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"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 thi

by 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 rsync 10y ago

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.