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I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by TechSquidTV »

elorant wrote: post #408
TechSquidTV wrote: post #399

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I had been fairly anti apple my entire life. Believing they were massively over priced, and lacked support for many of the things I did personally. In my younger years I was pretty big on graphic design, still big on video editing. People used to always say "Mac is better for design". I would ask, where did you get this from? Adobe runs on both platforms and updates often come out for Windows before they are ported t…

There are branded Windows PCs too. Go get a Dell and you're done with support. Let's not pretend that Apple is the only company out there that can provide quality hardware that will work for ages.

Dell for support is an option. I may go back to Windows but if I do, my plan is to go with Puget Systems. That way I can still get the beast of a machine I really do need, and it's someone else's problem

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Post by bubblemoth »

Gigachad wrote: post #55
daedrdev wrote: post #50

I do feel like there is some man shaking fist at cloud here. The post dismisses airpods, yet they are one of the most popular products in the US, with like 75% of young people owning a pair, great quality, features, and battery life. I dont think a swappable battery is even a good feature, the parts would be tiny and break easily given their size not to mention how often they could get lost

Hot swappable batteries kind of became not so important after battery banks and fast charging became a thing. Makes more sense to carry one battery bank that can charge anything than to have 2-3 phone batteries in your bag (which would be exposed to puncture too). I still think the price of battery replacements is way too high from apple. It's $150 AUD here which feels far and beyond the cost of the part cost itself.

I think I agree with this. Especially since everything charges over usb-c now.

Why would I buy a secondary battery for a single device when I could buy a backup battery that would charge my:

- Phone

- Watch

- Laptop (x2)

- Steam Deck

- Tire inflator

- Etc

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Post by fragmede »

pjmlp wrote: post #203
linguae wrote: post #122

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I’ve also come to this realization as a longtime Mac user. Granted, I’m not old enough to have used the classic Mac OS as a professional, though I did use it in my childhood. However, I was in high school and college during the Jobs era of Mac OS X, and that’s when I started using Macs as my daily drivers from 2006 until 2022 when I retired my 2013 Mac Pro and 2013 MacBook Air and switched back to PCs running Windows…

The day XCode runs on the iPadOS, the classical Mac is gone. They already got rid of servers and the workstation market, apparently losing those customers to Windows/Linux wasn't seen as something to worry about.

Between Swift playground and bitrig, that's not as far off as it once was!

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Post by thehyperflux »

Havoc wrote: post #264

Phones in general just feel like theyve topped out. All the specs inch upwards sure but if I swop my 14 for a 17 there doesn’t really seem to be some big new feature/use case that would enable. Browse hn 40% harder?

iPhone 14 to 17 is still a solid step up. +10 hours battery. 120hz display. 48mp cameras vs 12, way better front camera... and USB-C. But if this is too minor a bump for you then just hold onto the 14? One of the great things about these recent phones is how long they last if looked after. I'm getting 17 after skipping 6 generations with my XR and it's been great this whole time. Only really upgrading now due to crappy battery life and no longer getting the latest OS versions, which I need to run. And with 6 generations skipped the step up seems major.

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Post by gigatexal »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #347
gigatexal wrote: post #335

they're just a mature company doing mature company things ... still there's a lot of really strong inertia: the MacBook line of hardware is the best it's ever been the phones continue to improve year over year incrementally sure but they're solid -- I'm very keen to see what the rumored folding iphone gets us AirPods I can't live without idk -- macOS26's spotlight just stole a lot of good things from things like Alfr…

>the MacBook line of hardware is the best it's ever been Only after 5 years of the worst it's ever been, something triggered a complete change of course and it's easy to forget how utterly awful the butterfly era was. A lot of the rest of Apple feels like butterfly era thinking.

You can dwell on the past and be grumpy about it or you can enjoy the present and look happily towards the future. The latter is what I’m doing.

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Post by kayodelycaon »

swiftcoder wrote: post #268
svachalek wrote: post #6

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I don't know how widespread this is but in my little circle the orange Pro was the biggest draw, it's the first in the Pro line (or at least as far as I can remember) with real color to it. Most of them are grayscale or very muted colors. It's another "feel" thing but got more attention than the Air's thin body.

Ever since Apple dropped out of Product (RED), we haven't had a lot of bold colour choices. They feel steadily more muted (including the set of non-Pro colours this time around)

Agreed. I’m going to be very sad when I have to replace my red Apple Watch.

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Post by thehyperflux »

mpalmer wrote: post #59

With Apple, the bloom is off the rose, and as with a lot of big business lately, the prose misses the mark. Its copy was once great. Now we get "Awe-dropping", the latest example of marketing professionals coming up with the most basic rhyming wordplay that fits in a three word sentence. Smack a big period on it so it looks like a fact, then head to the bar.

What are some examples of past copywriting / slogans you remember as being markedly better? As far as I can tell Apple have always gone in for this kind of wordplay when promoting new products. Some of it is better, some is worse... but it's always tended to be a bit groan-inducing.

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Post by thehyperflux »

freetime2 wrote: post #325
999900000999 wrote: post #305

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It's just annoying to have to carry a USB Dongle for something that should be built in.

Could you use something like this direct USB-C to 3.5mm Audio Cable, eliminating the need for a dongle? https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MDV84AM/A/usb-c-to-35-mm-...

I had no idea this existed and it's just what I needed to renovate an old pair of headphones for modern devices. Thanks!

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Post by amelius »

OhioMan2943 wrote: post #188

Despite living in an age of supposedly transformative brainstorming and creative technologies, we’re also paradoxically inhabiting in a time with less creativity and vision than ever.

I don't feel the "creative" and "individuality" vibes when I look at Apple products. They all look the same!
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