Apple now seemingly considers most Mac hardware updates boring enough to skip any potential press event and just feature the new models on the Apple website for a while. Event-worthy Mac updates are now limited to entirely new products or major redesigns.<\/p>\n
This makes sense: most people don\u2019t care when a new laptop looks the same as its predecessor and has all of the same general benefits and drawbacks, but has a faster CPU. These core-component updates barely warrant a press release, because for normal usage, the difference is barely noticeable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It wouldn\u2019t surprise me if updates to the iPod product line became as un-event-worthy as Mac CPU updates.<\/p>\n
But couldn\u2019t this happen to the iPhone and iPad as well?<\/p>\n
Not every time, of course. Just like the Macs, what if the iPhone didn\u2019t get massive updates on a regular annual schedule, but only got a significant redesign every few years, with minor mid-cycle updates as needed? Some wouldn\u2019t even be announced at events at all, and others would be quick footnotes during otherwise software-focused events.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Although, Marco is an iOS developer ( a damn good one) and he’s writing from the perspective of an iPhone hardware announcement this year but I wonder if Apple is moving too fast. They’ve done an incredible thing with the iPhone from 2007-2011 and now it’s so mature and they’re releasing iPad updates yearly and doing amazing things with those as well. When is a Macbook too thin and that question applies to the iPad and iPhone as well.<\/p>\n
I have to wonder, will we get bored of iPad updates as well? Probably, but the software capabilities are limitless.<\/p>\n
I’ve been hoping and praying since Jaguar in 2003 that Mac OS X would get better and better. It has from a “tweaks” point of view and we’ve seen a few new features but I really don’t feel like OS X has changed that much since 2003. The dock and overall interface is largely unchanged. I want HUGE changes like Windows ME to Window 7 kind of changes. I honestly feel like Mac OS X from a UI point of view is FAR BEHIND that of Windows 7 which came out a couple of years ago. Apple hasn’t updated the UI and I’d rather go a year without any hardware updates and apply Marco’s logic of huge changes in the software to OS X. I hope the UI we see now in the Lion preview isn’t the final UI because I’m just tired of quirky perks like Expose and Quick Look and stacks. I want REAL changes and you can’t tell me OS X was perfect from a UI perspective to the point where they can go 10 years without updating the interface at all.<\/p>\n
I wish there was more hype for Macintosh updates. I also wish Apple would update the body of their entire lineup. The MacPro, iMac, Macbook Pro and MacBook all have 2-7 year old body designs.The iPhone and iPad can chill out for a bit and sit just like they are. I want Mac updates and software updates and I want Final Cut updates and a refresh to the design of their Airport Extreme and for Apple to release a 30″ Aluminum LED display. These are things that I want…<\/p>\n
Will people care? Probably not.<\/p>\n
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