Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

might go for a mac mini + ipad combo

I was hoping for news of a new iMac. Have to see if the mini is a suitable alternative

i'd like an ipad pro thank you

the least bad appple event in ages (not even that great, but new hardware)

my artist partner is cautiously excited about Real Photoshop ON IPAD

Yeah i was thinking of getting an ipad pro

But for a non applefanboi i sure do have a lot of apple products

use case

https://i.imgur.com/LZmapQt.jpg

for the suicide-curious digital artist in all of us

lmao

that's less plausible than the rooftop party from the Nintendo Switch reveal

i need a new macbook and/or mini but these prices are hard to justify

Can the new MacBook Air run a big 4K monitor in clamshell mode?

june 2017 ipad pro would almost be tempting if they'd bumped the price down. new ipad pro is 760 funbucks and the cheapest apple cover is 85 and that's only for the 8GB model

new air is 20% too expensive

too diffuse a range of products makes it too frustrating to min-max plus post-brexit weakness of the pound has pushed prices uncomfortably high. there's just no sweet spot, as far as I can see in the range

if the new pro started at 128GB for the 760£ model and the smart cover 45/55£ worked then it might have been the_one

apple has got to be taking the piss

they've been holding off on revealing their real product line for like 5 years, it's all been just a gas

This is about the least exciting event I can remember. Whole thing felt very 5 years ago

i think we'd all like to go back to 5 years ago!

1. inflate price of all products
2. hide device sales

what does "inflate price of products" mean?

Sell hardware at higher profit margins

I'm kind of surprised there isn't, like, an SEC or GAAP requirement for a business that sells a consumer product to state how many units of that product it sells.

is there any evidence that apple are selling products at higher profit margins?

Apple stock down 7%, good job Tim!

can someone convince me not to get an ipad pro

there's probably some starving children somewhere

I have owned an iPad and it did not change my life

yeah that's the thing i don't even need it

ugh

basically i want to read comics on it, i don't want it for anything else, and i don't want to buy physical books/comics

support physical mediaaaaaaaaa

ipad pro seems pretty big for anything except actual work IMO

FWIW, my main book and comic reader is a iPad Mini 3. If I had to get something now, I'd probably get that $329 9" iPad. You don't have to spend iPad Pro money on it.

Physical media won't let me back it up in multiple locations and will be a big problem when climate-change enhanced fires burn all of California down. Portability and redundancy forever!

I think the best way for me to die would be in a fire accelerated by my bookshelves, or crushed by them in an earthquake

i want nice big text and graphics tho

i don't want to get old man eyes so soon

Physical media won't let me back it up in multiple locations and will be a big problem when climate-change enhanced fires burn all of California down.

It's the backing-up-in-multiple-locations thing that's causing climate-change enhanced fires tho.

yeah that's the thing i don't even need it

ugh

basically i want to read comics on it, i don't want it for anything else, and i don't want to buy physical books/comics

My 10” Pro is rapidly becoming my main computer. Did all the work on the site from it this morning. I think I’ve used my work Mac for about 20 minutes this week, and that was to pull together a presentation from three other decks. (iOS still sucks horrifically at multiple docs in the same app)

We've owned 3 ipads and I never found a use for them. My kids like it, which is another reason not to have it around.

For a company that prides itself on design, I actually don't find them comfortable to use at all. Any intensive tasks are much more comfortable to do on a laptop, and anything less intensive I'd rather just do on my phone.

It's the backing-up-in-multiple-locations thing that's causing climate-change enhanced fires tho.

FWIW, I'm not using the cloud. Follow-ups to Maintaining a Digital Music Collection

agree with both man alive posts.

I prefer reading comics on my iPad mini 3 to my iPad Pro 10.5”. On the pro, the scans get big enough that they suffer if they aren’t super hi res

Any iPad with a retina screen and 128gb or more of storage will serve u well as a comics reader imo

For a company that prides itself on design, I actually don't find them comfortable to use at all. Any intensive tasks are much more comfortable to do on a laptop, and anything less intensive I'd rather just do on my phone.

otm, after that initial period of subscribing to magazines i never got around to reading there didn’t seem to be any point. maybe as they get close to being an actual macbook proxy for most people (now?) they’ll find a place for most people.

for me the clincher is not being to type on your lap without it all going everywhere. the smart keyboards are pretty solid but it’s still precarious.

I love the pro I bought last year, but I find I don’t use it as much as I’d like because I cannot use it around my 5yo.

re higher prices

Apple's new iPad Pro seems to bend pretty easily https://t.co/EgHrG1iBEo pic.twitter.com/35RHNgO3SQ

— The Verge (@verge) November 16, 2018

yikes

tl;dr looks like the microphone and induction pad are in the worst possible places for that

in messages conversations used to be in bubbles/rounded but something changed and they're all ugly squares now. anyone know how to change it back?