opinion

Half the price is still to high. Sometimes I think that there is no point in making the best products if people can’t afford them. 

I think a lot of us waited for a 27” version but Apple seems to do less and less what people want and more and more what Apple want. Sad development and an equation that won’t turn out well in some years if it continues.

I say it again, sometimes I see no point in making the best products if nobody can afford them. I love Apple but lately they seem to be not able to get the full equation together like before. There seems to always be some loose end. Notch on iPhones, ugly chin on iMac and again external power box, Airpower getting too warm etc. Or, not be able to design with end price in mind.

My god, if this is true I wonder where Apple is heading.

Will this mean that an app can be chosen to be distributed only by the third party option here in Europe? What will that mean to me who only want to download apps via Apples App store?

M68000 said:

Jobs would be proud. 

I think he would be disappointed in how Apple lost some of it´s super perfection. And it hurts me as a long time Apple fan and I still am but there are cracks in the facade now. Sadly.

I say it again, the world would have been a better place without Facebook. 

My wishlist:

An iMac with a larger screen, 27" would do just fine.

A smaller iPhone, like the 13 or 12 mini with a Touch ID button on the side as well as Face ID. And an option to turn off the computational photography.

A new AirPort line up - including a Time Capsule.

A new ergonomic mouse bringing back a roller ball on top (but with new technology preventing dust interfering with it) or maybe a wheel.

Yeah, some of their older stuff in new and refined versions.

I always liked Apple but when they start to ignore customer needs, well then they are on a strange route.

I only use Siri as an egg clock. And I am not interested in AI integrations, I sometimes use ChatGPT to write some texts but that's it - it can be done in a browser. Does Apple push this AI thing because the customers want it or is it just because it's a thing now?