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Re: Is it time to put Apple Computer on suicide watch? by E. L. Koba 11/28/2016, 4:40pm PST
blackwater wrote:

Maybe it's just the Hacker News filter bubble, but I keep hearing a steady drumbeat of news about Apple exiting one market after another. Supposedly, they just killed their wireless router, the AirPort.. A little while ago they killed their Apple monitors.


Yeah, it seems a little insane to keep relying more and more on just the iPhone for a larger and larger percentage of your profits.

blackwater wrote:


Now the MacBook Pro is out, and it's one big "fuck you" to professional users. The amount of RAM is still 16GB, the same as three years ago. This alone would be a deal breaker for anyone using Macs for content creation, like Photoshop or movie editing, etc. (Of course, they already gimped Final Cut Pro, so at least they're being consistent!) The only ports are USB-C, so if you have to give a business presentation on HDMI, DisplayPort, or VGA, then fuck you! If you need a modern GPU to run CAD software, deep learning, or 3D modeling, then fuck you! This thing has an embarrassingly bad AMD GPU.


I have no love of for apple, but for the work I do now (ruby on rails, now some android) macs are still the default go to tool. I need to get a new one because I'm starting up my own consulting firm, and these new macs just about pushed me to bite the bullet and start using linux. But, I just don't want to deal with the hassles that go along with linux, and the environmental differences with the rest of the "community". But I'm sure there are plenty of developers who will, and that will start tipping the balance - and I'll jump ship.

Bonus - I already own something that I can plug into the new macbook pro without a dongle: my Nexus

A lot of (bad) people are willing to pay extra for macs, because that's what the "real pros" use. But once the pros don't actually use them, that incentive is gone.

blackwater wrote:


It's just baffling to me that Apple is exiting so many markets at once. There is so little work required for them to keep this stuff running, in most cases. In the case of the Mac Pro, all they have to do is take the old product, and put a faster CPU and more memory in it. That's all they have to do! They couldn't get some junior-level supply chain guy from Dell to go replace part X with part Y so that they could issue a 2016 refresh? An Apple monitor should be a no-brainer. Just get a mid or high-level monitor, do compatibility testing on it, and then slap an Apple logo on it. It's like they don't want to take people's money.


Yeah, it was crazy - the last place I worked was totally willing to pay $1000 for the official apple monitors, knowing full well that they were the exact same displays from the same factories that you can get for $300.

It's hard to see this and not just think "hubris":



(also interesting is that "R&D" is not in the main building? What the fuck are all the people in that huge UFO doing if it isn't R&D?)
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Is it time to put Apple Computer on suicide watch? by blackwater 11/27/2016, 12:18pm PST NEW
    Maybe by but probably not quite yet! 11/27/2016, 1:35pm PST NEW
    They're in their 90s IBM phase by skip 11/27/2016, 3:15pm PST NEW
    Re: Is it time to put Apple Computer on suicide watch? by E. L. Koba 11/28/2016, 4:40pm PST NEW
        Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, select Ubuntu preinstall by Entropy Stew 12/01/2016, 7:46pm PST NEW
        Re: Is it time to put Apple Computer on suicide watch? by bisekrankas 01/16/2018, 4:01am PST NEW
        Apple just repeating one of DEC's old tricks from the 1970s by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/05/2018, 1:53am PDT NEW
    I am hoping the good shit comes out next year by Entropy Stew 12/01/2016, 7:47pm PST NEW
        2017 was a terrible year for Apple. by blackwater 01/15/2018, 11:15pm PST NEW
            wHatS a cOmPUtEr???? NT by Judge Barry 01/16/2018, 10:59am PST NEW
            Their CEO is a lunatic by Mysterio Lollerson 01/16/2018, 11:00am PST NEW
                "I've only had good years" -- Tim Cook by Mysterio Lollerson 02/21/2018, 9:16am PST NEW
            2018 isn't looking much better by skip 01/17/2018, 3:49pm PST NEW
                Apple rolls out eGPUs, but sort of in a half-assed way by blackwater 04/15/2018, 9:42am PDT NEW
                    It's a long way from the motherboard bus to an external GPU. NT by Have they fixed that? 04/15/2018, 2:27pm PDT NEW
                    Why bother given the limitations, and lack of games by DireTirefire 04/15/2018, 2:53pm PDT NEW
                    They’ve turned the GPU... into a dongle =( NT by Tim Cook <3 dongles 04/15/2018, 11:36pm PDT NEW
        Laptop update by Entropy Stew 09/24/2018, 4:24pm PDT NEW
            You can't justify a MBP anymore. They went full retard on the MBP by Motherhead 09/24/2018, 6:47pm PDT NEW
                He just the die-hard professional Apple-loving core die on the vine NT by Entropy Stew 09/25/2018, 10:46am PDT NEW
                    Yep, can't into computer. NT by Motherhead 09/25/2018, 11:51am PDT NEW
    Apple deprecates OpenGL and OpenCL by blackwater 06/04/2018, 8:59pm PDT NEW
    Suicide watch? Apple has 5 billion in cash in the bank NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/07/2018, 9:30pm PDT NEW
    Apple stops making the iPhone SE by blackwater 09/15/2018, 3:24pm PDT NEW
        This also means they no longer make a phone with a headphone jack. NT by Fullofkittens 09/16/2018, 9:24am PDT NEW
            I hate Bluetooth, so I gotta ask. by Mysterio Lollerson 09/16/2018, 9:34am PDT NEW
                I am told that the experience of using those things is "better than expected." by Fullofkittens 09/16/2018, 10:56am PDT NEW
                    Chiming in here by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/16/2018, 11:06am PDT NEW
                        Remember "it just works"? by Just Barely 09/16/2018, 1:41pm PDT NEW
                    I have a Bluetooth headset, but I don't use it most of the time. by blackwater 09/21/2018, 3:14pm PDT NEW
                Re: I hate Bluetooth, so I gotta ask. by CattleHumper 09/19/2018, 1:58pm PDT NEW
                    This is my experience as well but I was unwilling to be the board apple defender by Motherhead 09/19/2018, 2:12pm PDT NEW
                    Not having to hold a button down to connect is huge, makes a lot of sense. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/19/2018, 7:33pm PDT NEW
    Apple cracks down on indie repair shops. by blackwater 10/05/2018, 12:28pm PDT NEW
    Re: Is it time to put Apple Computer on suicide watch? by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/11/2018, 8:18pm PDT NEW
        Some simple organisms shit and eat through the same hole. by Tim Cook 10/14/2018, 3:27pm PDT NEW
            Mac transhumanist nods furiously while eating shit NT by J Gruber 10/14/2018, 10:39pm PDT NEW
    Well, the dumb shits put the Escape key back on their laptops. by I've Only Had Good Years 11/15/2019, 8:28am PST NEW
        Never apologize to the neeeeeerds by blackwater 11/15/2019, 9:29pm PST NEW
 
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