WWDC 2017 - What will we see

Mac
#29

Macbooks (Air and other) are already dead in the education here in NZ they are far too expensive to buy and maintain. Schools have replaced them with Chromebooks which they can buy several of for the price of one Macbook - and they integrate into the Google infrasrtucture which almost every school here use.

Gone are the days of young impressionable minds seeing the Apple logo day in and day out at school and associating that with computers/education/IT - now they see the Google logo and are very likely to use their products and services by default.

I have already seen this happen in 90-95% of the schools whose IT infrastructure I support and I’m hearing the same thing from It people throughout the country.

This will of course not worry Apple as they will still think they can get that market later but I suspect on 10 years time things will be markedly different once these school children become the young and up and coming of the future

#30

Not really… he was in a position that suited his talents. Jobs had to find someone he thought would be able to do the job as he saw it ought to be done, and at first, it seemed like thats exactly what was happening. It isnt, now. And really it could not be. Nobody can BE Steve Jobs, and nobody would have exactly the same vision as Jobs. But I dont see Tim Cook being “visionary” at all. From out here it looks like he passed a lot of decisionmaking to Sir Jony and others. Perhaps I am wrong, but thats what it looks like to me.

#31

Airs are still in education where I work, but if the Airs go then the Macs will go all together, as Chromebooks are cheaper than Macs and so much more flexible and manageable than iPads.

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#32

Have you ever thought that Job chose Cook because he was good at the supply chain, but was not a threat to the immortality of Steve’s reputation?

Anyway, a file manager for iOS would show Apple is actually listening to some of its best customers, something that hasn’t happened for a while.

It can get rid of the MBA if it drops the price of the MacBook to that of the MBA and adds a port.

#33

The MB is inferior in literally every way to the MBA (besides thinness and the screen) and doesn’t fill the general purpose laptop role very well. Less battery life, less robust, no MagSafe, lack of ports, no SD card reader, slower etc. It is a great 'ultimate thinness/executive laptop, and a beautiful piece of engineering, but its not for a lot of people and it makes no sense for education. They should rename it the MacBook Air and the MacBook Air should be renamed MacBook as those are the roles each should fill.

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#34

Good points there Oldmacs.

#35

A new AppleTV with a small screen which acts as an assistant in a box… also with a built in speaker… for $800

#36

Lol sorry I got fired up :stuck_out_tongue: I’m a bit passionate.

The two iOS leaks from tonight are exciting, hopefully tomorrow morning is exciting!

#37

They can ditch the headphone jack tbh and add a second USB C port. More than enough given the base MBP has two USB C ports :skull:

#38

Just woke up, and Santa Clause has come seven months early. I will watch the keynote tonight. It must have been good. Real good.
Now to find $3600 for the iMac I would like.

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#39

For the first time ever, I want everything that was announced.

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#40

Watching now, but I read the macrumors live blog first to see if I wanted to bother… and I did. The OS updates look pretty good.

Is the iMac Pro something which may signify the death knell of the Mac Pro?

#41

That would annoy about the same percentage of MacBook owners as removing the headphone port from the iPhone annoyed iPhone owners!

The new iMacs look good (and USB C on a desktop doesn’t create the same issues it does on a mobile device, such as lost adaptors).

#42

Luckily Apple announced (a couple of months ago) that they’re devolving a whole new Mac Pro range but its going to take them time.

#43

Well, I have a wishlist based on some of today’s announcements. I think that 10.5" iPad Pro is probably the very best compromise (for me) for the stuff I use it for (which is nearly everything, these days)… and in combination with iOS11, it will easily replace my Macbook. Guess my Air2 and macbook will be on the market before long.

This is almost like the Apple of old.

#44

I should play this prediction game more often! :wink:

This is huge for me. Mac Pro usage is heavily focussed on the GPU for me.

#45

I am so glad I watched live. It was awesome. Real old school “but wait there’s more” Apple keynote. Jam packed with amazing things.

#46

I reckon this announcement confirms what I’d previously said / believed - that the Mac Pro was going to be ended and replaced by iMac & iMac Pro range, but now will also live on as a super high end range above both, thankfully. If this is the spec they are putting in the iMac Pro, then the real Mac Pro will be (rightfully) an absolute monster I’d guess!

As an aside, as someone who had a client with 3x 27-inch iMacs all have their AMD video cards die from overheating in the same week (last week!) there is no way in hell I’d buy an iMac with an 18-core Xeon and a hot video card. New thermal design or not. (where have I heard that before… oh right, with the Mac Pro :joy:)

#47

Looks like you got your wish…

#48

Yes much as I’d love a 27" iMac I think having a 24" 4K iMac with a second 27" screen would be the best way to go when and if I can get a new machine , especially given the information on 27" iMacs in another thread that iMic posted