majorsl

Ug. Loud and clear: "My data, not yours."

*sigh* Are PCIe slots such a hard concept for Apple to grasp?  I don't want a stack of pancakes, I want a Mac with slots so industry standard components can be used and vendors are encouraged to provide Mac support for their, in many cases, existing hardware.

Seriously, why is this so hard?  Why does Apple seemingly need to take it all to the Nth degree?

I get it, "pretty and slick", but some people don't care and would like a functional, expandable Mac.

Maybe they see how well the Mac Pro tower is doing, all these years later, and still going because of its modular design and are frightened on the lack of return in dollars to them for such a well designed and elegantly expandable machine.

bitmod said:

Hubris. 
And history repeats itself... 

Show me 1 decision by Apple in the last year that was beneficial to the customer more-so than Apple? You can't. 
This company has become more about the shareholders and influence than it has about innovation, industrial design, and the customer experience. 

Completely ignoring their customers needs and instead telling their customers what they want. 
You know, all the "Pro" users out there screaming for secretly throttled phones and bent iPads for obscene money. 

Hubris. 
Brought them down before - it's bringing them down again. 
Can try and deflect with China all you want Tim - but when the stock hits $84 this summer you're gone. 

Exactly. My old boss who was an Apple Store owner and did education for the schools in the 80s/90s used to say, "Apple's cycle is do something really well, then get greedy and stupid, then fall, then repeat."

jimh2 said:

Why are they wasting their time with this. Chrome is king.

Because if they just bundled Chrome "as is", they probably couldn't get their ad revenue from a customized browser loaded with their hooks in it.

Ironic that going forward on Windows I'll be using a Chrome-based browser to install Chrome.

Rayz2016 said:

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toxicman said:

Seriously!  A fully configured Mac Mini without keyboard, mouse and monitor is over $4299!

for what?  I7 6 core, with 64gb ram and a 1.5tb SSD.   That’s a $1800 PC.  Come on apple.  Get real.  

Who’s forcing you to order the maxed-out top-tier machine? Are you OK? Do you need help?

Oh, you’re just whining about price. Would it make you feel better if Apple didn’t offer that top-tier? If everyone of all income-levels had to buy the same exact lower-tier machine? Would that make it better?

Even the lower spec'd machines are ridiculously overpriced. I guess some people don't mind paying for "awesome engineering as a feature". Count me out. The value proposition just isn't there. And don't give me that crap about Apple using more awesomer components than every other computer manufacturer. They source the same parts as every other manufacturer. They don't get better Intel I3 chips. They don't get better RAM. They don't get better hard drives. 

And so it begins … 🤣

And how is he wrong? That observation is spot on, regardless of Mac model.