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I had the same experience when I went to create a small recording studio for my wife. I figured I'd use garage band on a Mac Mini and connect the mixer to that.

by srj 10y ago

I had the same experience when I went to create a small recording studio for my wife. I figured I'd use garage band on a Mac Mini and connect the mixer to that. I changed my plans after going to Apple's website - I don't want to buy old tech and especially not at full price. It's bizarre to see a company with the wealth and resources of Apple not even putting out spec upgrades for their machines. I could say the same about my old MacBook Air I've been wanting to upgrade. Just throw us a bone here Apple. Even a small bump in specs.

rsync 10y ago
"It's bizarre to see a company with the wealth and resources of Apple not even putting out spec upgrades for their machines." What's so bizarre is that the things that people want are actually the easiest and cheapest things for apple to do. All anyone wants is a macbook air with a retina screen. Not a new 12" one, not a new form factor, not design and engineer some new razor thin design ... just take the same old cad drawings and put a nicer screen on it. All anyone wants is a mac pro tower (not the wastebasket) with nicer internals and fast SATA/USB ports. That's it. Nothing new to design, no new manufacturing processes - you don't even need new press photos. If you're going to relegate the product line(s) to second tier, why not just save a ton of money and give people exactly what they were all asking for ?
- remir 10y ago
  What Apple lacks is humility. Jobs even said people don't know what they want until "you showed it to them". So, I highly doubt that Apple will listen to what people want. I mean, Apple would make a killing with a new Mac Mini with better spec, a Macbook Air with better screen res, couple of USB-C ports, a 24" iMac instead of 21, etc... But Apple won't do it because that would be listening to people, and this is something they're too proud to do.
  - brandon272 10y ago
    It's interesting... unless my memory is failing me, you never hear Apple say anything to the effect of, "We listened to our customers, so we decided to _____" I mean, I agree with what Jobs said when he suggested that customers expect Apple to innovate and curate and make it's own decisions about what products it develops. But I think you can also take that too far, especially when your customers are screaming at you on certain topics.
    - remir 10y ago
      Yep, even with stuff like the antennagate, they never truly recognized their mistake ("you're holding it wrong!"). Too proud. Same thing with the "touch disease" on the iPhone 6.

by srj 10y ago

rsync 10y ago

"It's bizarre to see a company with the wealth and resources of Apple not even putting out spec upgrades for their machines." What's so bizarre is that the things that people want are actually the easiest and cheapest things for apple to do. All anyone wants is a macbook air with a retina screen. Not a new 12" one, not a new form factor, not design and engineer some new razor thin design ... just take the same old cad drawings and put a nicer screen on it. All anyone wants is a mac pro tower (not the wastebasket) with nicer internals and fast SATA/USB ports. That's it. Nothing new to design, no new manufacturing processes - you don't even need new press photos. If you're going to relegate the product line(s) to second tier, why not just save a ton of money and give people exactly what they were all asking for ?

remir 10y ago
What Apple lacks is humility. Jobs even said people don't know what they want until "you showed it to them". So, I highly doubt that Apple will listen to what people want. I mean, Apple would make a killing with a new Mac Mini with better spec, a Macbook Air with better screen res, couple of USB-C ports, a 24" iMac instead of 21, etc... But Apple won't do it because that would be listening to people, and this is something they're too proud to do.
- brandon272 10y ago
  It's interesting... unless my memory is failing me, you never hear Apple say anything to the effect of, "We listened to our customers, so we decided to _____" I mean, I agree with what Jobs said when he suggested that customers expect Apple to innovate and curate and make it's own decisions about what products it develops. But I think you can also take that too far, especially when your customers are screaming at you on certain topics.
  - remir 10y ago
    Yep, even with stuff like the antennagate, they never truly recognized their mistake ("you're holding it wrong!"). Too proud. Same thing with the "touch disease" on the iPhone 6.