AppleExposed

CloudTalkin said:

nubus said:

CloudTalkin said:

nubus said:

How can ACSI report that Samsung is ahead of Apple in customer satisfaction for desktops in the US?
I get that Samsung is ahead of Apple in dishwashers, but how can Samsung be ahead in a category they don't have any products in?

Easy.  According to ACSI, customers who purchased Samsung desktops were overall more satisfied with their purchase than customers who purchased Apple desktops.  Quick example: Apple customers rated their desktop purchase satisfaction level at a 97 on average.  Samsung customers rated their desktop purchase satisfaction l

Let me repeat: The ACSI survey shows that customers prefer something that doesn't exist (Samsung doesn't sell desktops in the US) to Apple. The Samsung marketing team took that one a bit too far.

Samsung sold AiO desktops in the US.  You can still get them from Amazon and other online retailers.

AppleZulu said:

StrangeDays said:

bobolicious said:

Apple computers in my most recent experience no longer 'just work' and the only mac I'd consider now is an iMac I can still upgrade or replace consumables such as storage...

Is annual macOS churn for new hardware as brutal as Macworld was for product pipelines, eventually ended by SJ recognizing it was a big (just one of many) 'bag of hurt'...?

Even the most elemental mouse was 'upgraded' to 'onboard' proprietary batteries and the thing can't be used while it is being charged. Perhaps someone can explain how this (design or logic) change even remotely benefits customers...?

The loss of headphone jack on iPhone now begs an octopus of adapter dongle mess to use my 'better than apple' wired headphones and wall adapter.

Have macs gotten faster? Yes remarkably so (especially graphics) and yet we have a mini that now only has integrated graphics - try the eGPU reviews to understand why this is a non-starter.

We've lost so many basic useful features (target display, flex vesa mount for iMac, among others) - less is not more for this lifetime business user and regrettably increasingly reticent customer...

So much ignorance, so little time...

- Figure it out already: normals don't care about upgrading storage. I'm even a techie, have built countless machines, and I have zero interest in upgrading storage on any iMac. It's not worth the hassle, and DIY tinkering isn't why I bought a Mac. Few do, which is why no one cares about this issue. 

- I've had both the Magic Mouse w/ AAs and the new one w/ Lightning charging. The new one is way, way better. Why? Because I already have a Lightning charing cable coming out of my Mac to charge my iPhone, or my iPad, or my AirPods, or my Magic Keyboard, or my TouchPad. Add now my Mouse. It's a no-brainer. 

- Unlike you, I have and use the Mouse, and know first-hand that the OCD complaint by web commenters is meaningless. At no point would I ever, or do I need to, use the Mouse while charging it. Why? Because it now gets about a month of use. Afterward my Mac pushes a notification reminding me to charge it when I'm done for the day. And if I still managed to ignore that, I plug it in for a minute, as I pee or make a coffee or get water, and guess what? All day battery again. Oops. Are you actually saying if you somehow managed to not charge for a month, and ignored the warning, that you don't have 60 seconds to go pee?

- The iPhone has a headphone jack. A nice digital one. The loss of the legacy analog one means dick to 99% of the population, because most people use the headphones that come in the box. Additionally, I use bluetooth headphones (AirPods) which are amazingly awesome. At no point have I ever need any nonsense about dongles. Use the fucking adapter if you're so in love with your mini-phono headphones, nobody's stopping ya.

You dudes try so hard. Please your hearts. 

Yes, indeed. Some folks seem dedicated to rehashing these stock “complaints” that they allege are indicative of the downfall of Apple. As you’ve covered here, the flaws aren’t really flaws. I’ll just add to it that these complaints also ignore the design and reliability train wrecks that exist in the competition. The comparative windows and android stuff continues to be loaded with buggy bloatware, cutting-edge (in)compatibility problems, and highway-construction-based design aesthetics. Then you can top that off with the crickets in the peanut gallery when competitors like Samsung also ditch headphone jacks while quietly pulling their previous ads that mocked Apple for doing the same thing. 

ElCapitan said:

Timmy always put profit over values. Had he not, many things at Apple would have looked different.

mikethemartian said:

slurpy said:

ElCapitan said:

Timmy always put profit over values. Had he not, many things at Apple would have looked different.

I'm betting Tim Cook has stronger values than you could ever attain in 10 lifetimes. Not sure what your statement even means. In the context of big tech companies, I can't think of one that generally has better values than Apple, in a whole host of areas.

You could be a dude who throws a woman down a flight of stairs and then publicly jokes about it and Tim Cook will still do business with you.

justmark said:

Reminds of all those Bondi Blue iMac knockoffs back in the day... https://512pixels.net/2016/05/imac-clones/

tht said:

Frankly surprised they started so late, and are still 3 years out. Thought they were going to march right through the major chip functions with custom versions. CPU to GPU to Cellular modem, all right in their SoC. But perhaps the die sizes were going to be too big for what they wanted and punted on the cellular modem.