DavidEsrati

Someone gets mad- makes a message saying someone is going to do something bad- and leaves a real sounding message on someone elses voicemail...

no, just no...

Apple, I am starting to want to break up with you....

$80 a year subscription is the deal breaker. I don't dive year round. Should be able to rent it for a week or 2 at a time- like Tesla does with FSD.

The whine about the lack of integration with a PSI gauge is ridiculous. I've been diving since before any of these dive computers existed- and a pressure gauge is the cheapest most accurate piece of gear. It's also one I wouldn't trust to anything with a battery.

But- this was the "RAID for the rest of us" and worked amazingly well- until it didn't.

The hot swappable drives were amazing- so easy to maintain.
I'll be sad to see them go- but, if they think they are going to come out of bankruptcy- and get people to believe in them again- they have so much reputation management that needs to happen. Lying about supply chain issues- or repairs- doesn't build customer confidence.

When they stripped out features- my small business which depended on it's features was thrown into a mess of problems-

much like when our last Airport Extreme bit the dust.

Gone was our easy internal messenger-

gone was our internal wiki and dns setups.
Our file sharing permissions started going wonky.
Our centralized Time machine died-

and - all of a sudden first we have to try the VPP system of software licenses- then the even more complicated Apple business manager- which wasn't set up for business at all- but for schools.
The whole concept of Apple ID- for a shop with multiple computers- owned by a company- and assigned to employees- got super complicated-
and it was super frustrating.
Now- we have a raspberry pi running our DNS and our Wiki
we're constantly having our apple messages go to personal phones instead of computers-

time machine- may or may not work with the remote drives- and stops frequently.
File sharing permissions get garbled more and more-
And in a day when collaboration is all the rage-
we're using fontbase to manage fonts-
and a bunch of other programs that are halfassed collaboration tools- that should be where Apple is scoring big time.

I wonder if anyone at Apple remembers when Apple was a small business?
Because they sure don't act like they care about mine.
Bring back Apple server. Please. Please. With all of it's ease of use capabilities.

This computer would never have made it to daylight if Jony Ive was still at Apple.

Ports- plenty of them- even in the front? Unbelievable.
Looks like it can cool itself- and isn't a funky shape that no one knows what to do with- ie Cube or Trash Can Mac Pro.

Still not upgradeable- no slots- while every PC in this price range can and does do both.

I'm waiting on one. We'll see what it runs like when it shows up.