First thing of all, I want this to be a debate not and argument as the moderator pointed out. Secondly I think that what Einsteiniac said was disrespectful to me, well this is how I feel, if there's no offense in his words then there's non taken! As simple as that but I'd like to remind that not everybody has the same definition of respect and that we have to consider it whenever we are having a debate. Furthermore I believe that passionate is good, but we must be careful, but passionate is always good.
I'm glad to have feedbacks on the MacBook Pro with Retina display. Since I don't own one my opinion is merely based on what I saw of it in the store, internet and a what a friend who owns it told me. I must say that I'm glad if you believe that is a great product and I'll take a moment to revise my opinion.
Whenever I talk of unfinished OS's I'm clearly making a comparison to older and outdated version. There are many things that I'd like to point out. The newer version of OS X are working on virtual ergonomic that's great but softwares are losing features, like iMovie so many friends that work in the movie industry have told me that past versions are much better than the actual one! Also I've something that disturbs me deeply, Apple is loosing support on some particular things, Java on Xcode, Rosetta that may be the saddest of all, iWeb good for people that are not into coding their site themselves and many others. I'm sure that most of you don't care about Rosetta since newer versions of softwares tend to be better than the old ones, but you do more than work on a computer and this way I've lost the ability to play lots of my beloved old games! Plus think of all the people that can't buy softwares constantly, I've seen my father going through that. Besides we now get to have updates correcting bugs all the time! If it's not ready simply don't release it, and we can't choose, soon the new iTunes is coming out and certainly it will be a pain to go back to older versions of iTunes if you don't like it. So we end up using third party softwares because we have no freedom on what version we want to use of the bounded apps that we may love.
As far as iOS is concerned, stability is the main issue, my iPod touch that I updated to iOS 6 had some bugs never ever seen on past version of the operating system.
Apple is innovative and still great. I use my MBP and iPhone every day, I don't say they are not good, I'm concerned about what it may become. I't would be a pain to have iOS on all Apple's devices, why because they are different devices and you don't use them the same way. It's normal to expect different capabilities on different devices. I want to point out as well that the social network softwares integration is kind of scary. I've studied a bit in Cyborg Anthropology and the conclusion I can make is that this globalization is making us mostly virtual people, I don't want to come back to the 18th century but we live in a real world and it would be nice to make a difference. We have internet communicators everywhere is it a reason to make all of them social tools? I believe that we must put apart social and work tools. I want my iPhone to be social, and I want my computer to be functional and professional.
I have another question what is with the new MagSafe's design, I mean the T form factor, I believe that the past one was much better.
Another thought, it has been said that Apple is going mainstream, well is going mainstream for people who can afford it, so how is that mainstream? How is being forced to re-buy all your software being mainstream?
I'd like to receive more thoughts! Don't be shy we don't bite!
