king editor the grate

StrangeDays said:

Rajka said:

Personally, I think Apple's efforts will be moot if it does not deliver the very best user experience possible for a modest premium, and a clearly delineated simple product line. You know, do what Jobs did. Steve had a great vision, yes; but he also knew how to make customers passionate for Apple. That kind of goodwill cannot be bought; it can only be earned. That's why I no longer have passion for Apple. Tim Cook killed it with his focus on delivering outstanding shareholder returns over excellence. Sigh.

...personally, I think you're high. I have a brand new iMac, an iPhone X, an iPad Pro, AirPods, HomePods, MBP, etc... And they're all the best versions of these devices I've ever owned, I'd never switch them. They deliver excellence, despite your claims otherwise.

Hey, hey, don't impugn high people; they enjoy savory Apple products as much as low people ... possibly more.

I don't think Cook is robbing me, but I strongly suspect he's been leaving four-wheeler ruts in my yard.

eightzero said:

AppleInsider said:

The electrocardiogram feature in the Apple Watch Series 4 got clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration just a day prior to Apple's Sept. 12 press event, reportedly causing some stress at the company.

If only there was a way to be sure their hearts were healthy enough to handle that stress.

When I ask my doctor if my heart is healthy enough for sex, she says, "Well, let's just try a few tests ..." And after the tests she says, "Yours is. Mine isn't."

StrangeDays said:

It needs a flux capacitor? Great Scott!

They probably shouldn't have aimed for 1.21 gigawatts.

I procured a graphite iMac in March 2000. It worked great for four years, then the screen stopped working. I bought G5 iMac; happily, I also bought AppleCare, because two years later, it sustained eight or so catastrophic failures. After pernt near every internal was replaced, it would sleep on its own; I could wake it immediately, but it would sleep again a few seconds later. If I let it rest, it would run several minutes before sleeping. (Oddly, the graphite's screen started working again at some point. Its hard drive has always made it the noisiest Mac I've used ... save for when the G5's fans revved to full speed in its apparent attempts to stop a meltdown.)

After hours over multiple days (both on the sleepiness and all the prior repairs), I got a representative who said, "I think this iMac thinks it's supposed to go to sleep." He posited that the back panel needed to be replaced. I asked if it could just be shipped to me, and he said it required another repair. I called again the next night and finally got a guy who looked at its long history and seemed perturbed. He said they would ship me a new iMac.

I still have the 2006 model; a friend replaced the shot hard drive with a 2TB; I used it as media server to Apple TV for several months but started getting kernel panics. I stupidly installed the OS from a Time Machine backup and forgot that I was having kernel panics before the hard drive quit. Now all it does is wake a few seconds; can't even boot it from DVD.

I'd like to get a new one, but 2009 MBP, iPad Air 2, and iPhone X serve most of my computing needs.

Biggest downer is I got first iMac after we got G4 towers at work. I was so geeked by the hardware/software design (OS9 was soooo much better than OS8) that I wanted to buy two grand in Apple stock. That seemed like a lot of work, however, and I've regretted it ever since.