If its just a speedbump I'm not getting anything Apple for a long time.
I'm fed up with them promoting themselves as customer centric, innovators, "amazing things in the pipeline" and yet each year it gets worse and worse.
What has Apple truly done to warrant such high claims? Catalina disaster,
Mac Pro amazing but insane wait time,
Display great but exercise for the richest with $999 stand, keyboard disaster, touchbar
nonsense, airpower etc.
Tim keeps saying the same and yet the products that come out are not that. Sure, there are some good ones but generally its hit and miss.
Latest iPad Pro is a good example - same chip with
tiny improvements.
iMac neglected for years with spinning drives that are so out of date thats not even funny.
Apple keynotes used to be exciting and I always looked forward for those but last few years it was one disappointment after another. Slofies, memoji etc. was on front whilst real products took the back seat.
It is truly disappointing to see Apple slacking so much. I'm not a fan of MS etc. but I really hope someone will truly replace Apple the same way as AMD did with Intel now.
I guess that is truly one thing that could help Apple to wake up and not come up with wheels for $700.
Sorry for the rant but I just feel disappointed.
The AiO model from HP showed us what can really be put into that form and we can truly have powerful uptodate specs in that form. Unlike Apple which always gives you old tech (especially GPU).
Can we, customers, stop buying nonsensical products to show Apple that this is really not acceptable?
One can dream, right?
Ah, Freida. Such eloquence.
I could have written it myself.
A lamentable summation of where Apple are.
To sheepishly move on past the 'cough spluttering silence' of the £1k stand announcement on screen...(before the riot broke out...)
I'll give props to HP. Anyone that hasn't wandered around their online store of late should do so. They've turned things around greatly since their u-turn on exiting the PC business. Their design is really coming along a treat and they're not the only PC vendor to do so. Apple's desktop design has become quite safe and stale by comparison. Apple isn't being run by a CEO that is *NOT* a product guy.
I do have to give Cook's Apple some credit on the Mac Pro design (and the Apple Watch), however, the price is stupifying when the old 'Mac Pro' cost £2.5k. And they only seemed to do this with the overwhelming lash they got from the Mac creative community. They've doubled the price and added £1k. They're out of touch with reality. Yes. We know the old G3 towers also cost a 'bit more' than the PC tower comparison. They certainly show what IS possible to include in the AiO design for £3k. Lovely 32 inch 4k screen, potent gpu in it, 8 cores, plenty of ram and a decent SSD! If it ran Mac OS? That's the machine I'd buy from an 'iMac' point of view.
Yes, Cook can talk about products in the pipeline but many of them are evolutionary re-hashes.
It's a sentiment I share. I truly do miss Steve Jobs giving the sermon to the Mac faithful. I miss him greatly.
The Apple I wish and hope for is merely that. 'A dream.' My feelings about them have definitely been separated post Jobs.
In the last shareholder meeting...Cook said Apple gives customers the best product for the best price.
I don't think the current iMac, the entry level iMac (with ancient hard drive), the prices Apple charge now for these desktops and what they USED to charge for iMacs rings true. Apple used to see the Mac Mini with dGPU and boast about that fact. The Mac Pro *used* to be accessible to the broader creative community.
So...a 'substantial' iMac update with a design makeover would be a great tonic right about 'now.'
Azrael.
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I have an iMac 27" late 2009 (max memory, SSD) beyond its last legs so while a redesign is nice I will take what ever they have to give!! I don't expect to get 11 years out of the new one, maybe 4 if I am lucky!
11 years? You've done well there. Impressive.
Azrael.
