kermit4krazy

I'm always amazed by things like this. Apple has about 60,000 employees. About half of them are working on the retail side, and the other 30k or so work for corporate. There weren't 100-200 people they could dedicate to designing and engineering a replacement display, oh, at some point over the past 5 years?? The company also has more money stockpiled than any other company on earth. Yes, I know that most of it is overseas, but the same goes for all the other huge companies too. They could have freed up some funds, is all I'm saying. 

Slowly but surely they're dropping more and more product lines to make room for more iPhone SKUs. They act like a rose gold phone is a big deal. No, a new Mac mini would be a big deal. A new Macbook with two ports would be a big deal. A new Macbook Pro with user-serviceable parts would be a big deal. A new version of Aperture would have been a big deal. A new Mac Pro would be a big deal. A new Thunderbolt display would have been a big deal.

Sorry, just been frustrated with Apple lately. I still love them, but I need a new Macbook Pro to replace my aging 2011 13" that I got new for $1,100 and then upgraded to a 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM myself, but I can't afford to pay Apple $2,500 for something new but comparable. 

macxpress said:

I wouldn't be surprised if they release a USB-C 5K display down the road.

In the meantime, people will just buy monitors made by someone else like Samsung. 

I can't believe that people think an even slower upgrade cycle is a good idea. The answer to all of this peak iPhone nonsense and talk of market saturation is to INNOVATE FASTER, not to slow down the rate of innovation. People will buy a new phone if it does amazing new things or is dramatically better, whether they already own an older model iPhone or not. 

Apple seems hell bent on further declining sales. 

rcfa said:

kermit4krazy said:

I just don't see how OIS is going to be a killer feature. It's already in the 6s+ and barely makes a difference. The real bottleneck to vastly superior image quality is sensor size. 

Well, multiple sensors through a lens array essentially can yield similar effects to a bigger sensor, which is why the dual lens setup is such a big deal...

No. Not hardly. Multiple sensors may minimally improve image quality, but nothing takes the place of a larger sensor. At best the image quality might be another evolutionary step up from what we have now, which is already pretty much what we get with every new iPhone version. I think to revitalize sagging iPhone demand Apple needs to be bolder than this. 

I'm sure I'll get berated and belittled for this, but it does seem ironic that Apple has agreed to help in this regard but now routinely refuses requests to aid law enforcement.