Apple Lovers?

[andrewparker]

http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/tablets/ipad-3-vs-ipad-4-the-key-differences-1106685

That's a piss take, especially as I only bought the iPad 3 last month

I wouldn't be bothered. To the average consumer those changes mean nothing.

[RedRobin]

http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/tablets/ipad-3-vs-ipad-4-the-key-differences-1106685

That's a piss take, especially as I only bought the iPad 3 last month

....Don't assume what a third-party tells you on the internet - Take it up with Apple and see what they say. I assume you still have a dated proof of your purchase.

[simonp]

I only bought an iPad a few weeks ago, but I'm not too bothered as I bought it specifically to avoid iOS 6!

[Kalpsn2000]

http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/tablets/ipad-3-vs-ipad-4-the-key-differences-1106685

That's a piss take, especially as I only bought the iPad 3 last month

....Don't assume what a third-party tells you on the internet - Take it up with Apple and see what they say. I assume you still have a dated proof of your purchase.

I have the receipt but I bought it from Vegas while I was there a month ago, so not sure if this will make a difference. At least I saved some money due to the exchange rate.

[Kalpsn2000]

http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/tablets/ipad-3-vs-ipad-4-the-key-differences-1106685

That's a piss take, especially as I only bought the iPad 3 last month

I wouldn't be bothered. To the average consumer those changes mean nothing.

I know the updates don't really deserve it to be called the iPad 4 but it still means I only owned the 'current' iPad for 1 month. Anyway I will be over the slight disappointment in a few days as I really have loved using it for the past month

[driver rider]

Good job im not in the market for an iMac because no CD drive really gets my goat!!

Glad I'm not the only one.  Really like the new MacBooks but no optical drive means I'll keep my macbook pro for a long time to come.  Apple actually annoyed me by doing that.  Not everyone wants digital content. I still buy CD's and DVD's.  Though according to apple these kinds of people are behind the times.  To me they're simpy trying to force everyone onto their app store.  not impressed.

Also not impressed with their push towards cloud computing.  The new macbook's have stingy storage in my opinion.  I know you can add more but feel apple are starting to take the biscuit a little bit with their pricing.

[gtipirelli]

We are thinking about buying a latest iPad as we still have one of the original iPads from two years ago. We are thinking of waiting until we go to the states next may but can someone let me know what sort of saving you get with the current exchange rate. If it is only a few quid we will just buy one sooner in the uk

Thanks

[Baz300]

The 3rd generation iPad is being sold off by apple as "refurbished" for £315 on apples website now so a bargain if anyone is looking for an iPad.

My only worry is that apple seem to be sweeping the current model of iPad under the rug making it seem like it has never existed. So what's wrong with it?

 

[RedRobin]

Glad I'm not the only one.  Really like the new MacBooks but no optical drive means I'll keep my macbook pro for a long time to come.  Apple actually annoyed me by doing that.  Not everyone wants digital content. I still buy CD's and DVD's.  Though according to apple these kinds of people are behind the times.  To me they're simpy trying to force everyone onto their app store.  not impressed.

Also not impressed with their push towards cloud computing.  The new macbook's have stingy storage in my opinion.  I know you can add more but feel apple are starting to take the biscuit a little bit with their pricing.

....As a professional designer (now retired) I am a huge Apple fanboy but am very pissed off too about the direction Apple is taking by assuming that they know best about how we use our machines and then dictating that we can only work as they intend. They are becoming too American (America uber alles) and not international enough.

Apple have sacrificed functionality for style by dumping the optical CD/DVD drives. Discs are still used for music and games and there aren't enough ports on the iMac to sacrifice one for an external drive anyway. All my iCloud settings are switched to Off - I personally have no need to use it and it mixes up all my iMac and iPad Calendar and Contacts data into a mess anyway. 5GB free iCloud space is tiny anyway and I don't spend money on Apple products to pay further for such things.

Apple have got their heads up in the iCloud and their feet are no longer on the ground!

[andrewparker]

Glad I'm not the only one.  Really like the new MacBooks but no optical drive means I'll keep my macbook pro for a long time to come.  Apple actually annoyed me by doing that.  Not everyone wants digital content. I still buy CD's and DVD's.  Though according to apple these kinds of people are behind the times.  To me they're simpy trying to force everyone onto their app store.  not impressed.

Also not impressed with their push towards cloud computing.  The new macbook's have stingy storage in my opinion.  I know you can add more but feel apple are starting to take the biscuit a little bit with their pricing.

I can understand your need for an optical drive, but what do you expect Apple to do - continue catering for a growing minority and in doing so compromise the design of their products?

I really don't mean any offence, but it sounds like you need to move with the times!

[andrewparker]

Ha, you too Robin!

[RedRobin]

Ha, you too Robin!

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Ah, but I'm 65yo and move slower (except when with the aid of a red GTI).

I see your point and that there will come a time when CD/DVD discs will go the way of floppy discs. But is it that time already?

Anyway, external optical drives are so noisy.

[andrewparker]

....As a professional designer (now retired)...

Perhaps useful to consider the view from a current Senior Designer. Our studio consists of iMacs and Mac Pros and although these machines have optical drives they are never used. I can't remember the last time we received a CD/DVD from a client. It certainly wasn't in the last two years. The majority of our clients either use DropBox or other online file transfer services. The printers and photographers we use all provide direct FTP access to their servers. For the past three years all the software we have purchased has been delivered via digital download. This is backed up in various places, but not on an optical disk.

No one is forcing anyone to use iCloud as a means of storage - that is most certainly not it's primary purpose.

[rich83]

Glad I'm not the only one.  Really like the new MacBooks but no optical drive means I'll keep my macbook pro for a long time to come.  Apple actually annoyed me by doing that.  Not everyone wants digital content. I still buy CD's and DVD's.  Though according to apple these kinds of people are behind the times.  To me they're simpy trying to force everyone onto their app store.  not impressed.

Also not impressed with their push towards cloud computing.  The new macbook's have stingy storage in my opinion.  I know you can add more but feel apple are starting to take the biscuit a little bit with their pricing.

I can understand your need for an optical drive, but what do you expect Apple to do - continue catering for a growing minority and in doing so compromise the design of their products?

I really don't mean any offence, but it sounds like you need to move with the times!

Ill move with the times when apple start offering lossless audio content. HOWEVER.... since buying my apple TV we have been renting quite a few HD films and that in my opinion works perfectly for me, it doesn't bother me to have the actual DVD.

[RedRobin]

....As a professional designer (now retired)...

Perhaps useful to consider the view from a current Senior Designer. Our studio consists of iMacs and Mac Pros and although these machines have optical drives they are never used. I can't remember the last time we received a CD/DVD from a client. It certainly wasn't in the last two years. The majority of our clients either use DropBox or other online file transfer services. The printers and photographers we use all provide direct FTP access to their servers. For the past three years all the software we have purchased has been delivered via digital download. This is backed up in various places, but not on an optical disk.

No one is forcing anyone to use iCloud as a means of storage - that is most certainly not it's primary purpose.

....You are right but I am now a consumer and the iMac, although it greatly overlaps with Pro machines, is meant to be a Consumer machine.

I was referring to my ex pro designer status with regard to being an Apple fanboy.

We aren't forced to use iCloud (I don't) but Apple do much to encourage us to - I see it as a thin edge of a wedge.

I could give other examples but it gets tedious: The way that Aperture and iPhoto interact - The software is being increasingly designed on the basis that all users are the same and that robotic user model is what Apple has decided who we are. There's no Think Different anymore.