adyb

spheric said:

GeorgeBMac said:

danox said:

GeorgeBMac said:

Well, yeh, those are two critical weaknesses in the M1 Mac line.

Nothing else matters if your computer cannot do the computing you need it to do.

Likewise, Apple has fallen behind the industry as it failed to produce a viable 2 in 1.    Telling people to just  buy a second computer is silly.

Yeh, the iPad definitely has the innate capability to be a very capable 2 in 1.   But so far weaknesses in iPadOS are constraining it from reaching its full capabilities.

Come on Apple!  You opened the door for the Mac to take full advantage of Apple's cohesive Ecosystem.  But, you can't keep it handcuffed.  You need to:
1)   Support Microsoft in producing a viable ARM edition of Windows.   To simply blame Microsoft after Apple moved away from it is silly.

2)   Upgrade the iPad so it can compete with the 2 in 1's.   The best way to do that might be to let it switch from iPadOS to MacOS as it goes from tablet mode to laptop mode.   It can be done.   Others have already done similar.

Steve knew that it was more important to give users what they needed rather than simply producing a slick product. 

Apple needs to remember that.

Apple doesn’t need Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and now Intel to sell a great product, soon Qualcomm, and AMD will join that list in the rear view mirror.

And by the way the Surface is a placeholder like the Pixel line of smartphones a me too product going nowhere.

Helping Microsoft a what laugh.....

No, Apple doesn't need them -- but Apple customers do.

And, instead of walking away from Intel and thumbing their noses at Microsoft (very childish!) they need to help them build/upgrade a version of Windows that an M1 Mac can boot from Bootcamp.   For an Apple customer, its a fall back, an insurance policy, in case they have to run something that won't run on MacOS.

How many users actually stilll rely upon Bootcamp, though? Things are really very different from fifteen years ago. 

I remember waiting for OS X 10.5 (Leopard) to come out with Bootcamp as part of the standard build before buying my first Mac (a white MacBook) as I knew that there was some software I used that was only available on Windows. I found however that after 2/3 years I no longer needed to use Bootcamp, as either Mac versions of the software became available or I found alternatives.

Whilst I understand that there are some people that still need Bootcamp, I agree that things are very different nowadays.

To Bumble, this would make it harder for advertisers to "accurately target and measure their advertising campaigns at the user level,"

I can tell advertisers that their online campaigns always result in zero clicks from me - does that help with the targeting and measuring??

spice-boy said:

A very close friend of mine who is 52 hard a heart attack while out running recently, he was wearing his Apple Watch 5. He told me the day after that is Apple Watch never signaled anything was wrong before or during the attack. My point don't put too much weight behind what Apple claims about this device. 

Although the first picture in the article shows that Apple Watch never checks for heart attacks.

riverko said:

So, my MacBook Pro Retina mid 2012, the very first Retina, not supported anymore... Well, almost 8 years support of latest OS releases is still amazing... Will wait what hardware will be introduced with the Apple Silicone later this year...

I'm not surprised with them just going on the obsolete list, but I'm hoping to get a few more years use out of mine - I'll just have to stay away from the Apple stores when they do start bringing out the new Apple Silicon machines so that my resolve doesn't get tested!

Peza said:

adyb said:

Peza said:

mjtomlin said:

Why do people think that whenever something new comes out, everything old just stops working. Those people can just buy an Intel Mac, which will still be supported for years. If there aren’t any new ones sold, they can always buy a used one cheaper.

Apples idea of years seems to be 5. Yes it’s correct as it’s ‘years’, but I don’t know many people who buy new Macs every 5 years.

Shhhh - my 2012 MacBook Pro which has been supported for 8 years (& which I'm typing on now) might hear & get all confused!!

Haha, I was thinking of the hardware support I think? My 2010 no longer gets updates though, only the odd security patch..

Unfortunately my MacBook goes obsolete too this year but I'm hoping to get a few more years use out of it.