hucom2000

Rayz2016 said:

hucom2000 said:

I'm a mac user for - gosh - 22 years. I was prepared to be "underwhelmed", instead I find myself utterly disappointed.

Not because the MacBook Pro isn't a great evolutionary machine (I already ordered one), but because it's the ONLY announcement. 
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Sans the ranting, I mostly agree. This could have been released without an event and would have saved us endless pages of Sog's cerebral flatulence. 

Having said that, it's time to melt a credit card :-D

I know, I'm sorry about the ranting. I kinda lost it there...

But you do have to wonder, how much it would actually cost, to keep these products current? I'm not talking about "innovation" or complete re-designs. I'm just talking about updating the components. Apple used to do this "silently" on a regular basis (sometimes several times a year, for those of us who remember the PowerPC times). No big fuss, but they always kept their system up-to-date with the latest processors and graphics, added more RAM, etc. And that was during a financially much more trying time (!). Now that they have the resources, they just stop caring? WT... No, I won't rant again. 

I'm a mac user for - gosh - 22 years. I was prepared to be "underwhelmed", instead I find myself utterly disappointed.

Not because the MacBook Pro isn't a great evolutionary machine (I already ordered one), but because it's the ONLY announcement. Seriously, Apple? SERIOUSLY? After all this time of not giving your former core business any loving, THIS is it??

What happened to making the best products? Make it outstanding, or don't make it? Not updating products for year just so obviously lacks dedication and determination to be the best. They just go where the money is. That's not a good strategy. They should take care of their ecosystem, keep niche products alive.

And what pisses me off most of all, is that Apple could EASILY AFFORD to keep their "hobby products" (is that what the Mac is these days?) current. It wouldn't hurt them! They could do it. So I really don't understand it. I'm so f**** frustrated with them. *Sorry*

Biased reviews, such as this one, really make me wonder if it's just product placement... give AI a bunch of money and they'll write a glowing review. A magnetic side brush? Seriously? It falls off all the time (=unusable), but other than that, the product is GREAT! Oh yes, and Roombas suck. 

I have a Roomba 980 for half a year now, which maps the apartment, goes back to the charging station if necessary during cleaning, can be controlled through an iOS app from anywhere over the internet. It's a huge step up from the previous, arbitrary devices and I'm genuinely happy with it. The house is always clean and it neatly sits on its charing station when I come home. A robotic vacuum in general was one of the best purchases ever.

I find Siri utterly frustrating in it's current form.

I'll start using it when I can follow up on a question I just asked. As of now it fails to recognise the connection between any two lines of dictation in almost all cases.

An exception I found is: "what's the weather like in NY?" (result) "What about next week?" - and Siri actually display the weather for the coming week.

Apple will only start to pay "proper" taxes in the US, if these tax heavens are eliminated. That's what the European Union is after. It just happens to be Apple (a US company) and it happens to be on a massive scale. Remember the billions in fines the Swiss banks had to pay in the US for tax evasion? It's all about trying to keep countries from gaining unfair advantages over other countries. The same way Switzerland had built it's financial system on bank secrecy, Ireland built it's economy on luring international companies with insanely low tax rates. It's not really about Apple or the US, this is about Ireland playing by the rules. Just like Switzerland a few years ago, Ireland is now paying the price for it's actions. And the companies that went along with it get punished. So they should. They knew all along that 1) it's not right, and 2) at some point it would come to light.