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  • Cook pledges support to pro users, talks Trump at Apple's annual shareholder meeting in Cu...

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    Soli said:
    altivec88 said:
    Soli said:
    crowley said:
    Soli said:
    altivec88 said:
    Sorry Timmy, your continued lies about "road maps, pipelines, and pros are important to us" don't match your actions.
    You're claiming has no plans about future products (road maps) or products that will be ready to be released in the near future (pipeline)?
    Your definition of near future?

    [irrelevant image]
    So because the Mac Pro hasn't been updated in a ridiculously long time that means that Apple is doing absolutely NOTHING? You're also claiming Apple has zero plans for any future products and will have no products coming out this year that will be used a single professional? Do you really want to make such a stupid claim? How about giving Tim Cook some help by saying that he should take people off landscaping duty at Apple Park so they can get back to working on the next Mac Pro?¡
    What are you even talking about.  I don't care if Apple is making iPhones, doing a lot of great things, landscaping their campus or what ever.   All I care about is what affects my company.  We are talking about Pro Desktops and only about Pro Desktops.  HP and Dell have updated their workstations twice in that time which means my competitors using PC are far ahead of what we have.  44 core Xeon E5's, modern graphic cards, DDR4 Ram, tons of expansion....  

    Did I say Apple is a bad company.  NO, I didn't.  They are doing fantastic in many areas.  Unfortunately for me, they are not in the areas that I need.  Apple is not catering to the Pro market so Tim's words are complete crap to me.  HP and Dell will be releasing their 3rd update soon.  I can not afford to have my company die waiting for Apple.  We badly require additional machines and have machines that need to be replaced It will be hell in high water before I buy their current joke of machine at the prices they are asking.  I don't really care what your opinion is, bottom line is Apple will soon be loosing another long time Mac using company.
    I'm talking about your exact words. You stated quite clearly that Tim Cook has been LYING about having an road maps for the company and LYING about there being pipeline. All of these things are clearly false, yet you still made the claim.

    Even if you were making unsubstantiated claims that Tim Cook is making promises to you, you're current reasoning that "HP created a machine that had this and that" is not a reasonable argument that Apple should be copying everything HP is doing. Just because they bought HP's HQ doesn't mean they need to become HP.

    I get it, you want something specific and you're not getting your exact needs met. You may even want 64 GiB of non-LPDDR RAM in a Mac notebook that uses a desktop CPU and brings back the HDD because you like the higher capacity for less money over the reliability, size and performance of an SSD. That's fine! You can "wish for" whatever you want, but when you start making claims that a CEO is LYING to you and then trying making silly claims that there are no road maps or products in the pipeline, you sound like a deranged child.

    My suggestion to you—and with everyone else not happy with how a corporation chooses to conduct business legally—is to choose another company that best suits your needs. For example, I'd love to use this app with my Mac but Apple has removed SNMP support from their latest AEBS for reasons I can't begin to understand. That means I have to deal with the current AEBS or buy a router from a different vendor—but there is no crying on a fucking message board about how Tim Cook has forsaken you.
    Dude.  this is clearly over your head.

    If you think updating to the latest Xeon E5 Chip or using graphic cards that are not 4 years old, or using the latest fastest ram, Adding TB3.  All things that are critical to the pro market is copying, you don't have a clue.  This is 100% neglect and nothing else.

    Again, you bring up a strawman argument and change the subject claiming that I may even want LPDDR Ram in a notebook which I've never ever stated.  I clearly emphasized to you that this is about the MacPro and only the MacPro,  because that's what I require and that is what I am commenting about today.  So again, stop bring up how great Apple is at everything else because that is great for everyone else.  I am on topic commenting about the lie Tim cook stated in this article "The pro area is very important to us. The creative area is very important to us in particular."  which is something I am very experienced with and live every day

    To be extra clear:
     
    Tim Cook = "The pro area is very important to us. The creative area is very important to us in particular."
    MacPro = 1167 Days
    Translation = Lies.

    Thanks for your suggestion though.  Even though I already stated we will be choosing another company that actually believes "the pro market is very important to them" by you know, actions, instead of words.   I just hope you remember that you supported this incompetence when the Mac no longer has developers feeling its worthwhile making pro software.
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  • Cook pledges support to pro users, talks Trump at Apple's annual shareholder meeting in Cu...

    altivec88altivec88
    Soli said:
    crowley said:
    Soli said:
    altivec88 said:
    Sorry Timmy, your continued lies about "road maps, pipelines, and pros are important to us" don't match your actions.
    You're claiming has no plans about future products (road maps) or products that will be ready to be released in the near future (pipeline)?
    Your definition of near future?

    [irrelevant image]
    So because the Mac Pro hasn't been updated in a ridiculously long time that means that Apple is doing absolutely NOTHING? You're also claiming Apple has zero plans for any future products and will have no products coming out this year that will be used a single professional? Do you really want to make such a stupid claim? How about giving Tim Cook some help by saying that he should take people off landscaping duty at Apple Park so they can get back to working on the next Mac Pro?¡
    What are you even talking about.  I don't care if Apple is making iPhones, doing a lot of great things, landscaping their campus or what ever.   All I care about is what affects my company.  We are talking about Pro Desktops and only about Pro Desktops.  HP and Dell have updated their workstations twice in that time which means my competitors using PC are far ahead of what we have.  44 core Xeon E5's, modern graphic cards, DDR4 Ram, tons of expansion....  

    Did I say Apple is a bad company.  NO, I didn't.  They are doing fantastic in many areas.  Unfortunately for me, they are not in the areas that I need.  Apple is not catering to the Pro market so Tim's words are complete crap to me.  HP and Dell will be releasing their 3rd update soon.  I can not afford to have my company die waiting for Apple.  We badly require additional machines and have machines that need to be replaced It will be hell in high water before I buy their current joke of machine at the prices they are asking.  I don't really care what your opinion is, bottom line is Apple will soon be loosing another long time Mac using company.
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  • Cook pledges support to pro users, talks Trump at Apple's annual shareholder meeting in Cu...

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    After watching how many of my colleagues have switched or are planning to switch, I wonder how many of us pro's that require MacPro level desktops will be around to care when this comes out sometime in 2018-2020.  Sorry Timmy, your continued lies about "road maps, pipelines, and pros are important to us" don't match your actions.  Baring a miracle, after 33 years on the Mac, we are doing the switch.  The March event is the last straw and I give a less than 1% chance of an updated MacPro.

    The low amount of sales will then be blamed on a small market and the net result will be that developers will stop making pro software.  Good job Timmy.
    dysamoria

  • Apple formalizes 8-pin 'Ultra Accessory Connector' for switching headphones from Lightning...

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    hexclock said:
    ireland said:
    Non-symmetrical is insane.
    That line struck me as well. Is it shaped like a T-bone steak or what?
    Add me to the list of thinking, are they crazy.  People had enough problems fumbling around and force pushing the smaller USB connectors in.   Now they want to make something even smaller that's not symmetrical.   You're going to have to buy a magnifying glass to know which way to put these things in and if you want to try to do it in the dark, forget about it.

    The good news is that once everyone gets the peripherals, dongles, and cables for this needless port,  Apple can say, Jony spent years in the labs and designed a new  version of this needless port which is now symetrical, one micron thinner and made of aluminum.   We can then go out and replace the peripherals, dongles and cables we just bought a few years back.  It really keeps the economy going.  Thanks Apple.

    Call me crazy, but why can't they just update the lightning cable port spec to include analog audio, if that's what this is really about.   I mean, the USB standard was upgraded several times using the same USB-A connector,  why can't they do this with the lighting connector and maybe a specialized cable.  Why are they going backwards with a non symmetrical port?
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  • Former Apple engineer says company more rigid, less competitive under Tim Cook than Steve ...

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    Its interesting that the Apple Car was brought up in this article as just being a few years off.  Wasn't it a few days ago that the lead Swift creator, Chris Lattner also left Apple and is now "thrilled" to be at Tesla working on something new and important such as car AI.    Hmmmm, couldn't Apple use someone like that in their auto division working on their car AI.  Sounds like this former engineer hit the nail on the head by saying each employee is forced to be narrow focused.  Clearly, Chris must have heard rumors about Apple's car AI, why couldn't he be transferred over to the auto devision if thats what he was interested in?  As this engineer said, Apple use to be "thin, competitive, dynamic".  Does anyone believe those words to ring true today.   It just seems all blahhh over at Apple.
    Lattner already addressed his reasons for leaving

    1.  https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20170109/030063.html

    "Apple is a truly amazing place to be able to assemble the skills, imagination, and discipline to pull something like this off"

    2.  Here:   https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20170109/030078.html

    3.  Here:  http://www.macrumors.com/2017/01/17/chris-lattner-says-tesla-irresistible/

    "This was a very difficult decision, because I care deeply about the technology and people at Apple and because I could see myself staying there for many more years"

    4:  And lastly


    Yes, I am aware why he left Apple. His direct quotes:

    "I've been writing code for more than 30 years, and 16 of those years have been in the developer tools space. I love it, but I am ready to move on to something else. Autopilot is clearly incredibly important to the world because of its ability to save people's lives (and increase convenience). It is also a very, very hard technology problem and my experience building large scale software and team building is useful. Of course, I’ve also been a huge Tesla fan for some time."

    "This was a very difficult decision, because I care deeply about the technology and people at Apple and because I could see myself staying there for many more years. In the end though, the opportunity to dive into a completely new area and work with the amazing Tesla Autopilot team was irresistible."

    As I mentioned,  Apple is supposedly working on an "Tesla Autopilot" competitor.   You would think that Apple would want to keep a talented employee that had a difficult decision to leave because he loved Apple but yet wanted to try something new after 30 years.   One employer (Elon Musk) showed he cared about his wants and one didn't.
    Chris Lattner is leaving for Tesla in a VP position, so he's in charge of the entire Autopilot Software team. What if that position is already filled within Apple, which is a huge possibility? Would he have taken on "lesser" role to stay at Apple?

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/apple-taps-blackberry-talent-as-car-project-takes-software-turn

    Of course its impossible for us to know for sure.  If he loves Apple as much as he says he does and he's as good as Elon thinks he is,  I'm sure Apple could have or should have come up with something that Lattner would have been happy with.   Just saying, something does not seem right here.
    Unlike other ex-Apple engineers, he seems to be going out of his way to defend Apple and calm fears that Apple is crumbling. 
    Which makes it all the more strange.   I commend him for not bad mouthing his ex-company because that's how you are suppose to act when you leave.  But either, he is lying about his feelings for Apple and is just trying to be civil and nice or he really does love Apple and had a hard time leaving.  In either case something is not right at Apple.  Instead of going with the Apple is crumbling scenario, I believe what he says and lean towards, there are so many layers of mundane management that his voice of wanting to move on to something new, fell of deaf ears.  On the opposite spectrum, when a visionary CEO such as Elon directly entrusts you to be VP of a department in a single swoop, it makes you feel important and wanted.  Bottom line,  Apple lost a talented employee that says he wanted to stay for many more years.   One CEO let it happen, one made it happen.  Thats the difference between a passionate visionary CEO and one name Tim Cook.
    "But either, he is lying about his feelings for Apple and is just trying to be civil and nice or he really does love Apple and had a hard time leaving."

    He is highly respected, not only within Apple, but within the developer & Open Source community. I can't see what he would gain by lying.
    I didn't say he was lying, I was just responding to a point that he didn't bad mouth Apple on his way out.  Any thing anybody says is either the truth or a lie.  Just two sentences down, I said I believe what he said is the truth and then went on saying that you don't let a person of that caliber go.   So if you believe that he "had a hard time leaving Apple" and that is only reason was to "try something different like Car AI" and Apple happens to be doing work in that exact field, why is a "highly respected" and talented long time employee now working for a competior?
    elijahg