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After reading the same story in Bloomberg, Quartz, and perhaps the most anti-Apple and general garbage publication Forbes, I was wondering if/when would publish an article like this.   Thank you. 

TEAMSWITCHER said:

Apple is really starting to bother me.  First, Mac updates simply do not happen with enough frequency - regardless of the product. Second, Tim Cook's "Upgrade Fun House", to get a 1TB SSD or more ram is DEFINITELY NOT how I want to buy a computer.  And now, making a "MacPad" (an iPad that can run macOS) seems like low hanging fruit, but Apple doesn't want to do it.  Apple used to enter existing product categories, innovate them, and be more successful than those that created them.  Now .. they have a CEO touting the benefits of "staying in lanes."   Apple ... You've become a boring company. 

I strongly disagree. Tailoring the OS to the device and corresponding Use case is a better approach.  And I believe Apple is far from boring.  The integration between the Mac, iPhone, iPad, watch, and AirPods, while not perfect, is exceptionally executed, to the point where the market cannot generate a competitive alternative.  For me, so well executed that I don’t even think of looking for alternatives.  

The engineering and quality of the hardware is still second to none.  Take the iPhone X. Not only did Apple raise the bar for OLED displays, in order to achieve the near bezeless design, they had to employ a difficult and expensive technique of folding the edges of the display that other manufactures won’t do because it is too expensive.   This is the kind of innovation that is invisible to naked eye, and one that can’t be evaluated using crude, third party device breakdowns.  

Moreso, consider their innovations in machine learning.   While other companies rely on cloud computing to provide services, monetizing your data and thereby yourself in the process, Apple figures out how to do it using on device processors. I suspect this is also due to the extremely tight integration of hardware and OS that everybody seems to be taking for granted nowadays.  Privacy is hot topic, yet no one wants to acknowledge Apple’s achievement.  

I could go on and on.  Is Apple perfect? Absolutely not.  But they are way ahead of the field in many respects.  

myopiarocks said:

Step 1: Build a strawman and light it on fire: "We will never merge the two if doing so would mean compromises."

In other words, "We are in the process of merging the two." Putting an ARM chip in the macs and running the OS on the ARM isn't the same as merging, I suppose...

That’s not what he said at all, and placing quotes around your claims to attribute them to Tim Cook is misleading at best and deceptive at worst. 

I’m missing something -  who really cares anymore about Samsung this, Hwawei that, Android vs iOS whatever?  Are there truly such a significant amount of consumers who are ready to flip phones whenever a new one comes out?

While I’m fully aware that my tiny, bias opinion based on anecdotal evidence makes no impact whatsoever, what are people missing in either variant of smartphone anymore - they have the same shape, fairly similar UI, and even now the same notch. Top end models all have decent cameras that still can’t touch large sensor dedicated cameras.  They all have pretty similar OLED screens.  

I just don’t understand the worthiness of this kind of news.  

harry wild said:

It is about time!  I am hoping for a flagship SE-2 instead of a budget model that has two year old or later components inside of it and it called "new"!  It a joke to many buyers of the SE because many buyers can easily afford to buy a Mac Pro on impulse if they wanted one with thinking about how much it costs!

The SE is the smallest iPhone and a cheap entry into the iOS ecosystem.  I know many who have absolutely no desire for more features than the SE’s. It is/was a perfect product for many people.