What are the 3 most disappointing moves apple has made?

[Snookerman]

Are your next threads going to be "How would you kill yourself" & "What song would you play at your funeral"?

Cheer up

Well, Siri can take care of those.

 

[reasonosx]

• Ditching Front Row
• Diminishing Mobile Me
• Lion Address Book

 

[Mousse]

1. Pippen
2. Pink/Taligent/Copland or whatever it ended up being called before it finally got canned.
3. Still waiting for a bigger screw up than Taligent

 

[UTclassof89]

1) Puck Mouse
2) über-glossy screens
3) dragging disk to garbage metaphor (to eject disk)

 

[h4lp m3]

3. Abandoning Firewire/Target disk mode.
2. MacBook Pro isn't really "Pro" anything. (limited I/O, moderate gfx, 1 hard drive bay, eSata? Blu-Ray?)
1. Letting Best Buy sell  products.

 

[*LTD*]

1) Puck Mouse
2) über-glossy screens
3) dragging disk to garbage metaphor (to eject disk)

You can right-click and eject disk. No dragging needed.

 

[B777Forevar]

6th gen nano
ping
not revamping the iPod classic

 

[talmy]

2. MacBook Pro isn't really "Pro" anything. (limited I/O, moderate gfx, 1 hard drive bay, eSata? Blu-Ray?)

And the funny thing is I use my MacBook and my iMac professionally and there is no "Pro" in their names!

 

[thejadedmonkey]

They are most certainly not the same as every other computer. The innards, perhaps, but the average user pays little to no attention to the innards. It's the User Experience which defines Macs, as it defines virtually all Apple products. In the case of the Mac, attention to design and OS X.

https://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/2...isfaction-survey-for-eighth-consecutive-time/

That's a far cry from "the same as every other computer." I used to have a PowerMac. It felt no different from any other computer, save for the design and the OS.

Macs are not undifferentiated.

Seeing as I was talking about the innards...

 

[*LTD*]

Seeing as I was talking about the innards...

Whether the chip reads "PPC" or "Intel" matters a lot less than you would like to believe. If you were talking about innards then your argument is vastly overstated, although it's technically correct. However, your motivation was not to state it as a solitary technical fact, but as a measure of differentiation (or lack thereof.)

 

[Schtumple]

iPod HiFi
PowerMac G4
Every mouse apple has made (Mighty Mouse in particular though)

Special place in my heart -

• MBP Late '08 - As mentioned before, horrifically bad battery life, advertised as 5, more often I got 2, also most problem riddled machine I've owned.
• iPod Nano (1st gen) - Struggled very hard to not scratch that thing, it still got brutalised by my jeans pocket though...
• FCP HD - All the issues of all the previous releases, but now with HD! For everyone complaining FCPX is bad, they seem to have forgotten just how bad FCP 7 still is...
• Ping - When 40 year olds wearing suits create social networking it just doesn't work.
• Garageband (all) - I've never found an application that has such consistently poor performance when on an extremely powerful machine

 

[thejadedmonkey]

1. Their move from Apple Computer inc., to Apple inc.
2. The switch from PPC to Intel
3. Thinking that they're all that and a bag of chips, when their iOS devices took off

Moving from Apple Computer -> Apple signified a change of strategy, from a computer company to a consumer company, which I disapprove of.

Going from PPC to Intel made the mac the same as every other computer. They truly lost something Magical that day.

And they need to realize they're still acting like a whiny underdog, when they're the largest company in the world. Seriously, Apple needs to grow up.

Whether the chip reads "PPC" or "Intel" matters a lot less than you would like to believe. If you were talking about innards then your argument is vastly overstated, although it's technically correct. However, your motivation was not to state it as a solitary technical fact, but as a measure of differentiation (or lack thereof.)

If you look at my list, everything I mention regards Apple's explosive growth, and turning their back on the professional market, while riding the consumer iOS wave. Although clicking on a finder icon on a PPC mac or an Intel mac produced the very same results, the switch to Intel is regarded as a portion of Apple's transition into a monolithic company which, quite frankly, I don't much care for anymore.

 

[h4lp m3]

Apple's Most DEVIOUS moves.

Planned obsolescence.
Designing iPods,iPads & iPhones to be non-serviceable.
Logic Boards (Motherboards with integrated CPU, GPU, I/O).
Fixing flash media prices.

 

[UTclassof89]

You can right-click and eject disk. No dragging needed.

No sh**, Sherlock.

Notwithstanding it was a dumb metaphor that confused a lot of people, and is literally a textbook example of bad UI design.

 

[Bonch]

When they stopped making printers. Now they are all garbage that you have to replace every year. A metal printer that lasted a decade (aside from ink of course) would be very appealing to me, even if it cost $1K.

The lack of interest in developing professional apps (like Aperture, etc). The dumbing down of professional apps in favor of better selling consumer apps. Sure the money is better but they lost the people who are serious about what they do.

SJ admitting that he named it Apple because he liked the Beatles, paving the way for a drawn out lawsuit. Look in the phone book, there are thousands of companies with Apple in their name, none of them got sued by the Beatles (inc).

(4th) Giving Bill Gates 3 prototypes of the the first Macintosh computer (GUI interface) before it hit the market, which led to the creation of Windows.

 

[roadbloc]

No sh**, Sherlock.

Notwithstanding it was a dumb metaphor that confused a lot of people, and is literally a textbook example of bad UI design.

I've always wondered why Apple just don't just let you rip out memory sticks without first ejecting. Not really a complaint, I don't care much, but I have yet to have a memory stick fail on me due to not ejecting or safley removing it first.

 

[boss.king]

I've always wondered why Apple just don't just let you rip out memory sticks without first ejecting. Not really a complaint, I don't care much, but I have yet to have a memory stick fail on me due to not ejecting or safley removing it first.

Yeah, that's baffled me too. I haven't "safely ejected" from a computer since XP, but the little message that always pops up on OSX makes me think one day I could lose my data. Can anyone explain why you have to eject from OSX but not from Windows? I'm genuinely curious

 

[Schtumple]

You have to on both, OSX just gives you a decent warning about it if you don't.

I've yet to have a pen drive die from not being ejected but I've had a hard drive die from it, must be some kind of switching off for the hardware I guess.

 

[KnightWRX]

You have to on both, OSX just gives you a decent warning about it if you don't.

I've yet to have a pen drive die from not being ejected but I've had a hard drive die from it, must be some kind of switching off for the hardware I guess.

It's not a hardware thing at all nor is there any "switching off" of the hardware. Modern OSes (or should I say intelligent OSes since this has been the case since the late 80s outside the consumer realm) perform write operations asynchronously. That is, after you've "dragged a file" or "pasted a file", the OS will ack write requests as they get written to the file cache in memory rather than out to the media and will perform write operations to the media as the system permits.

This boosts speeds of write operations as the filesystem is updated but not the actual data on the media. Ejecting your media forces a write operation of every block that has yet to be written.

This is why it says "data corruption" might occur if you don't eject. Anyone who tried to write a 1.44 MB floppy under NT or Linux and just removed it straight from the drive knows floppies don't get written in under 3 seconds even if the OS tells you it did.