aussiepaul

Apple won't win this.

Ouch.
I personally don't understand how Apple as the largest company in the world with no concerns about cash flow can't have multiple successful product teams going.
How hard is it for them to put out a decent looking updated monitor for example?
The culture there sounds brutal too...?

In response to a previous article and this one, AI is drinking too much Apple cool aid...

With the exception of the 13" quad core, these are not major upgrades at all...

The machines are good, yes.  But there remain three massive issues which won't ever be fixed:
 1. Extremely poor built in dedicated graphics (for a pro machine) (could someone tell me what the double precision FP performance of a Radeon 555X is!?)...  Probably not even 100M FLOPS...?
 2. CPUs which cannot hold even base frequency under constant load (is this the first laptop that Apple has shipped which cannot hold base frequency under full CPU utilisation)?
 3. Price.  It's no longer price competitive, especially once you start paying apple taxes for necessary add ons like dongles and extra SSD storage.

I'm so disappointed.  I have lost so much faith in Apple's Mac team under TC.  Things started going downhill pretty badly after Bob Mansfield left.  I recently bought a 13" 2017 non touch bar laptop to tide me over until these upgrades were available, and now I don't know what to do.
All of my long term Mac friends are leaving the platform because of cost (especially for SSD storage, it's insane, most people don't need 3GB/s write speeds, but they do need/want more storage in a laptop)...  The pricing is just insane.

Apple just doesn't listen, it never has and probably never will...  It's time for TC to go and concentrate on saving the world from intolerance.  Let's please get someone in there who understands the Mac and is not just some logistics guy.  Laptops are not going anywhere any time soon.  But Apple is slowly bleeding its core users.  And when developers all end up buying competing laptops, then the precious iOS will suffer too.

What's sad is that Apple is basically dead in Education and science now...

To the author, this has nothing to do with the size of the OS, which is probably larger.
it is likely because the phone underwent cleaning of caches, logs etc.
Try this, take a phone which is almost full, try to rent a large movie in iTunes, voila more space, like magic.

How about a barometer to enable steps/altitude training?  Been on my Casio 20 years!

Can't imagine why anyone would be so stupid as to let google run their home/network.

9secondkox2 said:

THIS is their response? 

Qualcomm is in deep doodoo. 

Apple gave factual data on where Qualcomm went wrong-withholding a specific amount of money owed-out of spite. 

Qualcomm then spins a web to connect all their woes to Apple. 

When that hat is the best they can do, you already know who stands where. 

Its going to to end poorly for Qualcomm. 

Agreed but why would Apple have agreed to the terms in the first place?  Why is this only surfacing now, 6 years later?  There's always more to these things than might first appear.  Not quite sure how anyone can reach any conclusions with the limited amount of information available three days into this going public.

Thanks for the article but I think the whole Aperture vs Lightroom comparison misses the mark.
The real question is, why does Apple develop what is seemingly a good solution, then decide to kill it off or seriously cripple it aka Final Cut, Photos etc.?
Why does Apple only seemingly cater to the lowest common denominator these days?
Will Apple's new corporate "only if it makes significant money" management style hurt or hinder the company long term?
Where are the hardware and software solutions we users actually want?
Aperture died a long time before it was officially retired, at least a couple of years without any meaningful updates from my recollection...
Aperture could have been so much more.  I always envisioned them expanding the "lessons" concept of GarageBand to interactive editing demos by professional photographers with Aperture.  Photos is a joke by comparison.  Apple has seemingly no interest or talent in App development these days.  It's a concern isn't it?
Don't get me started on what happened to Nik after the google buy out.  Damn shame, their U-Point technology was really ground-breaking compared to anything in Aperture.

Soli said:

aussiepaul said:

irnchriz said:

OR you buy ONE dongle which does SD card, USB 3, LAN and HDMI.  Then you only have one dongle.

So you think that having to buy and carry around a $300 brick sized dongle to restore functionality that the previous gen model had is ok? 

1) The previous model didn't have Ethernet/LAN. That left 4 years ago.

2) Why would you pay $300 for something you don't need, especially when there are all sort of varieties ranging as low as $5.

3) If you're still using VGA, Ethernet, DVI, an SD card, and other archaic ports that the rest of the world has been moving away from then you need to ask yourself why the fuck are you looking at a modern MacBook Pro in the first place? The answer is simple: you're not. You're just here bitch and moan.

Totally rediculous and insulting comment.  Never mentioned Ethernet and pro cameras/photographers use SD card and will do for some time.