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saarek said:

I don't understand how they let the Mac lineup get in the state it's in.

With their money they could easily have upgraded the line up with new internals whilst they finished off any innovations that they wanted to roll out.

Piss poor management, very unusual.

non sequitur.  The Mac Lineup is not the reason they made less money last year.

and it's quite simple:  the Mac Lineup is in the state it's in due to 1) the iPhone is the product that drives the company; 2) Apple's commitment to reduce churn in products (to avoid rapid obsolescence / devaluation); 3) their dependence on Intel to provide 'compelling' upgrades to the x64 computational platform  4) Apple's view that the world [read: the 99% of the buying public that doesn't write code, play computer games, or crashes molecules, planets, or TB databases together] wants lighter more portable products.

I [hopefully] think this is the same conundrum as in 1997-2004 where they had to 'dance with who brung ya' [GSeries chip], until they could get 1) the NeXTSTEP->MacOSX migration reasonably complete, AND the Intel Core/Xeon Chips were Price/Performance competitive with the PowerChips.

I do think that the A series chips will go to the MacOS line... but it's still 4-5 years out, not so much for the Ax chips, but for supporting chip set that provides all the stuff that iDevices don't have to deal with at the performance levels a 'real computer' has to.

I do think the Apple Execs take a very long view in their product pipeline [3+ years], and are compensated such that a couple million a year off the top is a 'pinch' and not a 'penalty'  (If I have a x0,000 shares at 2010 $70 RSUs, the real benefit is still to grow stock price 20% over 3 years [remember this is the friction' highest capitalized public company in the free world 5% YoY is serious growth]).

Nothing to see here, business as usual.

andrewj5790 said:

thedba said:

jsmythe00 said:

Damn....you're paying to upgrade to the latest tech...which then requires you to purchase legacy tech to make your product functional. 

Apple is great at most of the few things it does. This isn't one of them. 

Or this is one of many solutions out there that support your legacy tech. All you have to do is choose which one is right for you. 
But if you really are attached to all  your old equipment, maybe you should not be purchasing new tech. 

If Apple were to do focus groups and listen to all naysayers, then the new MBP's would have at least one of each of the following
1) Firewire
2) Ethernet
3) VGA
4) USB-A
5) SD card slot
6) HDMI
7) Thunderbolt 2 / Display port
8) Magsafe
9) Thunderbolt 3 / USB-C
10) CD/DVD drive
11) Toslink
12) 3.5mm Analog jack
13) Lightning

Thank you for your reasonable post! Not many around these days... Though, you forgot, 14)Floppy Drive and 15) pinned mouse and keyboard connectors instead of that horrid new USB junk  

16) SCSI.   how could you forget SCSI.

Soli said:

1983 said:

Soli said:

rogifan_new said:

So let me guess...we'll get a 7S and 7S Plus largely unchanged and then a new redesigned more expensive model used for the upsell. Anything to get people to spend more money and drive up ASPs.

If that seems like an obvious tactic then why haven't they done that before? So far, any additional model has been a low-end, as is with the 5C and SE.

Because it's the 10th anniversary of the iPhone. They want to make a statement device to celebrate that...if this is all true that is.

You're saying they're waiting to "fleece their customers with extra high pricing" because it wasn't a special enough event for them to "steal from their loyal iSheep"? That makes perfect sense¡

see...  "25th Anniversary Mac Cube"  

http://www.macworld.com/article/1153341/macs/cube-10thanniversary.html

hmlongco said:

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What Apple needs to do is let the user setup a "self-destruct" passcode that, if entered, deletes user data for all/selected apps. (Tying this to a specific fingerprint wouldn't hurt things either.)

Being able to delete selected applications or wipe application data is key, as typically you'd like the authorities to think they're looking at an ordinary phone, while in reality you've deleted all of the app data for Message or Facebook or Twitter or Mail, protecting that information and those communications and contacts.

"0-0-0-Destruct-1"

Everyone knows that

apple ][ said:

They had better fix these and make them 100% perfect.

My ears are pretty good, far above average, and I can hear the slightest delays, down to the millisecond. That is one reason that I have long been skeptical towards wireless sound.

Can you imagine what a nightmare it would be if the L and R are not perfect in sync? There would be all sorts of phasing issues and sound would not be reproduced accurately anymore.

I only use 1 ear at a time.
Mostly listen to podcasts.

market of one.

I agree with apple][ , the L/R sync integrity has to be 'insanely great' just to be on a par with wired (between speakers) headsets.   Bluetooth to video synchronization was a similar problem (nothing like having lips move and then .2 seconds later you hear the voice).  

but phasing issues, that would just suck.  Worst case, such  phasing would make something that should be right in front of you (center speaker), 'sound like' its 100 yards to the left or right depending the leading speaker.  Curious if it would impact equilibrium?