“I’ve stared into my crystal ball and this is what I see happening in regards to Apple in 2017,” Dennis Sellers writes for Apple World Today. “First, let’s look at the Mac line-up, which was sorely neglected this year.”
“The iMac will be revved with faster Kaby processors and get updated graphics,” Sellers writes. “For the latter, I expect the AMD’s Zen processor in most models, and and AMD Polaris Graphics set in a high-end model. The new iMacs will also implement a True Tone display.”
“What of the Mac Pro and Mac mini? I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Apple abandoned both products and promoted an “iMac Pro” as the desktop for creative professionals and a low-end iMac ($999 or less) as its entry-level desktop,” Sellers writes. “However, I’m going to be optimistic and predict that both models will be upgraded with new specs, but in the same design.”
Many more predictions in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We’d love to see Apple double-down on the Mac in 2017, but, after 2016, we’ll take just about any love we can get (to take nothing away from this year’s welcome MacBook upgrades, Siri-fied macOS Sierra, and the groundbreaking new MacBook Pro.)
Here is my prediction, from a somewhat cloudy crystal ball.
iMac will get processor upgrades (and Like the MacBook Pro substantial price increases).
Mac Mini will be killed off.
Mac Pro will languish for another year.
iPads will get a processor upgrade and another price hike.
For some reason Tim likes the strategy of Disney, kill what your customers like and rase the price.
Jeff wrote: “For some reason Tim likes the strategy of Disney, kill what your customers like and rase the price.”
“rase the price” = basement dwelling PC gamer.
The Mac Mini is dead. Apple is waiting for the right time to let us know.
My first Mac was the Mini, so it was great at introducing me to the OS X system.
As for the Pro, who at Apple wants to work on them? Most of the top managers of Apple have probably never used one.
When Apple redesigned the Mac Pro to look like a trash can, their subconscious was sending a message….
you might be right that none of the top managers used the Mac Pro but here is a pix of Jony Ive’s studio late last year. A lot his designers are still using Cheese Grater Mac Pros (under the tables). Probably using the cheesers as they have UPGRADEABLE GPUs , necessary for some tasks, instead of the Cylinder. (can’t be using them to save costs right? when they are spending BILLIONS on the new building? and they can get Cylinders at cost price… ) Shows how useless the cylinder is for real work.
One day Apple will have a state of the art BUILDING and 2010 Cheese graters for the staff. Note Apple makes COMPUTERS not BUILDINGS …. What will people think?
Jony will take the last staffers knowledgeable about Mac HW design and assign them to the bleeding edge watch and design team.
Tim will christen the iPad Pro the new Mac Pro as you can now ‘do everything in the cloud’.
At WWDC, Apple will introduce a new line of Jony’s Skinny Jeans that have no pockets, buttons, or zippers. They will start at $1,000 a pair and ship in quantity sometime before the next Presidential election. The matching T shirt will only come in one size XXS, be hand sewn by Tibetan Monks, and come in hot pink with lavender piping. Jony will come out on stage- not to tease anything, just to come out.
Hope I am wrong, but Apple seems adrift, unfocused and determined to spiral into irrelevance.
Computers, we don’t need no stinkin’ Macs, we got Dells, dude.
Were I an IT manager, I could not in good conscience spend a nickel on a Macintosh. Apple has castrated it and is steadily turning it into an iPad with a keyboard. That leaves you with a Linux and Windows 10. HP’s new Slice modular PC is what the Mac mini could be if anyone at Apple gave a damn, and yes it is available with i7 Quad Core CPU, offers an optional charging deck and can be powered by some HP displays.
Watch band design team.
Auto correct bites again.
“At WWDC, Apple will introduce a new line of Jony’s Skinny Jeans that have no pockets, buttons, or zippers. They will start at $1,000 a pair and ship in quantity sometime before the next Presidential election. The matching T shirt will only come in one size XXS, be hand sewn by Tibetan Monks, and come in hot pink with lavender piping. Jony will come out on stage- not to tease anything, just to come out.”
This is very, very funny. I’m still chuckling. Bravo to DavGreg
Here’s mine.
Tim – “We got some amazing things in the pipeline”
Months later – a Apple Stapler
Bad press, pissed off customers, slow sales, lack on inventory
for the stapler
A month after that – Tim – “We got some amazing things in the pipeline”
Annouce a “new” Mac Pro, comes without a power cable, no I/O, it’s thinner, flasher, has a hologram of Tim Cook on it, available in 3 years, but get excited over it… meanwhile samsung rips the idea off and has 4 versions out before Apple has it’s first one out.
Bad press, pissed off customers, stock declines
A month after that – Tim – “We got some amazing things in the pipeline”, We’re gonna give a higher dividend to make investors happy with our smoke and mirrors clueless trajectory.
Back to school season, Apple acquires “eraser” for $5 Billion. Slaps a Apple logo on it and insists “this” eraser is better than any other eraser, available in November for the “back to school” release.
Bad press, pissed off customers, slow sales…
Tim replies- “We got some amazing things in the pipeline”
Christmas season comes, Apple book v2, this time in a thinner and faster book, which reads amazing is released for the Christmas season… but in 1 second is sold out, due to them printing 5 copies, of which Tim’s parents purchased the first 4, so now it’s shipping in 12 weeks (8 weeks AFTER Christmas)
Tim – “We got some amazing things in the pipeline”
Apple decides to let samsung make the phone now, selling on Apple.com. Resurrects Dell to make computers, now on Apple.com. Amazon take over the Tv ecosystem. Sells all software divisions to other companies. Focuses all energy on iWatch and books. Book now comes with a cover, but you need to buy each page individually (see dongles) if you want the book. Watch now comes without bands, without hands, without batteries.
Tim – “We got some amazing things in the pipeline”
…..
ya know what Tim Cook, ya know what I want in the pipeline?
YOU to be FIRED and REPLACED
If you understand my post and feel the pain, take 1 second to agree with this and help gain more awareness to this clueless leader to be replaced ASAP!
https://www.change.org/p/apple-board-of-directors-remove-tim-cook-as-ceo-of-apple
They don’t need to fire Tim Cook. Replacing him won’t improve anything. They need to restructure the company to fit the talents of a CEO who is not Steve Jobs.
actually they do need to replace him.
they need a CEO that DIRECTS the talent within the company and knows how to exemplify their strengths, hide the weaknesses and have vision.. that is a CEO’s job.. I know.. I am one.. to 14 corporations..
Lot of damn negative posts on this forum lately…mostly from the same people. Things go in cycles, folks. I look forward to the day sometime soon when I will be able to throw all of this griping back in your faces. Until then, happy doom and gloom to you all.
Perception is a fragile thing and worms turn quickly. Apple’s Reality Distortion Field generator has failed often enough of late that the new conventional wisdom is to now instantly diss them for all faults large and small, real and imagined.
But it didn’t have to be. Who told the company with the world’s largest cash hoard to neglect the Mac lines until everyone noticed? And etc. We all know the list.
Trouble is, once you lose that mojo, and you have no charismatic leader to believe in, getting it back is waaay difficult. But they have no one to blame but themselves.
Just curious, do you really think Apple is at the top of their game lately?
Apple should make OS X available to install on PCs if they are unable to provide a pro computer.
Or people will build hackintoshes while they continue designing watch bands.
Happy new year!
Mac user since 1988
It’s the best out there, but has more issues than ever. Those two ideas don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
Time was when things like the Apple Human Interface Guidelines were the basis of how well Mac operating systems AND software worked, and that made Apple what it is.
Now, the apps that are built for both Mac and Windows generally work equally well.
it’s now the app developers that determine how well things work, not so much OS developers. Apple could get that advantage back by going back to those guidelines in the OS and ESPECIALLY Apple apps.
Will they? My guess is that the developers at Apple are so young that they might not be aware of the guidelines, and heaven forbid they could acknowledge something created when they were 3 years old. Didn’t the history of the world begin the day they were born?
Jony Ive rewrote the Human Interface Guidelines in the light of his background in graphic arts. He has no background in UI design. No one checks or approves his work before it goes out. There is no usability testing.
Thus the UI looks like an extraterrestrial circus poster.
Apple knows what customers do not like before they do. Just like the reverse.
Face it, the MAC is dead. Time to move on. All Apple’s fault too.
I beg to differ. The MAC (media access control) address will be with us for years to come. There is no successor in the works.
It is possible the Mac is dead, but the MAC will be with us for a long time.
(Why do people type “MAC” when they mean “Mac”? They don’t write TOM, Dick, Harry, and BOB.)