The tricky bit Apple is approaching is that hardware is about at the
limit. Long ago the audio reached a point where any improvement would
not be discernible by most people's ears (192k fanbois noted). Now the
retina display has reached the same point where any more improvement
won't be detectable. Storage is starting to get there where I can pretty
much expect the drive that ships in the box to store anything I can come
up with for the life of the device. In the old days I would upgrade my
storage three or four times before the computer itself wasn't worth
keeping. CPUs are also getting there where it's 99% idle and a faster
CPU won't make me get stuff done any faster. So all that's left on the
hardware side is marginal improvements for CPU, storage and maybe RAM.
That's not a lot to wrap a new Mac marketing campaign around. Add to
that longer lifespan on today's hardware and I could see the market
saturating. The old stuff just keeps on working and the new stuff gets
only marginally better. Where that leaves things is software and the
user interface it creates. That's what can help me get stuff done faster
and Apple's latest track is for software updates to be free. UI is a
huge open space with bi-directional speech, different methods to
manipulate content and ways to share or collaborate with it. The next
few years are going to get interesting.
CB
On 10/16/14, 5:39 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
Ray,
Sadly, in terms of market, the answer to your question is glaringly
obvious. I candy wins each and every time. Why else the continual
change to the look of things? They want you to buy more and more
because it looks different and it looks cool. Never mind whether it
works well or not.
Mary
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On Oct 16, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Ray Foret Jr <rforet7...@comcast.net
<mailto:rforet7...@comcast.net>> wrote:
OH I quite agree. The only thing I saw of any substance coming out
of this was the going down by $100.00 of the Mac mini. I'm guessing
this is a very base line model and that's okay: but, honestly, I
really think they've just got to get back to what made them good to
start with. What's more important? Eye candy for the light
dependant who think their eyes do everything or true function?
Sincerely,
the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iphone user!
Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the
blind built-in and fully protected by ClamXav Antivirus!
On Oct 16, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Rich Ring <richr...@gmail.com
<mailto:richr...@gmail.com>> wrote:
If you-ask me, it was a huge yawn.
You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off! ---The Art of
Fielding
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richr...@gmail.com <mailto:richr...@gmail.com>
On Oct 16, 2014, at 2:02 PM, Ray Foret Jr <rforet7...@comcast.net
<mailto:rforet7...@comcast.net>> wrote:
Hi,
Did anybody else here get the impression that the Apple
presentation seemed to offer nothing that we would care about?
Not even speks.
Sincerely,
the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iphone user!
Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the
blind built-in and fully protected by ClamXav Antivirus!
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