elijahg

I'm glad Apple's promised to update the MP rather than cancel it, and an iMac Pro would be great. Apple has a habit of making products people don't want (Trashcan Mac Pro), or want but are overpriced or not updated often enough  (Xserve, G4 Cube, current Mac Mini, Mac Pro), or without enough features/ports (MacBook Pro, AppleTV, Mac Pro) and then cancelling them because people aren't buying them.

I fear eventually the iPad will go the same way with its too-limiting iOS. The iPad hardware is great, but it needs a better OS. I hate to say it but MS has hit the nail on the head with the Surface. It's infinitely more powerful than an iPad, not due to hardware, but software. 

Brilliant news at last, on the updates to the current trash can and even better that they're redesigning it to be a proper computer once more. Along with the promised new displays, this has restored my faith in Apple. 

Why Apple didn't announce this a year ago when questions about its future first arose I have no idea. It would have saved so much frustration and angst among pro users. 

Now we just have to wait and see whether Apple stands by their promise, and that it's not 3x the price of the competition. 

macOS 10.12.4 is out too, and tvOS 10.2 update as well. Plus Pages 6.1, Numbers 4.1, Keynote 7.1, and Xcode 8.3.

macplusplus said:

dysamoria said:

macplusplus said:

Fake parts from China. Fake logic boards, fake circuits with espionage backdoors, giant botnets built with home-repaired phones and computers...

What you're describing is a RESULT of companies blockading the business of legit repair companies. There used to be tons of repair businesses decades ago.

Apple does not blockade the business of legit repair companies. They have Authorized Service Centers everywhere in the world. The proposed legislation might make service centers mandatory for every city and town but apparently their concern is not repair availability. That could be achieved easily with a mandatory service network.

Other than by favouring their own repair centres inside Apple Stores, and delaying sending components to second party repair centres. AI has reported that they've been reducing service (and upping prices) at Apple Authorised Resellers too. 

I think the right to repair legalisation is a good thing. Apple's green credentials for long term use of their products is complete crap, due to the non-repairability but no one (Greenpeace) seems to care about that. Using superglue for batteries for example is completely unnecessary. Glueing iMac screens on just to shave off another 5% thickness is unnecessary. This will force Apple to allow third party repairs, quite possibly leading to a reduction in first and second party repair costs. 

nightwatch said:

The iPad Pro can do anything a Surface can do but Apple isn't telling anyone about it because they don't want to hurt MacBook sales, which I think is foolish. 

Can I write & compile software on an iPad Pro? No I didn't think so. The Surface can, and the Macbook can. Can I easily transfer data from a Windows/Linux machine to the iPad Pro without messing about logging into iCloud and uploading files or emailing it to myself? No didn't think so. The Surface can, and the Macbook can. Can I run professional electronic simulation software on an iPad "Pro"? No. You see where this is going. iPads can't do anywhere near as much as a Surface can, and the reason is...

iPad needs a better OS. When it was first conceived, i(phone)OS was fine as a stop-gap, but now the iPad is held back so much by the software. The hardware is excellent bar lack of a USB port. IMO iOS on iPad has similarities with classic Mac OS, in that for the time, it's very limited and Apple doesn't seem to know where to take it. Multitasking is difficult, sharing files between apps is even worse. It really is much too limited for a supposed pro device, unless you're doing some task Apple's specifically catered for. Anything that doesn't fit into Apple's idea of what you should be doing with iPad is nigh-on impossible. I really would like a tablet I could write software on, and use as a real laptop replacement, but unfortunately the iPad Pro isn't it. I hate to say it, but Microsoft has eaten Apple's lunch with the capabilities of the Surface vs the iPad. "Pro", the iPad certainly is not.