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Watch: Apple's iMac Pro vs 2013 Mac Pro (Part 1) - benchmarks and specs
Still waiting for a pro modular. The cylinder was ridiculous – form over function and the all-in-one approach is only for mid-range pros. I'll continue to use my tower until an actual from-the-ground-up Mac _finally_ arrives. We haven't seen the introduction of a totally _serious_ pro machine in a new form factor since the arrival of the G5, which was FOURTEEN years ago. I will never understand Apple's mentality regarding high-end pro users. It is ridiculous.
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Apple's iOS 11 installed on 65% of compatible devices, up 6% from December
iOS upgrade stats has only one real purpose: serving the needs of developers in determining the rate of technical advancement for their apps. As Apple does its very best to shove upgrades down users throats, their attempt to make hay from the stats is total B.S. The business of trying to force upgrades on users is a direct betrayal of Apple's founding principle of serving the users. Apple has absolutely no respect for its customers. It eternal ivory tower approach is and always has been the worm in the apple.
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First look: Apple's powerful iMac Pro
For pros at the level of large corporations, this is great. For all other pros (say, 98%) this is waaaaay too expensive.
As usual, Apple is focusing on the super cool and (as all the decision makers are multimillionaires) they figure $5,000 is reasonable.
I'm a pro and I do just about everything - web, video / high-end effects, motion graphics, all sorts pf art., and even publishing. But I do not need a 4K display. Frankly, I don't set my 27's to their maximum resolution because I don't have to, and even using Accesibility to make the system text and cursor a reasonable size, there are still a lot of apps I use with UIs that were designed for a resolution that was mainstream five years ago. If Apple's going to provide a 4K monitor, it should certainly be larger than the one with the iMac Pro.
They need to offer a version with a lower resolution and cut a thousand bucks from the price. They clearly do not understand that a freelancer can't compete when buying this $5K machine forces them to raise their prices. Can I adjust my budget to come up with another $350 a month for 18 months? Not without sacrificing other things.
Clients can be very picky. If they see two comparable online portfolios and one designer charges an extra $10 an hour, they's go will the cheaper price – with the guy who is not having to pay for a $5K computer.
Typical Apple thinking. If someone is a pro, they need the best machine so they can make the most bucks. Apple takes a $2,500 cut and adds to its trillion dolllar slush fund.
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Long-running Apple rag MacUser Magazine shuts its doors after 30 years
This is not the same MacUser as some people think. MacUser was a US publication that was purchased and shut down by MacWorld in 1997. There was a very large number of people who were angry at MacWorld for doing this (seethingly furious, actually). I still remember the last issue – it had a teaser for the never-to-appear subsequent issue about a feature article covering the entire publication process for an issue of MU. It was like the final episode of Mork and Mindy part two fo a two-part cliffhanger (Mork comes out as an alien to the President in the Oval Office), which was yanked and never aired.
MW did this simply to reduce the competition. What they did was to cut the amount of monthly Mac content in half. Most of my friends subscribed to both.
Back then, both MU (the better magazine, IMHO) and MW carried an enormous amount of advertising, with issues running up to 200 pages. The more ads, the more content.
I still have years of MU and MW in boxes in the closet. It's great fun to dig through them every couple of years. The issues of both covering the introduction of the LC, SI and Classic (the original monochrome reissue) was really exciting. Mac marketshare was still ahead of Windows and the new herd was a huge game-changer – the biggest leap in Mac popularity until the debut of the bondi iMac.
When MW killed MU, things had changed. After years of brain-dead marketing, Windows was kicking the Mac's tailfeathers. Right when Mac users were relying on the constant monthly input, MU was gone. The message was that MW didn't care about Mac owners; just about money. But that's water twenty years under the bridge.
Too bad about MU/UK. It kept the spirit alive.
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Genius Bar doesn't hire retired Apple engineer, fires up age discrimination debate
Age discrimination is a serious issue - or at least it is for those who are impacted by it.
I see a lot of poorly informed comments here and a lot of creative suppositions. Where to start?
An Apple Genius is trained and certified, regardless of age. Other store positions also require training. Saying that a 19 year old's up-to-date certification is more valid than a sixty year old's up-to-date certification is absurd.As for the wisdom of long experience, it can be much more valuable than that of a young tunnel-visioned genius. (Ever had an issue where an upgrade produced one new shiny thing and killed two much more important things? Or where a change in the OS reduces your productivity because it forces you to work in very narrow ways? Thank the people who don't have the sense or wisdom tounderstand what it is they are destroying.)
I've been a victim of this in very big ways. My portfolio is impressive - a lot of high profile work generating millions of dollars in sales for major well-known brands. But I have to choose between including a lot of my well-known work over the years or keeping the resume over one page. And when the year I graduated is right there at the top, it doesn't matter anyway. They won't read one word more. They may have 100 resumes to choose from and mine will be rejected without reading. Of course, I could lie, include only my best work, change the years and get an interview, but I was raised to tell the truth.
And if you have ever walked into an interview and seen the smiling face of the interviewer instantly turn into a scowl, followed by ten minutes of them asking questions and not listening, then saying goodbye after only fifteen minutes, you will know what discrimination is.
Every single person has seen and is familiar with multiple examples of my work over the years – feature films, national TV commercials, store shelves, etc., but when you receive only two calls from over one hundred individually tailored resumes tailored by an expert in marketing communications whose won multiple industry awards - one does become suspicious. (And if my mother weren't dying I would not have left the highly responsible and well-paying job I had, which threw me into the world of age discrimination, I might have been much less sensitive to this issue.
