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Sad Apple is artificially blocking the likes of Spotify to have Siri integration. Driving is unsafe because of it.

New design! New design! iMacs look retro now, and not in a cool way.

racerhomie3 said:

The EU leeches are at it again.They are destroying Europe little by little.

 Nonsense. 

An incredible product. I started using them at the art academy and back then they were pretty horrible for professional use (the puck mouse, the keyboard, the overall speed) but it was clear how awesome they were for consumer use and how redefining ‘home computer’ lead to a much more attractive, easier product. 

I started using iMacs professionally when they became ‘aluminum’. It changed my perception of what a professional machine needed to be. Instead of the fastest graphics card, the easiest one to setup and the most elegant one to look at. Longer rendering times weren’t a problem if the screen was beautiful to look at and the system almost fail proof, needing no maintenance. In contrast to the clunky PC’s that had to deal with hours and hours of off-time and configuration. MacOS was truly the ‘brains’ of the beautiful iMac ‘body’. A walled garden with just enough balance between customization and protection for the end user.

My company always heavily invested in iMacs, today having over 80 employees of which many use iMacs. Unfortunately, raw speed on the client (not networked) has become much important, especially VR, and we have slowly replaced many of the iMacs with ugly PC’s. Mac Pros where never an attractive consideration.

The iMac is due for a redesign, having had the same design since 2007 (with some evolutionary changes). Apple is playing it too safe and other brands have proven to be really good at industrial design as well (but never had the same reaction as Apple). I would like to see a greener iMac, where the monitor is still part of the same computer design-wise, but can be detached from the computer (and therefore replaced). No more chin but bevel-less. Something fresh and new.

The iMac was as this article states truly revolutionary, and I hope the product will evolve for the years to come!

This is really annoying for developers. When publishing a game for android or iOS, you can’t exclude specific devices, only by minimum operating system or by just a handful of hardware capabilities (e.g Metal 1 or 2 support).
This means that when developing a game, backwards compatibility is totally crazy, adding dev cost and compromises to the game beyond ‘graceful fallback’.
I hope Apple will become more aware of this problem.

Also I’m not sure if it’s good for consumers. Again it will get people over to ios12 because it auto updates and people will realize how slow their device has become. Downgrading most people won’t because they don’t know how to, essentially creating the perception of their device becoming too slow to handle and somewhat quietly, gently forcing users to upgrade to a new device.

Just support old devices and let people stay using an old iOS version! Keep supporting security updates within reason for these legacy devices.

Best option? Get people to a subscription model, and make that financially attractive. This helps recycling of old devices and gets people to new devices.