Donvermo

evilution said:

People don't buy Macs to play games on, so no loss.

VR can be used for more than just gaming though.

1) Calling inductive charging "fake wireless charging" is ridiculous. Not understanding what induction is doesn't mean it's a fake technology.

2) A dock doesn't make the connection any faster as you still need to plug it into the port and then remove it from the port with a certain amount of force.

3) Inductive charging or a SmartConnector would simply allow for easier charging. How is that iHome Alarm Clock working out for your in your car when you drive?

How would a charging mat work in a car exactly then? You put the mat on your dashboard and then hope both the mat and the phone stay in place while you drive?
I see the appeal of wireless charging but as long as the distance cannot exceed 10 cm I really do not see the point. All it would do is take up extra hardware space inside the iPhone (yes you need extra hardware for this) and it would drive up the cost of the phone without any real tangible gain.

Interesting read, I never knew about the extra options on the wifi and bluetooth menus.

This hole 'fake news' thing is all caused by the fact that the mainstream media has shown that we can no longer rely on them to get journalism right and actually verify claims that they themselves report as news. People then look to the internet for 'sources' and then subsequently fail to verify them. If everyone and their dog can run a 'news organisation' on the web then it comes as no surprise that many if not most of them have even lower journalistic standards than the current mainstream media. This does not however mean that there are no legitimate 'news organisations' on the web that do actually practice proper journalism, the problem is that the average joe can no longer distinguish between what is tabloid gossip and what is factual news.

People are lazy and they expect journalists to do the investigative work for them, as they should, and not have to scour the internet to verify if the cited sources indeed check out. Fix the credibility issue by either having main stream media clean up their act or provide a solid and easy to find alternative for the masses that they can rely on.

Soli said:

nubus said:

Selling phones is not going to improve the focus, features, or quality of macOS or the computers we use as our main tool for work.

Not only will it in the future, but it's already done so with most (if not all) macOS upgrades since the 2007. Then you have iOS going through a simpler deduction from macOS to become watchOS. Now Watch can used to unlock your Mac and use with Apple Pay. Those are improvements for the Mac. Then you have all the iCloud-based services that interconnect macOS, iOS, and watchOS so that your pictures, iMessages, phones calls, and even a shared keyboard are seamless between devices. Even more crazy is that watchOS was further reduced and built into the version of OS X that resides on the T1-chip to control the Mac's new Touch Bar, with Touch ID, and built-in Apple Pay. All those technologies first started with the iPhone. These are not trivial innovations.

While everything you say here is true I believe the original poster is trying to say that while the huge profit Apple is experiencing with iPhones is good for the company (and share holders) financially, a shift in focus in order to maximise those profits may result, in an extreme case, in Apple not investing enough time, love and care into the macOS platform itself. The features you described are all awesome additions that improve productivity on these machines but if the foundation (the OS itself) becomes too neglected it will not matter in the long run.

While I am still confident myself that Apple has plenty left up its sleeve to wow me away I do believe those concerns are legitimate. The recent issues with erratic power consumption (that become apparent in consumer testing) and the heavy memory usage at idle are some of those small imperfections that could easily have been noticed and fixed during QA testing. If Apple still cares as much as it claims it does about macOS then it should step up its game a little and show that to the users, a new Snow Leopard-eqsue update might just do the trick.