some box designed to be opened and modified. Additionally, the expandable boxes Apple made for years were highly proprietary. It’s not as though one could ever go out and buy some graphics card off the shelf and stick it in a Mac. Apple licensed a limited number of compatible accessories. It has always been a “walled garden” and so any warm feelings you have of Apple’s past come from that walled garden. It is absolutely asinine to suggest that Intel-based Macs of 2018 are somehow in a walled garden but the Power PC towers weren’t, for example. Also, High Sierra is infinitely more advanced than Snow Leopard, sorry. It just is. Snow Leopard was fantastic for the day, but it’s obsolete. Things change. What great Snow Leopard feature are you missing? The file system alone in High Sierra and it’s optimization for SSDs makes a huge difference.
Feeling is mutual. You saw a negative comment about Apple and read into it what you wanted, not what I said. My point is that Apple is at a fork in the road where one fork is towards more software walled garden (as in iOS) and, yes as in olden days, sealed-box hardware, the other fork towards continuing to have an open OS and having at least one product line offering more open hardware FOR THOSE WHO WANT/NEED IT. I have been very happy with Apple hardware since I started buying it in the early 2000s (no, I'm not a purist who's owned Apple since the first product out of Woz's garage) and was happy with OS X up until Lion, become less happy starting around Mavericks. Yes, there are still some fine ideas leaking out at times, APFS will likely be very nice once it comes out of beta testing, but I find that I now look forward to new OS releases with dread. Stuff is broken, "it just works" is now a punch line rather than a driving philosophy, things are added/changed that while they do change things they don't add much.
The original Macintosh was deliberately designed to be expandable only via external ports. Straight from the horses mouth:
thanks i will read up on it, i will be surprised if they were deliberately trying to force obsolescence on the early machines. i had some of the early apples and it just never seemed that way to me.
