P_Devil

virtualshift said:

Their computers are just over priced and always late to the game. A underpowered $6000 MacPro, and 2 year old iMac Pro and a 10 year old design iMac with outdated peripherals. 

It's been 21 years since the iMac was first available for purchase, it's been at least 30 years of hearing comments like this. Apple is not going to license macOS for use outside of their own hardware. They tried that for a bit and have said it would never happen again. The main iMac design hasn't really been changed since 2004 but how are you going to change an all-in-one design with the logic board behind the display? You might as well say that all desktop tower designs have remained the same since the late 80's. Can't they come up with anything new?

For a good chunk of my life, I was anti-Apple. I had always used Wintel systems and my first smartphone was an Android device (Droid X). I had an iPod and reluctantly ran iTunes on my Windows systems, but I felt I was forced to use an iPod. I had a 96MB (yes, MB, not GB) Rio 600 player that was old; so I upgraded to something from Creative, then something from Rio again, then Dell’s iPod competitor, then something from Archos. None of them had the device interface, interactivity, or PC software down. I picked up a 3G iPod as it still worked with MusicMatch. Then Apple released iTunes for Windows and that changed things. Still, I used Wintel systems and refused to buy anything Apple other than iPods. I upgraded to a 4G iPod touch and liked it. Then the iPad came out and, despite all the negative reviews and previews of it not being a touch OS X device, I had to have one. I pre-ordered and picked it up on launch day from my local Apple Store. After using an iPod touch, I saw what things were like when they were simple. I didn’t have to worry about internet plug-ins, I didn’t have to worry if a media file would play or not, I didn’t have to worry about viruses (or any similar things), the first iPad worked well, and it was more than just a big iPod touch. I wasn’t sold on the idea until I saw Steve demo it (I had only heard about it online before I could make it back home and watch the video). I’ve been sold on the iPad ever since despite owning a few touchscreen Wintel systems and Surface products. iOS has also become a lot more of a desktop-like OS than when it was initially introduced and I’m glad Apple admitted they were wrong on one front: the stylus. Now, for me, the iPad is to a point where it can replace my PC usage 95% of the time. The only instances it can’t are when I’m encoding a video and using iTunes to host media content (I use library share on my always running Mac Mini to host my movie library for all three of my Apple TVs). That’s about it. I will gladly carry around my 11” iPad Pro and Apple Pencil over a 2.5lb+ system.

Oh no, a phone that's still 6-8 months from release had a software problem.  Might as well just cancel the whole project now.