Rank Apple releases

[skaertus]

How would you rank Apple's latest releases? The ranks being: Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor

Here are mine:

In March 2012:

3rd gen iPad: Excellent
Apple TV: Good

In June 2012:

15-inch MacBook Pro with retina display: Excellent
MacBook Air: Fair
MacBook Pro: Fair
Mac Pro: Poor

In July 2012:

OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Fair

In September 2012:

iPhone 5: Good
iPod Touch: Good
iOS 6: Poor

In October 2012:

13-inch MacBook Pro with retina display: Excellent
iPod Nano: Good
4th gen iPad: Fair
iPad Mini: Fair
Mac Mini: Fair

In November 2012:

iMac (November 2012): Good

In February 2013:

MacBook Pro with retina display: Fair

In June 2013:

Mac Pro: Excellent
MacBook Air: Fair

In September 2013:

iOS 7: Excellent
iPhone 5S: Good
iPhone 5C: Poor
iPod Touch: Poor
iPod Nano: Poor
iPod Shuffle: Poor

How's yours?

 

[MRSucks]

Apple is the Radiohead of consumer electronics?

 

[Dulcimer]

Your iPod ratings for Sept. 2013 don't make much sense since they weren't really updated, just had a new colour. As for the MacBook Air in June of 2013: what?! Just a "fair"? The battery was significantly increased!

/rant

Otherwise, I agree with most of what you said.

 

[skaertus]

Your iPod ratings for Sept. 2013 don't make much sense since they weren't really updated, just had a new colour. As for the MacBook Air in June of 2013: what?! Just a "fair"? The battery was significantly increased!

/rant

Otherwise, I agree with most of what you said.

I chose to rank the iPods release as "poor" exactly because they were not really updated, and just a new color makes it a very poor update.

Yeah. Fair. Because it was not a big update. The improvement in battery life was expected due to the release of the Haswell processor (the better video card too). Everything else remained nearly unchanged: storage increased a bit in the 11-inch version; and processor speed and RAM remained pretty much the same. But the MacBook Air remains with a TN screen with standard resolution, while other ultrabooks are being redesigned and are getting dazzling IPS screens that rival the retina displays of the MacBook Pros. The MacBook Air is not the killer ultrabook anymore, Apple seems to have lost the timing with it, and that makes it a fair update (Apple slighly decreased the price because it obviously knows it has to make the Air more competitive in a market that is becoming increasingly more crowded by high-quality ultrabooks).