Gartner has always been known in the techie world as the king of mumbo jumbo. Their bullshit quadrants are only good to show to PHBs and customers alike.
Unfortunately, coming from an (ex?) Apple fan, that is true. Tim Cook seems more interested in promoting "diversity" at Apple events that promoting decent products.
The last events have seen gays, blacks, older people, women, black women, disabled people, fat people...instead of decent products.
I always say wwdc keynotes religiously, the last one I turned off the TV after the first 15 minutes. Too bad to be true. I swear that if this year Tim Cook also includes refugees in the next WWDC, it is the last of Apple products I will buy.
Tim Cook does not understood what turned Apple around, and that we may have bought an IPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Airport because MacBook Pros were great.
This thread is full of shills. Is MS so desperate? If my next laptop is not Apple, it will be Linux. Windows has always been an exercise on frustration.
In my opinion the problem is that Tim Cook does not understand the ecosystem between all the Apple devices, and family bringing others along. i.e. the shinny iPhones and (god forbid) iWatches are bought to fit in the Apple ecosystem that we already have at home.
The question should be more what problems did you not run with win10...starting with the rather non-intutitive interface and the stupid update policy...
Unfortunately, coming from someone that was a hardcore Apple fan, he is not being a dick.
I wonder if it would be interesting to do comparative history between Amelio and Tim Cook. The visual image in the events and their present is horrible...OS/X is far from stable, in fact their requirements of quality have been a disaster.
The events, I used to see them all. Now what, they are little more than a minority freak show. Gays, blacks, women, old people,handicapped, (...) will the next one have refugees? It is needed more than political correctness to run a company...
The iWatch thingy that Tim Cook is investing is an expensive lump of coal until they give it the capabilities of a phone and a VR display and keyboard. A thing which will probably take between 2 and 4 decades..
It would be better to face it, Tim Cook is running the company to the ground and sending the wrong message to the target demographic that turned Apple into what it is today.
To make it worse, the crowd that was attracted to it by Jobs maniac attention to details, and the adoption of Unix in the Mac is being alienated and Apple probably does not even care.
On top of all this nonsense in Portugal and Spain Apple products have a tag of an extra 500 Euros mark-up from the local Apple compared to USA for some magical reason. Hey Apple, I could have bought a 15'' Macbook Pro for myself last year, and this xmas I bought an Asus for my wife. Because I surely am not paying an extra 500 Euro tag to local thieves. So up yours! As they say in my country in a very liberal translation, "when you want to earn it all in one go..."
So consumer reports does not take into account Tim Cook displays gays, blacks, women and fat people in their MacBook product announcements, and has shinny iWatches???? Who knew minorities advocacy should not be taken into account selecting a good computer? How unpc of Consumer report...I am flabbergasted!
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Praise the Saint Steve Jobs. A miracle, I tell ya, a true miracle!
I might buy 2 macbooks, one for the back, and another for the torso.
Gartner has always been known in the techie world as the king of mumbo jumbo. Their bullshit quadrants are only good to show to PHBs and customers alike.
Yup, such high standards loading malware directly in the BIOS...maybe high triad standards. But surely not our high standards.
I am too in that boat, but will never use Windows...Linux has made sufficient strides I might go full Linux on the desktop.
A PlayStation beats the crap of an Xbox any day. XBox was from day one a stripped down PC.
Believing or writing Microsoft is trying to embrace open source means you are either naive or a shill.
"awful", because Intel is better....really? Are you for real?
Unfortunately, coming from an (ex?) Apple fan, that is true. Tim Cook seems more interested in promoting "diversity" at Apple events that promoting decent products.
The last events have seen gays, blacks, older people, women, black women, disabled people, fat people...instead of decent products.
I always say wwdc keynotes religiously, the last one I turned off the TV after the first 15 minutes. Too bad to be true.
I swear that if this year Tim Cook also includes refugees in the next WWDC, it is the last of Apple products I will buy.
Tim Cook does not understood what turned Apple around, and that we may have bought an IPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Airport because MacBook Pros were great.
Sure, because we never trusted MS in the last decades, but now we trust it wont fuck "Linux" too.
This thread is full of shills. Is MS so desperate? If my next laptop is not Apple, it will be Linux. Windows has always been an exercise on frustration.
IWatches are still years behind practical use and I really doubt they want them eating the iPhone customer base.
In my opinion the problem is that Tim Cook does not understand the ecosystem between all the Apple devices, and family bringing others along. i.e. the shinny iPhones and (god forbid) iWatches are bought to fit in the Apple ecosystem that we already have at home.
The question should be more what problems did you not run with win10...starting with the rather non-intutitive interface and the stupid update policy...
If the AC would be so kind to explain how it magically gets there...
and shoot on sight all the copyright/patent trolls.
At which point is not lets encrypt a conspiracy to reduce the number of sites with self-signed certificates?
A cover solves easily that.
Unfortunately, coming from someone that was a hardcore Apple fan, he is not being a dick.
I wonder if it would be interesting to do comparative history between Amelio and Tim Cook. The visual image in the events and their present is horrible...OS/X is far from stable, in fact their requirements of quality have been a disaster.
The events, I used to see them all.
Now what, they are little more than a minority freak show. Gays, blacks, women, old people,handicapped, (...) will the next one have refugees? It is needed more than political correctness to run a company...
The iWatch thingy that Tim Cook is investing is an expensive lump of coal until they give it the capabilities of a phone and a VR display and keyboard. A thing which will probably take between 2 and 4 decades..
It would be better to face it, Tim Cook is running the company to the ground and sending the wrong message to the target demographic that turned Apple into what it is today.
To make it worse, the crowd that was attracted to it by Jobs maniac attention to details, and the adoption of Unix in the Mac is being alienated and Apple probably does not even care.
Excellent comment, it made my day!!!
Coincidentally, Microsoft managed to import their surfaces without that 500+ "steal" tax. Odd. I am not that convinced.
EVERY European hates that cunt man.
On top of all this nonsense in Portugal and Spain Apple products have a tag of an extra 500 Euros mark-up from the local Apple compared to USA for some magical reason.
Hey Apple, I could have bought a 15'' Macbook Pro for myself last year, and this xmas I bought an Asus for my wife.
Because I surely am not paying an extra 500 Euro tag to local thieves. So up yours!
As they say in my country in a very liberal translation, "when you want to earn it all in one go..."
And they miss keys and industry standard connectors, and the stability of OS/X while better than Windows, is not what it used to be.
So consumer reports does not take into account Tim Cook displays gays, blacks, women and fat people in their MacBook product announcements, and has shinny iWatches????
Who knew minorities advocacy should not be taken into account selecting a good computer?
How unpc of Consumer report...I am flabbergasted!
Killer robots will consider banning the UN