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All these "OMG the latest Apple hardware sucks" posts, while annoying, do have a pretty simple picture to paint: All the low hanging fruit is gone in the consu
by spott 10y ago
All these "OMG the latest Apple hardware sucks" posts, while annoying, do have a pretty simple picture to paint:
All the low hanging fruit is gone in the consumer electronics world. There isn't anything obvious that I would fix about my 4 year old rMBP. It is still fast, it does the job that I need it to do. The iPhone 7, while nice, isn't that much better in any measurable way than the iPhone 6.
So what do you do when you are a company that made its fortune by constantly innovating yet all the obvious ways to innovate are gone? You make the best incremental improvements you know how to (smaller and thinner, take any pain point you can find and try and fix it). Hopefully there is a skunk works team at Apple working on the craziest stuff they can think of and trying to figure out something that will actually be innovative, but that isn't going to come quickly, it isn't going to be easy and it isn't necessarily going to happen at all.
- spronkey 10y agoThere are soooo many things I can think of that Apple could do to 'innovate'. Maybe they should pay me to tell them some :/
- zimpenfish 10y agoBut how many of them would only apply to a small number of geeks; add manufacturing complexity; add manufacturing cost; add manufacturing unreliability; require software support; etc.? I too can think of many things I think Apple should do but I realise they wouldn't be cost effective over millions of users.
- spott 10y agoI'm genuinely curious: what could they do to improve the laptop? I've been trying to think of things that are a) hardware based (OS X is another beast), b) doable with todays technology, and c) actually fix some problem that I have with my computer, or introduce some new paradigm of working with my computer that will improve my interaction with it. The only things that I can think of fail (a) or (b). edit: or fail to be useful to people who aren't power users like me.
- spronkey 10y agoWell, the obvious one is to move back to upgradable hardware. Why they feel the need to keep reinventing M.2 I don't know. Even for non power-users, an extra year or two out of your machine, or the remote chance to get your data back if e.g. logic board dies is definitely handy. A few other reasonably obvious things I can think of are the ability to run iOS apps in OS X, potentially even move an iOS app to OS X (there would be a hardware component involved here I would assume), pen input on the display or trackpad, quad core CPUs in the 13" model.