Tag: Apple

Here’s why a 15-inch MacBook Air would be a good addition to the Mac lineup

With all this talk of a 15″ MacBook Air I have one small concern that the screen resolution might stay the same as for the 13.6″ version at 2560×1664 or thereabouts. It doesn’t make a lot of sense but it’s not like they haven’t done it before.

It’s a long time ago and an entirely different executive team, but when Apple introduced the 14″ iBook G4 they kept the screen resolution at 1024×768, the same as the 12″ iBook and the 12″ PowerBook G4. Those who bought the 14″ iBook didn’t get any more work space than those who bought the 12″ version.

The larger iBook had a bigger screen size, bigger hard drive, a SuperDrive that burns DVDs and CDs instead of a Combo Drive that can read DVDs but only burns CDs, and 450 grams heavier, and a higher price.

Apple didn’t want to cannibalize the slightly more expensive 12″ PowerBook G4 which had almost identical specs and they certainly didn’t want the iBook to encroach on the Pro Mac space, so they couldn’t give the 14″ iBook a higher screen resolution.

There’s little chance that someone would pick the 13″ M2 MacBook Pro if Apple makes a 15″ Air available, because frankly, why would you? Even the 13″ M2 MacBook Air is a slightly better machine overall and with a slightly lower price.

Will a 15″ Air pose a threat to the 14″ Pro? Not in the slightest. The 14″ and 16″ Pro machines carry the much more powerful M2 Pro or Max chips and they also have much higher resolution screens with the XDR display. They also have more connectivity or ports. The Air lineup will not have those.

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Steve Jobs would be rolling in his grave and Jony Ive crying his eyes out.

Oh Apple, how far you’ve fallen in product design and user experience.

if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy

Apple CEO Tim Cook 

From  Watch to Phil Schiller. 2014 Apple products in one image.

Kidding aside, aesthetics is probably why they decided to omit the iPod series, the Mac mini, Apple TV, and the Mac Pro. Those products likely don’t fit the imagery they wanted to pass on.

Although if it’s simplicity that they were after, they certainly didn’t show it with the 2014 iPad offering. That’s about as confusing as it gets when it comes to an Apple product series, more so than the  Watch because even though the Watch has a ridiculous number of choices, technologically it’s really only one product with two different physical sizes whereas the iPad series goes back four generations.

iOS default icons throughout the years

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Here’s Jony!

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Apparently this is where Apple’s chief designer Jonathan Ive lives

If it weren’t for iBox’s aggressive promotion for the iPhone 4 I probably wouldn’t have come across this clean piece of case for the 4S. They didn’t have cases for older iPhones anymore when I checked last month but this time they’ve got a few models out. Glad they’ve got this classy one picked out. There’s a black version too.

For 200k it’s not a bad deal. It’s gonna be filthy within days since it’s all white but at least the iPhone won’t get more bumps and bruises. Hopefully.

Kinda wish they left out a gap for the SIM card slot tough.

sefsar:

This, I can appreciate.

I want iOS to be modernized a bit more

The lack of gesture support on the iPod touch and iPhone makes for an awkward moment when you’re far more used to using the iPad which has a greater range of gesture recognition.

Not being able to do things like switching between apps simply by swiping from the side edges of the screen as opposed to a four finger swipe on the iPad or closing the app by pushing up from the bottom of the screen makes these tall screen devices feel rather quaint and underdeveloped.

I realize that Apple can be both revolutionary and conservative with regards to introducing interface features but after more than five and a half years of iOS, it needs a little more of the modern abilities not just to compete with offerings from other platform providers but also as a milestone in its own software development roadmap.

As it stands, the iPhone remains a safe bet for consumers who don’t want to have to learn too many new things as its comes with arguably the easiest and simplest mobile OS to learn and use.

I’ve got high hopes for Jony Ive to reboot iOS. – Read on Path.