dysamoria

These things are still ludicrously expensive, over the top for some uses, and insufficient for others. It’s like this category of product is impossible to get right and no one cares to make it affordable. Yet, Apple has created this market by dropping all the ports on MacBooks and not saving us any expense while doing so.

I give points to AI for continuing to showcase this display sitting on a disk directly, since it doesn’t come with a stand...

Oh finally a new GUI for EXS24? Cool. But...

As predicted: Apple dropped Sierra and High Sierra support for Logic. I’m sort of surprised they didn’t also drop Mojave support.

None of my Macs support Mojave. They are already hacked to run unsupported High Sierra and can’t go further to Mojave.

Sigh.

Then there’s the remote app, with no support for iOS 12, which I’m still on because iOS 13 is reportedly sluggish on iPhone 6s and iPad Pro first generation.

Sigh.

The push to buy new hardware continues... and I’m poor as dirt.

Even if I weren’t poor, Apple don’t give a damn about me being a customer unless I’m also wealthy. Buy a new phone every three years to be safe. Buy a new Mac every six years or less.

No!

I’ve been saving tax rebates to buy a new Mac Pro to replace both my old Macs and my old PC, and then Apple went and changed the introductory price of the Mac Pro to frelling $6000, twice what it used to start at, and all non-plutocrats who can’t afford an overkill machine are expected to keep using storage & RAM-unupgradable & thermally deficient all-in-one laptops, iMacs, or similarly stupidly compact & unupgradable Mac Mini (while also suffering whatever display incompatibilities there are with third party displays because Apple only makes a $5000 display now).

Apple won me over in 2008. In 2013, that Apple ceased to be. I still hate Windows and PCs more, but WTF am I supposed to do? Just keep buying thermally-insufficient, high-cost second-hand machines that last a shorter time due to the constant upgrade cycle push via an expiring ecosystem?

Having a fully-operational Apple device ecosystem is impossible for longer than a couple years. For example: if I upgrade to iOS 13, iCloud Safari sync will break for me because I can’t uograde to Mojave on my Macs.

This is shit. I don’t know where else I can go because I DESPISE Windows and PCs. Dog damn you, Apple.

SpamSandwich said:

And I hasten to add I have absolutely no reason to trash Apple without cause. Most of my personal wealth is tied to their stock.

I figured. Thanks for confirming as much. But wait, if your wealth is tied up in stock... it’s not wealth unless you sell said stock, right?

Meh. I’m fine with my existing non-luxury-priced over-ear studio headphones.