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  • Apple may face even higher iPhone taxes, import restrictions in India market

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    India has an election coming up next year.

    Hopefully the people will realize what a horrible mistake they made with Modi, and toss him out.

    And I'm not talking about Apple here, I'm talking about how absolutely horrible he is for the country.  Religious extremists do not belong in government, no matter what religion it is.  And he's intent on wrecking the economy.
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Test suggests 2018 MacBook Pro can't keep up with Intel Core i9 chip's thermal demands

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    Varmoes said:
    I started to question Dave2D approach when he tested multiple laptops. Sure it does thermal throttle but hell. Macs are optimized for Mac applications. This is simply stupid from him. Try to benchtest Final cut Pro from a PC. Even though this is impossible, I'm sure it would perform badly.
    Ever heard of a Hackintosh?

    No, it doesn't perform badly at all. 

    Apple needs to start building MacBook Pros.  The current design should be called the "MacBook Executive" or something equally silly.  Thin is idiotic.
    jdwwilliamlondonGeorgeBMac

  • Apple's recent software problems are bad, but shouldn't lead to knee-jerk personnel decisi...

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    cgWerks said:
    Mike Wuerthele said:
    Last year's hardware bonanza was an oddity. The previous three years there was precisely nothing for hardware.
    I can't remember which thread I posted this in the other day... but here you go...

    Up until 2003, they were pretty much pure developers conference.

    2003
    Power Mac G5
    iSight camera

    2004
    Cinema Display

    2005
    - (transition to x86)

    2006
    Mac Pro

    2007
    iPhone

    2008
    iPhone

    2009
    MBP
    iPhone

    2010
    iPhone

    2011
    multi-touch trackpads

    2012
    MBP (& Retina display)
    iMac
    iPad

    2013
    MBA
    Mac Pro

    2014
    -

    2015
    -

    2016
    -

    2017
    iMac
    MacBook
    MBP
    iMac Pro
    iPad
    HomePod
    Up until 2003, summer hardware announcements happened at MacWorld Boston/NY. 

    And really, 2012 was the last year of good hardware.  The 2013 Mac "Pro" was (and still is, because it's still a shipping machine) a disaster.

    Oh, and last year's incremental update on the iMac is now a year old.  I guess Intel hasn't released any new... oh, wait.  They have.  

    Honestly, the mini makes me angrier than anything else.  I've got clients who need new computers.  The best Mac mini is a used 2012.  And at this point the iMac is a year old, I can't even advise buying that now.
    cgWerkstallest skil

  • Apple's recent software problems are bad, but shouldn't lead to knee-jerk personnel decisi...

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    fastasleep said:
    Maybe it’s time for you to go, if you think they announced “absolutely nothing noteworthy”, which is intellectually dishonest at best. It’s not a hardware event, those things will come. But hey, let’s fire the leader of the most successful tech company ever along with the designer who helped take it there. 
    And this is exactly the kind of useless post that I unfortunately expected. 

    I'd prefer they realize that they're not contributing any more, and decide to retire.  But if they won't, then yes, fire them both. 

    Don't get me wrong, Ive did some amazing work in the early days.  But he's out of good ideas, otherwise we'd have seen some.  At this point, all we're getting out of him is garbage.

    And at this point, Apple is riding on old innovation.  Their hardware lineup is either ancient or inadequate.  Their software is getting worse with every release, I constantly dread what's going to break when I install an update. 

    Sure, they're making money now.  They were making money in the '80s too, riding on the Apple ]['s sales while letting the platform get stale and slowly decline for many years before it all came crashing down.  Don't think it can't happen again, because it absolutely can.  Apple is not invincible.

    And no, it's not intellectually dishonest to say they announced absolutely nothing noteworthy.  It's absolutely true.  They announced a few "well, that's nice" features, along with a few "what took you so long" features.  That's it, there's nothing else. 

    And hardware announcements frequently happen at WWDC.  This year, they were sorely needed, and Apple failed to deliver AGAIN.  Saying "those things will come" when they're YEARS late is what's intellectually dishonest.
    cgWerks

  • Apple's recent software problems are bad, but shouldn't lead to knee-jerk personnel decisi...

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    Should Tim Cook go?

    My take is YES.  And the bugs are only a tiny part of why.  Apple has, yet again, done a keynote with absolutely nothing noteworthy.  A few incremental changes, things that YET AGAIN look different, move around, don't work the same way.

    It's more change for the sake of change, and no focus on what really matters:  Making it work for users.  Moving stuff around is the opposite of helpful.  Making things look different is the opposite of useful.  And not focusing on the things that really DO matter, the actual functionality and stability, is making it harder and harder to justify recommending Mac.  And what I do for a living is make Macs work.

    And yet again we've gone through another keynote and we have no new hardware.  Well, ok, that's not entirely true, there's a new watch band.  That's it, that's all we get. 

    The Mac mini is a joke.  The Mac Pro is a joke.  The MacBook "Pro" is a joke.  The iMac Pro is a joke.  All for different reasons, but for a computer company the size of Apple, it's inexcusable that they're selling one computer model that hasn't been upgraded since 2013, one that hasn't been upgraded since 2014, and BOTH of them are downgrades from the previous versions.  It's inexcusable that their flagship laptop has soldered RAM and storage, and tops out at 16GB RAM in mid 2018.  It's inexcusable that their concept of a current "Pro" desktop is an all-in-one that they made so thin that it can't even run to its full potential because it doesn't have sufficient thermal management.  

    Yes, Tim Cook needs to go.  And Jony Ive needs to go with him.  They've both lost sight of the vision to make insanely great computers.

    (And seriously, they just finally figured out how to make Waze work on a car screen?  Inexcusable.)
    cgWerks