Not our company any more

[Mike Johnson]

Yeah. It's a smarphone company now, and I've never had a smartphone and I hope I never will.

[ka jowct]

Mike Johnson wrote:
Yeah. It's a smarphone company now, and I've never had a smartphone and I hope I never will.

Not sure why. Having an iPhone has vastly improved my working life, among other things. I would really, really hate to have to go back to a "dumb" phone.

[davemchine]

I listen to the Security Now podcast with Steve Gibson. He decided to build the biggest/fastest computer he could and run windows 7 on it. He calls it his "last computer" as he anticipates it lasting him until he doesn't need a real computer anymore. I'm not as old as Steve but I've had that in the back of my mind. At some point I'll just "lock in" and stay with whatever the current tech is. If Apple could fix a few things with OS X I'd almost be happy to do that.

I have been paying attention to linux more though. If I can't continue with Apple that's where I will go but I'm not seeing comparable apps on that platform though. I would like to see the return of the iLife concept. Most of us need a core set of apps. It would love to see apps continue to improve and evolve essentially forever rather than starting all over periodically or abandoning perfectly good software.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

chopper wrote:
When Ducati started building bikes for the masses ... a friend of mine said, after we'd seen the 749 and other Albatrosses of Doom "Hey, it's no longer just ours any more."

I think this is the new way I will think about Apple.

That writing was on the wall years ago.

[vision63]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
[quote=chopper]
When Ducati started building bikes for the masses ... a friend of mine said, after we'd seen the 749 and other Albatrosses of Doom "Hey, it's no longer just ours any more."

I think this is the new way I will think about Apple.

That writing was on the wall years ago.
Yeah, they are what they are now. At least they still make Macs. I guess that's still something. All soldered and sealed up and all.

[GuyGene]

vision63 wrote:

...All soldered and sealed up and all.

I don't want to do much but be able to add RAM and change drives out. That's all. Canno' even do that now on MacBooks.

[Mike Johnson]

ka jowct wrote:
[quote=Mike Johnson]
Yeah. It's a smarphone company now, and I've never had a smartphone and I hope I never will.

Not sure why. Having an iPhone has vastly improved my working life, among other things. I would really, really hate to have to go back to a "dumb" phone.
Ah, you assume if I don’t have a smartphone I must have a dumb phone. Nope.

[Uncle Wig]

raz wrote:
Agreed. I'm still getting good mileage out of my Early 2008 MacPro. When that dies ...

I don't know

But, 'appliance' Macs are not my ideal choice.

I'm with you. It's getting close to upgrade time, but Apple sells nothing I aspire to own. Nothing I really want. I'm tempted, even, to load this thing with more RAM, and SSD, a video card, and just keep using it.

[deckeda]

You can't stay with old tech and remain online-safe and/or compatible with some new thing you may want. Always been that way.

[OWC Jamie]

Mebbe they should hire a professional Commander in Chief, to Make Apple Great Again.