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genovelle said:

I wonder how many iPhones spontaneously developed cracked screens over the years, when in fact people started carrying them in their back pocket. 

Ah, the "you're holding it wrong" excuse. If you make a phone and you can't carry it in your back pocket like tens of millions of people do, you failed making a decent phone.

am8449 said:

I'm starting to worry that Apple is listening to the tech pundits too much. Getting used to a new way of doing things always takes time, but tech pundits have a perverse incentive to complain loudly and quicker than the other guy. Think of all the decisions and designs Apple has made that were initially panned by tech pundits, even by those that were loyal to Apple. I'm not saying Apple shouldn't listen to outside opinions at all, but what's the right balance?

Well they could have tried working with their own software for a bit to find out why people got angry. If you change the most important app on the system in a way that severely impacts almost everyone, then yes, people complain.

hydrogen said:

MSFT has a customer support system ?

You clearly haven't had to deal with Apple Support yet.

Bombdoe said:

Beats said:

With Apple having a 10 year lead and inventing the platform how the hell have they allowed Spotify to even be a competitor??

On that basis Apple should never have entered the mobile phone business...

Apple had a hit with the iPhone that was building on a trend. Podcasts have been around for a lot longer than 10 years but are only now being heavily monetized. Apple is seemingly spread incredibly thin, given the glacial pace at which updates are coming out and loads of bugs never fixed. There is a lot of money in podcasts now but the power used to be with the creators, and this is now shifting to the platforms. Apple missed that boat and instead went into 'radio' and made an absolute crapper of a podcast app. Doesn't help.

I'm very worried how much an Mx Mac Pro is going to cost. Given this refresh, it's definitely not ready and memory will most likely be incredibly expensive. Maybe it will have support for external GPU's, even though we don't have much choice there. I guess we'll see a semi-pro mac first, for the price of the iMac Pro.