I don't think it will, but apple if it doesn't want to will have to step upto
the game. And make their products actually changing and all of that stuff.
On Jun 14, 2018, at 1:27 PM, Paulette Vickery <paulette@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This sounds scary. Do you mean that now that I have decided to change to the
Apple world, that the Mac is going to the dogs?
Paulette
From: mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of trish
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2018 2:30 PM
To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: [mac4theblind] Under the Microscope » Blog
Archive » On The Sad State of Macintosh Hardware
that is most discouraging
On Jun 14, 2018, at 12:43 PM, Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2018/06/14/on-the-sad-state-of-macintosh-hardware/
<https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2018/06/14/on-the-sad-state-of-macintosh-hardware/>
On The Sad State of Macintosh Hardware
Posted By Quentin Carnicelli on June 14th, 2018
With Apple recently releasing their first developer beta of MacOS 10.14
(Mojave), we’ve been installing it on various test machines to test our
apps. The inevitable march of technology means Mojave won’t install on all
of our older hardware. There’s no shock there, but the situation is rather
distressing when it comes to spending money to purchase new equipment. Here
is the situation, as reported by the wonderful MacRumor’s Buyers Guide
<https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac>:
At the time of the writing, with the exception of the $5,000 iMac Pro, no
Macintosh has been updated at all in the past year. Here are the last
updates to the entire line of Macs:
iMac Pro: 182 days ago
iMac: 374 days ago
MacBook: 374 days ago
MacBook Air: 374 days ago
MacBook Pro: 374 days ago
Mac Pro: 436 days ago
Mac Mini: 1337 days ago
Worse, most of these counts are misleading, with the machines not seeing a
true update in quite a bit longer. The Mac Mini hasn’t seen an update of any
kind in almost 4 years (nor, for that matter, a price drop). The once-solid
Mac Pro was replaced by the dead-end cylindrical version all the way back in
2012, which was then left to stagnate. I don’t even want to get started on
the MacBook Pro’s questionable keyboard, or the MacBook’s sole port (USB-C
which must also be used to provide power).
It’s very difficult to recommend much from the current crop of Macs to
customers, and that’s deeply worrisome to us, as a Mac-based software
company. For our own internal needs, we’ve wound up purchasing used hardware
for testing, rather than opting to compromise heavily on a new machine. That
isn’t good for Apple, nor is it what we want.
Rather than attempting to wow the world with “innovative” new designs like
the failed Mac Pro, Apple could and should simply provide updates and speed
bumps to the entire lineup on a much more frequent basis. The much smaller
Apple of the mid-2000s managed this with ease. Their current failure to keep
the Mac lineup fresh, even as they approach a trillion dollar market cap, is
both baffling and frightening to anyone who depends on the platform for
their livelihood.
Given the incredibly sad state of the Mac lineup, it’s difficult to
understand how WWDC could have come and gone with no hardware releases.
Apple’s transparency in 2017 regarding their miscalculation with the Mac Pro
seemed encouraging, but over a year later, the company has utterly failed to
produce anything tangible. Instead, customers are still forced to choose
between purchasing new computers that are actually years old or holding out
in the faint hope that hardware updates are still to come. Every day, the
situation becomes more dire.
Apple needs to publicly show their commitment to the full Macintosh hardware
line, and they need to do it now. As a long (long) time Mac OS developer,
one hesitates to bite the hand that feeds. At a certain point, however, it
seems there won’t even be anything left worth biting.
