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Apple needs to be very careful, by effectively abandoning the pro creatives market, their products start to look more and more like expensive toys and convenien

by bane 10y ago

Apple needs to be very careful, by effectively abandoning the pro creatives market, their products start to look more and more like expensive toys and convenience products. Supporting pro-level consumers, they made their offerings indispensable at work and thus more convenient for users at home.

addicted 10y ago
It's possible, but as the whole Samsung recall debacle showed, Apple is still heads and shoulders ahead of their competitors in serving the consumer market. The entire consumer Eco system, including support, 3rd party integration, 3rd party apps, first party apps, and hardware, just seems significantly ahead of any competitor. I find it hard to see how a loss of the pro market will affect their ability to sell hundreds of billions of dollars of iOS devices every year. Which, of course, worries me even more about the future of Apple in the professional space.
- brokenmachine 10y ago
  The Samsung recall didn't seem so bad to me. People were offered a replacement, not long after the problem was recognized. Yes it's bad that there was a problem, but they did what they could, and quickly. Apple is terrible with problems with their hardware. Look at the Iphone 6 Plus touch fiasco, and there's millions of other examples. I'm trying to think of the name of that Apple hardware fixit guy with the youtube channel who did the awesome "fuck Apple" rant. Ask him how far ahead of the competitors Apple is.
chiph 10y ago
Not only that - developers, pro-sumers, and audio/visual professionals are often asked for recommendations on what to buy by friends & families. They're "influencers", and Apple is abandoning them at their peril.
- collyw 10y ago
  I am sure thats where a lot of their "cool" factor comes from.
- brokenmachine 10y ago
  Yes, they have always marketed themselves as the computer for "creatives", while PC-compatibles are for "geeks".
gutnor 10y ago
The problem is that the "Pro" are the people that keeps the platform alive by developing app for them. I think that Apple is getting blinded by the strength of the iOS ecosystem that bleed on the MacOS one. They think they can get away with anything. Or they just don't care and the iPad Pro is really the computer of the future at Apple. The huge wait since the last update of whole range of Mac hardware really start to make me feel as they have just put it on life support. With maybe one last significant update maybe this year and then let the platform slowly drown, with infrequent updates. IMO, if they announce a cloud version of XCode that publishes compiled app in a special developer app store, that would mean the end of the Mac line.

by bane 10y ago

addicted 10y ago

It's possible, but as the whole Samsung recall debacle showed, Apple is still heads and shoulders ahead of their competitors in serving the consumer market. The entire consumer Eco system, including support, 3rd party integration, 3rd party apps, first party apps, and hardware, just seems significantly ahead of any competitor. I find it hard to see how a loss of the pro market will affect their ability to sell hundreds of billions of dollars of iOS devices every year. Which, of course, worries me even more about the future of Apple in the professional space.

brokenmachine 10y ago
The Samsung recall didn't seem so bad to me. People were offered a replacement, not long after the problem was recognized. Yes it's bad that there was a problem, but they did what they could, and quickly. Apple is terrible with problems with their hardware. Look at the Iphone 6 Plus touch fiasco, and there's millions of other examples. I'm trying to think of the name of that Apple hardware fixit guy with the youtube channel who did the awesome "fuck Apple" rant. Ask him how far ahead of the competitors Apple is.

chiph 10y ago

Not only that - developers, pro-sumers, and audio/visual professionals are often asked for recommendations on what to buy by friends & families. They're "influencers", and Apple is abandoning them at their peril.

collyw 10y ago
I am sure thats where a lot of their "cool" factor comes from.
brokenmachine 10y ago
Yes, they have always marketed themselves as the computer for "creatives", while PC-compatibles are for "geeks".

gutnor 10y ago

The problem is that the "Pro" are the people that keeps the platform alive by developing app for them. I think that Apple is getting blinded by the strength of the iOS ecosystem that bleed on the MacOS one. They think they can get away with anything. Or they just don't care and the iPad Pro is really the computer of the future at Apple. The huge wait since the last update of whole range of Mac hardware really start to make me feel as they have just put it on life support. With maybe one last significant update maybe this year and then let the platform slowly drown, with infrequent updates. IMO, if they announce a cloud version of XCode that publishes compiled app in a special developer app store, that would mean the end of the Mac line.