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WarrenBuffduckh said:

lordjohnwhorfin said:

If switching the Mac to AppleSilicon is not disruptive I don’t know what is. The amount of planning and flawless execution in a large number of areas is staggering.
The article is also minimizing the AirPods when they are in their way just as disruptive as the iPhone and the iPad have been.
Innovation at Apple is alive and well.

Contrary to what you assume, AS is continuity innovation - improving existing products in an existing line of business.
Disruptive innovation would require existing business to be disrupted/substituted by new and more comprehensive/immersive product(s)
Like superseding iPod by iPhone, or Mac/iPad product lines with something revolutionary new like the TouchMac, that would cannibalize existing business to launch something bigger and better.
The current Apple (via Catalyst, TouchBar and other compromises) is avoiding the TouchMac as much as it can, now that it has become more dependable to the immense, existing volumes the giant, defensive incumbent as per Tim’s strategy leaving disruptive innovation to leaner, more flexible (startup-) companies.
For example, it will avoid foldable phones (that would challenge/risk iPad sales) as much as it can, until competitors will prove it to be a new indispensible category too which it then will respond.
Note: Samsung is amongst them - it can attack Apple in this arena as it has less to lose in the tablet category
Project Titan had the aim of disrupting the car industry, but it never materialised

Or maybe Apple will let the “leaner” companies (nevermind calling Samsung “lean”) throw stuff at the wall to see what sticks (spoiler: it never does, not really), with shitty materials and/or execution, while they toil away in secret perfecting their own killer, market-dominating approach.

You people seem to forget that the iPhone wasn’t the first big-screen phone (most of them had resistive and/or plastic screens, instead of the Gorilla Glass capacitance screen Apple ultimately went with), the iPad wasn’t the first “tablet” computer (though its predecessors were all really crappy Windows-based affairs), the Apple Watch wasn’t the first smartwatch, the AirPods most definitely weren’t the first Bluetooth earphones, yadda yadda.

Apple will only make a foldable phone if it can produce a screen that doesn’t have to be treated with… even more care than current Apple products; Apple will also go for a touchscreen Mac that actually makes sense from an ergonomic and functional standpoint, probably something like an iMac/Surface Studio hybrid thing. The thing is, Microsoft’s attempt always cost an arm and a leg for an outdated, IO-lmited, thermally constrained machine; with Apple Silicon and all their new technologies such as SwiftUI, Catalyst, etc. – which I’d finally consider as a factor of convergence, not divergence/preservation of the status quo as you posit –, perhaps it will finally make sense to run touchscreen and even pen-based apps on a Mac.

Heck, you already can do so with Side Car, and while Apple will gladly sell you both a laptop and a tablet, big touch/stylus screens are impractical as mobile products and there’s definitely a market for them on, incidentally, a niche where Apple is already extremely strong and well covered when it comes to software support.

I’m not sure whether Wacom is a publicly traded company or not, but if it is and I had some stock, I would get rid of it entirely, STAT. Sure, über-rich pros might still buy a Cintiq and a Mac Pro, but just imagine how affordable a 5K touchscreen iMac would be by comparison… It would actually become much more accessible to the education market, small businesses and freelancers on a tighter budget. And, yes, it would be much more luggable than a Surface Studio or a Cintiq and a Mac Mini if it was built like a giant iPad with a foldable kickstand (I’m keenly aware that I’m just describing a giant Surface Pro at this point, funnily enough; what changes the whole paradigm is the software, the silicon and the ambition, really). It’s not like art students aren’t already used to carry unwieldy A2- and A1–sized briefcases full of paper, and sometimes even larger media. With Intel chips, Apple could only ever cobble up, by design, something very conventional or otherwise crippled in some way; that’s why they didn’t even bother with redesigning the iMac, and that’s why they apparently effed up with the thinner MacBook Pros (it wasn’t Apple engineers who screwed up; Intel screwed up – and accidentally screwed them over – further up the supply line)… With Apple Silicon… who knows what they’ll come up, really?

Objectively and geometrically speaking, the leaf design is way too similar and it’s on the same side. Also, its angle is similar, only mirrored. Apple does have a bit of a leg to stand on here, I’m afraid.

And no, I’m not (just) a fanboy, but a future PhD in design, and even an undergrad with a keen eye would spot the similarities right away… This isn’t much different from spotting plagiarism in typography, you just have to overlay the curves and see how well they match. Do you want me to?

lkrupp said:

I only have one question. Who is this “serial leaker” and what is his track record? I know, that’s two questions. So shoot me.

SpamSandwich said:

lkrupp said:

I only have one question. Who is this “serial leaker” and what is his track record? I know, that’s two questions. So shoot me.

His tweet doesn’t even qualify as a leak. It’s vague to the point of absurdity.

He's a pretty big deal, actually. And have you considered that he's being vague on purpose, so as to create suspense and not to give too much away re. his sources? He's almost Apple-like in the way he leaks Apple releases. I actually find it charming and exciting.

Eric_WVGG said:

lkrupp said:

I only have one question. Who is this “serial leaker” and what is his track record? I know, that’s two questions. So shoot me.

He predicted basically everyone new in iOS, MacOS (including the name Big Sur and the redesign), even the "hand washing timer" on WatchOS, all before WWDC
https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/06/22/macos-1016-big-sur-ios-14-going-to-see-big-user-interface-changes-says-leaker

Exactly. I have a little theory as to why he's being discredited by default; he's Chinese, and as his name on Twitter isn't latinized, somehow he's not even being given a proper “identity” to speak of.

Seeing how most westerners can't read a single Han character (by the way, his name, according to Google Translate, means “have you figured it out?”, which is meta and cryptic enough in and of itself), let's take his Twitter handle instead (which, incidentally, fits better with the whole “dream” theme he uses), shall we? Appleinsider should've done better and written the headline as “Apple ready to ship new products, says serial leaker L0vetodream”. There, problem solved!

You see, I've seen enough reports on his tweets which turned out to be 100% accurate, so… let's give this guy the notoriety he deserves.

Wait, maybe I’m missing something here, so please bear with me:

tylersdad said:

The same people who do not use technology in a safe and responsible manner are very likely not self-aware enough to actually realize they need to turn on DND.

As you’ve said, it isn’t an Apple problem, but Apple is the company that usually develops OSes who work *for* you, hence DND While Driving being a feature which turns on itself and which you actually have to actively turn off in order to use your device in a car.

It’s a bit of a double-whammy, really; not only does Apple prevent quite a few deadly accidents by default that way, they also save themselves from legal trouble in the event those *do* happen, as they will be entirely and unequivocally the end-users’ fault.