opinion

I wish Apple could give us the option to turn computational photography off.

I also wish Apple would surprise us and do something really unusual - bring back Target display mode to the 5K Intel iMacs with support for camera, microphone and speakers - then you should see a rocket increase of sales of the new Mac mini and Mac Studio and probably portable Macs too! Because to offer a new Apple display that in some cases is more expensive than a Mac is madness but by adding support for Target display mode to Intel 5K iMacs a lot of people could afford to move on to M-series Macs. And as a bonus it would be a ”green” initiative from Apple to be able to still use the old iMacs as displays.

Regarding how much the 24” iMac costs now with decent specs, imagine how much one with over 30” display would cost. Especially with the prices of their current displays. I still would like a 27” iMac though it would be expensive too but not as super expensive as one with an even bigger display. 

I think a lot of us waited for a 27” version but Apple seems to do less and less what people want and more and more what Apple want. Sad development and an equation that won’t turn out well in some years if it continues.

I like Apple but they are not always making it easy to do so anymore. I miss the feeling that was kind of "it is us users and Apple together". Now it is more "it is us customers and Apple on the other side profiting on us". Of course Apple is a company and it is interested in making profits, it was of course like that earlier on too but this feeling of being profited on is quite obvious now, more than it used to be. Apple was also doing things that made you think "Wow, this works so much better than the average solution" or "Why didn't anyone think of this smart feature before" but it is getting more and more into "Why did Apple make it this way, it is so user unfriendly". I never understood those IT guys at some companies complaining about Apple and Mac OS. But nowadays I understand them more since I heard that they don't always get the best info to adjust their systems (containing some Mac users) before Apple changes some technologies drastically that mess things upp. I don't know if Microsoft do that better but it seems so. I still like Apple though, but please listen more to your customers even if you think you have a smarter solution or at least explain more why some features is so much better from your opinion. And, yes - lower the prices. I know very well the importance of pricing on perceived value and as a marketing tool. But has it not got a bit too far? No need to "make the best products" if people can't afford them and if companies choose to have non Mac policies partly because of the price (and the non communication as I got it). Think different!