djames4242

Apple should also invest more effort into the Mac App Store, possibly acquiring or simply assembling suites of existing business apps specific to an industry, providing a turnkey package of apps for running a particular small business.

I'd personally like to see them put more effort into making iWork with less suck. The versions before they completely through out the old code-base in favor of porting the iOS versions was fantastic. Pages was my go-to page layout and word processing tool, and Keynote had me far more productive than PowerPoint could ever dream to be. And Numbers - well, Numbers was never all that capable, but it made amazing looking reports. That it still does.

However, they removed the #1 feature (linked text boxes) that made Pages such a great layout tool, and they removed the far-better inspectors from all the apps in favor of the less-powerful and more difficult to use format sheets. Meh. I miss having multiple inspector panes open, especially when performing complex animations in Keynote.

At the very least, give us back the linked text boxes and I can go back to getting work done...

wizard69 said:

Why everybody thinks ARM can't run Mac OS is beyond me.  Honestly folks just look at the machines running Linux just fine.   

Mac OS can run on ARM, but then people like me who run Windows in a VM 40+ hours a week would no longer be able to use it. Someone on this forum once tried to convince me that an ARM architecture would be powerful enough to run Windows emulated, but I don't buy it. It's also not quite the same as being able to virtualize. Perhaps I'm in the minority in my needs, but I'd be disappointed if Apple moves the entire Mac platform off Intel.

Indeed - as others are saying, my Extremes have been the most reliable routers I have ever owned. I used to buy those $50-75 routers but every.single.one failed in 6-9 months (and I tried Belkin, Linksys, Netgear, and the über-cheap Airlink brands - they all sucked). I finally broke down and spent the nearly $200 it cost for a (then second-gen) Airport Extreme. It's never failed me. About three years ago I bought a 5th gen through a third-party and moved the older 2nd gen downstairs as an extender.

The power supply in the new router was immediately bad, but Apple replaced the entire kit with a brand new model.

I miss the old Airport Utility software which added a lot more flexibility; the new software is super dumbed down. I also hate that every single change in configuration (including stupid stuff like access control time changes and port forwarding) requires a restart - but I put up with it because of how reliable they are, and because of how well integrated they are with OSX Server (I'm not sure if Server's UPnP configurations work with third-party routers or not).