As long as OS X still includes Terminal.app and lets me install other apps without using the App Store, I'm still hooked.
IRecognition: I am no longer Apple's Target Market
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#12What's weird is that this has been a running argument for almost the entire existence of Apple. Here's the thing though -- Apple hasn't changed. They are simply closer to their goals then ever.
I'm not saying it's right. But computer as an appliance? That's the dream! In the 80s we would argue on Usenet that the WIMP interface was too simplistic, and that real computer users stuck to the command line only. Now, in 2012, we argue on Blogs that the iPad is too simple, and real computer users need a mouse, keyboard, and windowed interface.
I'll leave this anecdote from 1981. over 30 years ago. To show how Apple is still Apple:
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
"Apple's other co-founder, Steve Jobs, didn't agree with Jef about many things, but they both felt the same way about hardware expandability: it was a bug instead of a feature. Steve was reportedly against having slots in the Apple II back in the days of yore, and felt even stronger about slots for the Mac. He decreed that the Macintosh would remain perpetually bereft of slots, enclosed in a tightly sealed case, with only the limited expandability of the two serial ports. "
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#13This sounds more like bandwagon-backlash than the real thing. There's no reasons here. Just a bunch of recycled generic complaints that are pretty trendy to toss around about Apple these days. The next cool thing is hating Apple so all the Apple users will probably write more articles like this and we'll have to read it every day on the front page. Brace yourselves.
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#14To all of those complaining about the new Apple devices, this is what you should do. You should vote with your wallet.
I don't think that you are going to change Apple's mind, but this is the only way they'll listen.
Personally, I think they are to far gone by now. The money pouring in has simply been to much to ignore. It's not the computer for the rest of us any more...It's the computer for the rest of them...
(I am one of them, I just understand your argument and your frustration)
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#15Apple is making the exact same mistake the RIM made. They've gone from targeting hardcore fans, to targeting teenagers.
The problem is that teenagers are quick to jump ship to the coolest new thing. Apple has been making "coolest new thing" for a while, but they're getting really popular now, which seems to be inversely proportional to "cool".
For RIM, they moved away from targeting hardcore, email-addicted business people, and it made them vulnerable enough to get killed.
Apple is doing the same thing.
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#16Apple still makes the Mac Pro if you're bent on physically upgrading your computer yourself.
The current Mac Pro is long in the tooth and to all intents and purposes is dead, despite the so-called 'update' this summer. The Mac Pro forums are a pretty sad place, folk still clutching at straws, hoping something comes out next summer.
"Lloyd Chambers (MacPerformance Guide) thinks it may be August 2013 before Apple releases a new Mac Pro because of remarks Steve made two or three years ago, brought to his attention by a reader of his site, that Apple would not release a Mac Pro until USB 3 was natively supported. The Ivy Bridge Xeon is supposed to support USB 3 natively." (http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/152825/future-of-mac-pro)
Re: IRecognition: I am no longer Apple's Target Market
#17I feel exactly the same way. And just like the author. I don't quite fully understand why.
By the way, I don't think the author is really criticizing Apple much. He just recognizes that Apple's vision is no longer in line with his own.
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#19As long as OS X still includes Terminal.app and lets me install other apps without using the App Store, I'm still hooked.
I've always said this too, but looking at things like Facebook, Twitter, iOS, the last thing I want is to keep sacrificing to walled gardens where I have to play by someone elses' rules.
GateKeeper, to Mac developers, is playing by Apple's rules. I don't think it's a conspiracy to say that it will tilt the favor towards those who utilize the very closed (in multiple senses of the word) App Store over regular applications.
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#20In my opinion, it's simple.
5 years ago, Apple was seemingly "light years" ahead of everyone. Kowtowing wasn't really even a thought because so much more was being provided than elsewhere that there was no real compromise to choose Apple.
That's not true and is increasingly more than just untrue...