Article does not have much to say, but to be honest there is little apparent game changer design advances about.
Stereo speaker like the Mini would be nice. Huge improvements in battery life so you a full 24 hours banging the crap out of it with video, wifi, 3/4G etc. Most of the other core stuff is fine as is. A 128Gb iPad 5 would be nice, as more apps are allowing downloads to device to carry movies etc... The Apps that accompany with my Synology DS413j Diskstation are a good example.
Advances in the ecosystem so it's less frustrating would be welcome - you buy an Apple device, it has 32Gb, you get free lifetime 32Gb of iCloud. If you have 2 devices, it is a multiplier 32Gb+32Gb==> 64Gb, and using it from a PC/Mac/Internet is easier like Dropbox.
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Not surprised really. The latest iPad hasn't done much. Most likely those who are buying have ditched their old iPads with the dead batteries. Starting to remind me of the Blackberrys a few years back when RIM would release a new phone and the one after would have some minor enhancements such as add a bit of memory or horsepower.
Of course there's going to be a major revision.
How else are they going to sell you another one fairly soon?
How else are they going to sell you another one fairly soon?
because they are seen as "trendy", people buy them even with these minor revisions. However, over time, trends change and Applpe needs some mjor changes to stay "trendy".
And there's me thinking they were, at their own expense filling a gaping hole in our lives out of the goodness of their hearts.
Marked all three posts down, but didn't have the bottle to post why.
...how about an iPad running Windows 8?
That would be novel....and certainly a big jump
That would be novel....and certainly a big jump
Pensive it could only be done with Intel. Funny thing with Arm is that they don't have the power that is needed, yet and if they did, they too would have to worry about Intels problem of the power envelope and heat of which Intel has solved with Haswell!.
Oh, to the author of this article, Intel is much closer to the low powered chips that can run both Android (via Motorola phones) or Microsoft with "Haswell" and "Atoms". How long will it take Arm to make a chip that could be put in a MacAir that could do the same?
Oh, to the author of this article, Intel is much closer to the low powered chips that can run both Android (via Motorola phones) or Microsoft with "Haswell" and "Atoms". How long will it take Arm to make a chip that could be put in a MacAir that could do the same?
It makes perfectly good sense why they would go this direction. Apple has always been a hardware based company - unlike Microsoft - so this gives them the opportunity to make even more ludicrous profit, and have complete control of their resources and supply chain.
that putting ARM in their core machines will drive business and personal software developers even further away from developing for the Macs than they are now. It's tough enough getting mainstream software for the Mac, but putting the ARM architecture in would make it even worse.
Add the ability to use a REAL stylus, not those mushy sponge things.
Give users the ability to store data without going through iPuke...I mean iTunes.
They're not going to try to bring back iLost, are they? (iMaps, iWherethehellam, crApple Maps)
Give users the ability to store data without going through iPuke...I mean iTunes.
They're not going to try to bring back iLost, are they? (iMaps, iWherethehellam, crApple Maps)
I actually own a pretty good ( non-mushy ) stylus. But as a proffesional animator and painter I find that my finger really is the ultimate drawing tool for this device, and rarely use the stylus.
Basically what is talked about in the article are things that vendors using Android and Linux are already starting to do. Combining laptop/desktop, and mobile via docking stations and a single OS that can convert on-the-fly are already partly available, just not by Apple or Microsoft.
Let's invent!
It is time for the Ipad to produce rather than consume, it needs for SIRI to be more productive and connectivity across all platforms. How about a camera that senses eye movement combined with voice... what could be easier!
It is time for the Ipad to produce rather than consume, it needs for SIRI to be more productive and connectivity across all platforms. How about a camera that senses eye movement combined with voice... what could be easier!
Apple will never beat the thousands of Android ideas which are simple incremental improvements on a basic theme (e.g. docking a phone to use as a desktop was developed years ago, also see Ubuntu's ideas). Apple have always taken a rarely used ideas (tablets, smartphones even iPods) that have failed because of poor implementation and made them work the way people want them to, so a new iPad, Macbook or iPhone will not keep Apple truly great - where are the new products that will take up new places in our lives?
1. They've thrown significant legal and financial muscle into asserting that the iPad/iPhone design is theirs alone and unassailable. Any real changes to the layout (including ditching the Home button) is a loss of face and potentially money thrown out the window. Just adding a little bit of screen dimension to the iPhone 5 was a Big Deal Indeed.
2. Jobs famously said "If you see a stylus, they blew it." Now, I know that the Lord of Apple is gone, and I know that third-party stylii for iPads sell well (I see plenty of them in our office), but I imagine that Apple would struggle mightily against going against his Word as it was written. After all, if Steve was wrong about that, what else was he wrong about?
3. Android Nexus devices are eating Apple's lunch when it comes to cost value. Apple lives by its early adopters who'll throw full price (plus) at devices the day that they come out because those are the buzz builders, but the argument about no one else making devices that perform like iOS devices collapsed a while ago and those early adopters and Apple cognoscenti have gotten burned a couple of times in recent memory. Being told something is "revolutionary" doesn't work so well anymore, especially if you're trying to get people excited over things that their friends with Nexus 4s or Galaxy 3s were showing off last year, like NFC or new homescreen widgets.
I think that the best Apple can do now is incremental or invisible updates. Max out battery life and resolution, refine Siri and iTunes, and try to sneak the price down.
2. Jobs famously said "If you see a stylus, they blew it." Now, I know that the Lord of Apple is gone, and I know that third-party stylii for iPads sell well (I see plenty of them in our office), but I imagine that Apple would struggle mightily against going against his Word as it was written. After all, if Steve was wrong about that, what else was he wrong about?
3. Android Nexus devices are eating Apple's lunch when it comes to cost value. Apple lives by its early adopters who'll throw full price (plus) at devices the day that they come out because those are the buzz builders, but the argument about no one else making devices that perform like iOS devices collapsed a while ago and those early adopters and Apple cognoscenti have gotten burned a couple of times in recent memory. Being told something is "revolutionary" doesn't work so well anymore, especially if you're trying to get people excited over things that their friends with Nexus 4s or Galaxy 3s were showing off last year, like NFC or new homescreen widgets.
I think that the best Apple can do now is incremental or invisible updates. Max out battery life and resolution, refine Siri and iTunes, and try to sneak the price down.
A little crossover is fine between the two OSes, but to think that there is one OS that will serve both the desktop and tablet market is a mistake. Bringing key features from one into the other is fine and creating a common usage metaphor is alright but the tasks are different, which means that core functionality is different. Now, you could theoretically creating an adaptive OS that will change with the environment (e.g., touch vs mouse-driven). That could be potentially good on a touch enabled laptop or a tablet with a keyboard (e.g., Surface). There are challenges to that and the potential for failure would be high.
As far as abandoning Intel for ARM on the Mac, that would be a huge mistake IMO. Yes, Apple has been able to successfully make that transition twice (Motorola 68K -> PowerPC -> Intel), but ARM is not a desktop processor and the Intel architecture still has a lot of life in it. What professional Mac users often require is compute power for video, image editing, modelling, etc. Unless Apple is going to abandon the high-end market and just focus on consumer-level Macs, moving from Intel would be a huge mistake there.
As far as abandoning Intel for ARM on the Mac, that would be a huge mistake IMO. Yes, Apple has been able to successfully make that transition twice (Motorola 68K -> PowerPC -> Intel), but ARM is not a desktop processor and the Intel architecture still has a lot of life in it. What professional Mac users often require is compute power for video, image editing, modelling, etc. Unless Apple is going to abandon the high-end market and just focus on consumer-level Macs, moving from Intel would be a huge mistake there.
If Apple can save money [and not give the consumer the same discount] thenm they'll do it. Today's iPads will be paperweights - either from a dead battery or if Apple switches to a different CPU platform. They did it when they killed the PowerPC chip [but fewer laptops used it].
They will continue to introduce THEIR substandard versions of everyone else's products, pretend they invented it and call others copycats. Clever marketing and dumb consumers have see Apple's products dominate a market where they have offered lackluster, low quality and proprietary devices up against, robust, powerful and worthy tools.
People will buy anything that is sold to them properly, whether it's better, they need it or not. People WANT to be told what they need to buy, it's just a fact or consumer driven societies.
iPods were absolute rubbish compared to competitors products that had been out for years already. Apple's marketing behemoth painted the marketplace as being full of copycats and all the morons who don't know any better parroted it until others were left behind.
How do you take out a product that has regular BATTERIES that you can but at any store, cheap.
How do you make a proprietary, poor quality compression format into the world's most popular format, when the competitors offer that plus worthy formats like FLAC and WAV?
Marketing and ignorant consumers who are begging to be told what to buy.
How do you succeed with a phone that does half of what competitor's products do, then make it a leading product, despite 4 upgrades just to make it SIMILAR in capabilities as others?
Marketing and ignorant consumers who are begging to be told what to buy.
Will people ever catch on and see the scam for what it is?
Highly doubtful, there are STILL people out there who think BOSE actually makes good audio products. WalMart is still in business!
As long as there are uninformed consumers who just want to follow market hype, created solely by the device manufacturers, companies with money will succeed in dominating a market with substandard crap and good marketing.
People will buy anything that is sold to them properly, whether it's better, they need it or not. People WANT to be told what they need to buy, it's just a fact or consumer driven societies.
iPods were absolute rubbish compared to competitors products that had been out for years already. Apple's marketing behemoth painted the marketplace as being full of copycats and all the morons who don't know any better parroted it until others were left behind.
How do you take out a product that has regular BATTERIES that you can but at any store, cheap.
How do you make a proprietary, poor quality compression format into the world's most popular format, when the competitors offer that plus worthy formats like FLAC and WAV?
Marketing and ignorant consumers who are begging to be told what to buy.
How do you succeed with a phone that does half of what competitor's products do, then make it a leading product, despite 4 upgrades just to make it SIMILAR in capabilities as others?
Marketing and ignorant consumers who are begging to be told what to buy.
Will people ever catch on and see the scam for what it is?
Highly doubtful, there are STILL people out there who think BOSE actually makes good audio products. WalMart is still in business!
As long as there are uninformed consumers who just want to follow market hype, created solely by the device manufacturers, companies with money will succeed in dominating a market with substandard crap and good marketing.
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