Fidonet127

jkmutah said:

Fidonet127 said:

When has there been WWDC main keynote longer than two hours? I don't think so. They will not announce all those Macs at WWDC, unless they are revolutionary. They maybe release them the same day, but not announce them. This is a developer's conference, not a hardware conference.

Someone says this every year and someone else discredits this statement every year.  Hardware has been announced SEVERAL times at WWDC.  Why do people keep saying this?

You misread what I said. Yes hardware is announced at many WWDCs, and there is highly likely there will be hardware announced this year. This is developers conference, where most of the keynote is software. To expect all of these Macs to be announced is silly. That would be make this a heavy hardware conference. Why would the Air be announced this WWDC? What feature with the Air is so good, as to take away time from all the software feature? What is it about the Air that is pro enough to be announced with all the other Pro level Macs and goggles? 

When has there been WWDC main keynote longer than two hours? I don't think so. They will not announce all those Macs at WWDC, unless they are revolutionary. They maybe release them the same day, but not announce them. This is a developer's conference, not a hardware conference.

9secondkox2 said:

tenthousandthings said:

No one has mentioned the most pertinent aspect of the idea of a trade-in program, it allows people who bought a Studio Display with Mac Studio to update to M2 without, you know, having to buy a new display along with it.

This is in contrast to the past, when if you wanted to update your 5K iMac to the current silicon, you bought a new 5K iMac. 

This could be featured in the keynote, in the sense that Apple’s desktop line will be like the mobile line, with everything getting the current silicon when it is ready (“no Mac left behind”). If a Mac Pro is introduced with modular components that can also be traded in for the current silicon, then the transition will be complete.

Unfortunately that makes no sense. 

You miss the fact that if you trade in your iMac, you get a brand new display with it. With the Mac Studio trade, you have to keep the old display, missing out on any upgrades and improvements, not to mention just plain newness. 

That’s in favor of iMac. Again. 

Literally the only thing the Mac Studio has over a new large iMac is the ability for Apple to give customers a far worse financial proposition. 

Literally???? No, the Studio's advantage also has to do with the Studio is a headless Mac. There is many use cases for a headless Mac ok???? You are not going to rack mount an iMac. How often does a monitor need to be upgraded? Ok newness, what a trivial reason. That iMac is not exactly portable. What about multi-monitor setups? Tweeting the iMac isn't bad, but it doesn't exactly match the other monitors. Seems a lot easier to swap some cables, than move or re-mount an iMac. 

Unless there is something revolutionary about the air, such as solid state battery, or something, it won't be presented. Too much hardware for all the hardware to be presented. 

The Studio isn't or shouldn't be replaced by the Mac Pro. The Mac Pro is intended as your highest processing power Mac and the price reflected that. At the time the Mac Pro was released there was a lot of negative comments that the price was way over their budget. The Studio fills in this gap nicely. 

It is humorous that people are wishing Apple develop these apps, keep them updated and add new features and yet complain about a subscription. Apple hasn’t made the Mac apps a subscription and you are not required to use the app on the iPad. The Mac apps didn’t stop working. It amazes me that people complain about subscription or other pro software costs, yet the iPads this runs on are over a thousand dollars. You are going to want to max those iPads out just for storage.

starting out or need a pro level app for a short bit? Buy a month or so, or even a year. Much lower start up costs than $199 or $299 the main app costs. Personally, add a subscription option to the desktop apps so you don’t have to pay full price.