sirozha

mejsric said:

macplusplus said:

randominternetperson said:

By the way the headline is misleading since it implies that Apple confirmed this.  

Apple is confirmed, not Apple has confirmed ;-)

There's no "is" 

jfc1138 said:

Apple "confirmed "NOTHING!   Total B. S. headline. 

You must not be a native speaker of English. The caption means "Apple is confirmed limiting  . . ." Which means that "someone else has confirmed that Apple is limiting . . . "

The reason that you are not seeing "is" in the caption is due to the fact that in news captions or headlines, it is customary to drop modal verbs, which has been a newspaper and magazine tradition for over a hundred years in most English language publications around the world. 

paxman said:

dreyfus2 said:

Really do not care if it says Apple on the box, I might even get the 5k model due to lack of alternatives. But even if Apple gets out of the monitor business (and several other ones I assume, Airports and Time Machines seem to be equally forgotten and behind), can't they extend their collaboration with these third parties to give them some designs? Hooking a $4k+ laptop beauty up to something that ugly just hurts.

It hurts. But beyond that I always thought high visibility items in the Apple ecosystem such as monitors would have more value in terms of marketing than direct margins. Even if all Apple did was design the casing it would signal the Apple brand loudly. Ditto Apple TV - I thought the value of a large Apple branded screen as the central focus in people's living rooms would be valuable in terms of brand awareness. Clearly I was wrong. Maybe Apple decided we have become much more sophisticated and see right through the large monitor on the wall or on the desk. 

The reason this is happening is due to Apple having lost its visionary and its vision. Besides the fact that the iPhone 7, which came out just a month before the 2016 MacBook Pros, cannot be connected to the MacBook Pros without an additional cable (not included with either device), the earphones that come with the iPhone 7 cannot be connected directly to the 2016 MacBook Pros.

Apple seems to have become confused between USB-C and Lightning connectors. The second generation of Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad were released with the Lightning connector in 2015. Why put the Lightning connector in the non-mobile gear? Oh, that is so that folks could use their existing USB-A to Lightning cables to charge these devices. Amazing! Great vision, Apple!  But then, why not follow this path and put a Lightning connector in the 2016 MacBook and MacBook Pros so that everything converges on Lightning within the Apple ecosystem and on USB-C between the Apple ecosystem and other vendors? So, some time around the end of 2015, the vision must have switched back away from Lightning and to USB-C. The early 2016 MacBook never saw the Lightning connector and neither did the late 2016 MacBook Pros. However, why was the iPhone 7 released with the Lightning connector instead of USB-C? So, is the vision now that Apple mobile devices will stick tobthe Lightning Connector, while USB-C is reserved exclusively for Apple laptops and future desktops? Perhaps, but we now have Apple Bluetooth keyboards, mice, and trackpads, which have built-in batteries and need to be charged by USB, that cannot be charged from the new MacBook and MacBook Pros without buying an extra USB-C to Lightning cable. 

Apple is now telling us that the future is in USB-C, yet we are stuck with the Lightning connector on the Generation 2 Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, and on the brand spanking new iPhone 7. 

What about Mac Pro? Apple released a revolutionary Mac Pro in 2013 after years of neglect just to neglect this platform again by not refreshing it for over 3 years now. 

What about Mac Mini? Apple only released one refresh to the 2012 Mac Mini in 2014, but they crippled the platform by not providing a quad-core option. Since 2014, the Mac Mini platform appears to be neglected again.

There is no more vision in Apple, which is now wondering in the dark without any direction. The cash hoard that Apple has accumulated is doing nothing. Apple doesn't know where to go next. The Apple Car project was a waste of time and nothing came out of it. Apple can't even nail down a streaming TV service.

Apple HomeKit is a mess, and Apple support for HomeKit is as good as non-existent. The folks who answer the HomeKit support calls have never even configured HomeKit themselves. The don't know how to fix any issues with HomeKit access sharing, devices disappearing from HomeKit, remote HomeKit access not working, etc. 

The quality of the Apple customer service as a whole has gone downhill. It now takes at least 20 minutes on hold before Apple Support answers a support call. Then you get a Level 1 technician who knows very little about the product they are supposed to support. They can help old people with navigating their iPhones, but that's about the extent of their knowledge. You have to escalate to a more senior technician almost any non-trivial issue, and then you are again on hold forever. The Level 1 technicians bullshit their way out of the issues they don't know how to solve and then they drop the call and never call you back even though they have just taken your phone number. 

In the corporate world, Apple is extremely arrogant and stubborn. I'm trying to lead an effort to offer MacBook Pros as a choice to senior engineers in a large multinational corporation by piloting MacBook Pros in my engineering group, and we realized that the 2015 MacBook Pros procured for this pilot were ordered with too little storage. We want to upgrade SSD from 256 GB to 512 GB or 1 TB, but the Apple enterprise group refuses to sell us this upgrade. Our upper management are shocked by this arrogance on the part of Apple, especially provided that we can potentially buy tens of millions of dollars worth of hardware from Apple if this pilot succeeds. It seems as though Apple doesn't care. 

In short, it's so sad to see what's been happening to Apple since Steve passed away. 

If a woman should be entitled to get a list of service providers that would murder her child for money, should Siri return appropriate information for a request from a man for the service providers that would murder his wife or girlfriend for money?

ihatescreennames said:

sirozha said:

As it stands now, not a single MacBook Pro released today is priced within reason for the majority of Apple customers.

How do you know that?

Because I have been one for many years. I can easily afford any of the new MacBook Pro, but I'm in the upper 5% of earners in the US. Even though none of the newly released MacBook Pros would make a noticeable dent in my budget, I will not be buying any model released today if they stay at the current price points. Apple has insulted their consumer base with these prices and the asinine design decisions that prevent the newly released iPhone 7 from being able to connect to the newly released MacBook Pro without an additional dongle, which Apple was too cheap to include with the MacBook pros.

I'm extremely upset about what Apple did today as a shareholder with a very sizeable AAPL portfolio (very sizable indeed). They will lose the notebook market share by a large percentage because of the bad decisions that they made with this MacBook Pro release.