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Originally Posted by alcimedes
Not sure what the rolleyes are about chucker, Apple's entire computing line with the exception of the MBP has been totally neglected, and even the MBP line saw marginal improvements.
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Well, that wasn't your original assertion, and even that is questionable. How is an iPhone not a computer?
Here's the original assertion: "Apple seems like they're dropping the ball in traditional computing markets"
Yeah, OK, I get it. A dogwhistle for "ha-ha, iPhones aren't real computers".
Generally speaking, as far as computers go, they're doing pretty damn good.
They've been developing one of the best new programming languages, and evolving it rapidly. They, in March, shipped an entirely new file system, to hundreds of millions of devices, converting in-place, with little fanfare, and zero known cases of data loss. They have arguably the best mobile CPU, and it's looking like they're about to follow up on that in the GPU space as well.
And, yes, they've gotten pretty unreliable about shipping new Macs. But as others have already pointed out, there's really two aspects to that.
One is that they need to do better. (And they seem to have started acknowledging that internally and externally; cf. Mac Pro.) Beyond Jony Ive being bored because nobody will let him thinnovate the Mac Pro any more, there's little explanation for why we haven't seen more frequent updates especially in the desktop space. Mac mini, Mac Pro (obviously). Even the MacBook, for no apparent reason.
The other, however, is that "traditional computing markets" have, in fact, gotten more boring. That's not all on Apple. Maybe we'll see some rejuvenation with AMD Ryzen, but I don't really see it. The 90s' days are over — the big leaps in hardware performance, the big experiments in UI paradigms? Those are taking place in mobile, and this generation's "real men don't need a GUI" greybeards need to start accepting that.