Not our company any more

[Uncle Wig]

deckeda wrote:
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.

I realize that. I may be tempted to stay with this machine which has been absolutely wonderful, but I almost certainly won't. Instead I will reluctantly spend my money on a new machine that is less good in many ways, and borderline disposable.

[testcase]

"We need to go back to the good ol' days of Steve promising us 3GHz PPC chips next year."

miley-laughing001:



"Linux just keeps looking better and better compared to the clown car circus of Microsoft/Apple with a little Google thrown in."

:agree:

[ka jowct]

Mike Johnson wrote:
[quote=ka jowct]
[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.
My previous phone was dumb. I have no clue what you use, but would be interested in knowing what it is and why you don't want a smartphone.

[C(-)ris]

testcase wrote:



"Linux just keeps looking better and better compared to the clown car circus of Microsoft/Apple with a little Google thrown in."

:agree:

Maybe in another 10 years. Right now Linux isn't compatible with most major software suites, it doesn't support the majority of popular games, it isn't particularly user friendly and still requires a lot of command line work to do things that have GUI in other OSs. Honestly, I'm not sure exactly why people think it is making any headway. Other than some distros have skins that make it look nicer not much has changed in Linux in 10 years.

[tortoise]

Suppose I should add my 2¢ to this thread, first off perhaps the many complaints are overlooking that us old hands that continually bemoan the new directions of the company (I used to be of the most vocal) are no longer the target group Apple is designing for? Tough to accept but reading the gripes and thinking of my own resistance to changes I am beginning to realize that many of us are old hands and were very geeky in our own realms and Apple filled our needs very well. Like others have said not sure what I will do when my old MacPro 2008 gives up the ghost or is rendered obsolete by perhaps the next OS X or whatever they call it, not likely to go to windows, however I could see myself just changing over completely to my iPhone 6+ and forgo replacing the MacPro and using my Macbook Pro. Frankly the more comfortable I become with the iPhone the less need I have for a industrial strength Mac Pro.

In addition the many bitches about some of the questionable changes made by Johnny Ives there again I bitch and scream but as time goes on I find the visuals in the GUI are bland but they do actually work just fine once I overcome my initial unfamiliarity with the changes. So I guess all I am saying is as a company they seem to think their future is with the iPhone and as much as I hate to admit it they may very well be absolutely correct, only time will tell. As a long time investor however I will confess I have ridden the wave all the way up from $12.50 a share to the recent highs of $134 and now on the advice of Vanguard I am getting out while the getting is good. The iPhone has been a fantastic success but with so much of their stake in the exclusive phone market I could be disastrous if they have a big miss in that line and even Apple can miss occasionally. Don't have the nerve to ride their stock any further at my age, going to diversify and let a financial advisor manage a conservative portfolio and sleep good at night.

[Mike Johnson]

ka jowct wrote:
[quote=Mike Johnson]
[quote=ka jowct]
[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.
My previous phone was dumb. I have no clue what you use, but would be interested in knowing what it is and why you don't want a smartphone.
I have two devices. One is an iPod Touch. The other is a landline.

[Grateful11]

Mike Johnson wrote:
[quote=ka jowct]
[quote=Mike Johnson]
[quote=ka jowct]
[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.
My previous phone was dumb. I have no clue what you use, but would be interested in knowing what it is and why you don't want a smartphone.
I have two devices. One is an iPod Touch. The other is a landline.
So you don't even have cell service.

[mrbigstuff]

The 749? Really?

[raz]

deckeda wrote:
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.

Perhaps. But Firefox/Chrome will support Maverics for quite a while longer. I might even move on to Yosemite or EC eventually. I already have Snow Leopard in a VirtualBox for some very old PPC code.