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9secondkox2 said:

Jony is the best industrial designer ever. 

The man had so many absolutely epic home run hits that it’s ridiculous. 

The engineers failed on the scissor keyboard, Intel lagged to the point that the thinnest MacBook Pro design wasn’t the best for performance and the apple board was stuck in analysis paralysis when it came time to move all-in on thunderbolt and ditch legacy tech, stopping at the notebook lineup. 

Some like to blame Ive for those mistakes, but the reality is he wasn’t a man on an island doing that - it was apple as a whole. 

Still, even if you did want to blame Ive, a rare miss (MacBook Pro 2015-2020) is a drop in the proverbial ocean of successes, which have defined Apple aesthetics forever much as Porsche’s designers have long ago. 

And he wasn’t just successful, his products literally brought apple back from the dead - to becoming the most valuable company on earth. From iMac to iPod to iPhone to iPad, to notebooks to Mac Pro to AirPods to you name it. The guy has the Midas touch. His designs not only sold apple products, but revolutionized entire industries. Today, all smartphones look like his iPhone, notebooks? Just take a peek at Microsoft surface laptops and Samsungs. Tablets? It’s ridiculous. AirPods have their design copycats as well. 

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and Jony Ive is flattered often by entire industries. 

The man is a living legend and apple will always owe him a debt of gratitude. 

Everyone loves a mouse with the charging port on the bottom just because he didn't wanna see a charging port on it. So useful! He made some nice things like the original iMac, iPod, and original iPhone but he let his success get to his head and needed Steve to reel him back in a little....unfortunately after Steve passed away his designs may have looked cool but overall as a product his designs just sucked and were very impractical. 

9secondkox2 said:

Probably in the fall. 

Should get Studio and Pro this Summer. 

I think the timing is looking good for a new large iMac in 2026 if not next year with things lining up:

1) the rumblings of Apple possibly going thin again. 

2) 2nm chips - would allow for the Ultra in a large iMac even if it’s thin. 

But for the m4 generation, a Pro and Studio this summer and thinner devices like small iMac or MBP in the fall. I’m guessing MBP with iMac waiting until early next year. 

If this supposed M4 Extreme is coming out I'd guess it won't be out until next year once the capacity is better. I do think they need to update both the Mac Studio and Mac Pro ASAP though. They're a shit Mac right now at not worth the money. 

Fred257 said:

Trump is going to lose in an absolute landslide. Both candidates are senile. Is this the best as a country we can do? Sad…

One can only hope that he loses in a landslide...the country is very very divided right now. If there's one thing Trump is really good at it's dividing people and being an excellent bullshitter. He's created a societal civil war in our country and it's sad. Everything is us versus them and you're either with me or against me. The country will not be well at all if he wins the election and is in office for another 4yrs. He doesn't know WTH he's doing. He doesn't know how to deal with actual issues. This is why he completely flopped the pandemic. Even people that worked with him says he's really stupid and just doesn't have a clue. I will gladly take 4 more years of President Biden. After Biden I think we'll have some pretty decent candidates. 

AppleZulu said:

Kuo will change his predictions for this several times, capped off by one final ‘no, wait…’ pronouncement 12 hours before the actual release. He will then continue to be lauded for his “reliably correct” predictions as the constant flailing about is lost to the fog of history once again. 

They all do this IMO. They hear something and throw shit at the wall to see if it sticks. If not, change your story and repeat until you're right (or mostly right). 

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If Apple ever makes a 27 or 32" Apple Pro Studio Display that worked with Apple Pencil and was "decently" priced I think that would really hurt Wacom. I just don't know how much of a market there is for Apple to develop such a display. 

I’ve always said that the Windows Studio PC is what the iMac should have become: a display you can move freely to a tablet layout and Pencil friendly. I really wish the Mac Studio was this.

Totally agreed. I hope the delay in launching a massive apple silicon iMac is for that reason - to make it the ultimate creative machine. 

When the ms surface desktop came out and was so capable and date I say innovative, I kept wondering how in the world apple could not have gone there first. The creative suite on touch iMac would be fantastic. If apple has any ambitions to take on Adobe, that would be a great start. 

I don't think Apple has any ambitions of taking on Adobe and I don't think it needs to. This needs to be a separate display, not an integrated display so when the hardware is out of date someone has to buy the display again just to upgrade their hardware. It would be silly IMO for them to make this the iMac and Apple is not releasing an iMac Pro. It makes no sense at all to release an iMac Pro when they have Mac Studio out which is doing extremely well for them. 

Tell that to the IPhone, Ipad, MacBook, and iMac owners. 

It really doesn’t need to be a separate display. At all. 

But if Apple ALSO added the capabilities to stsndalone displays, great! Win-win. 

99.9999999% of iMac owners couldn't care less about using an Apple Pencil on their screen. The ones who would are buying Macs that that are designed to do that kind of work such as a Mac Studio or Mac Pro. You will never make sense in your comments with this. You never have and never will. You just keep harping on the iMac Pro coming back and why and it never will dude. Give it up.