- Feb 14, 2004
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Visited one of the local Apple Stores for an iPhone issue today. Thoughts: (warning, I'm gonna be kinda whiny)
1. Awkwardly creepy. The original ultra-clean store designs were cool, but at least at this store (a newer one), everything was...waaaaaaay too pristine. Every shelf was perfectly stocked. All of the boxes from all of the vendors met a certain white design criteria. I used to like stopping by the Apple Store to check things out but it felt really...weird.
2. No bathrooms. No place to sit. They don't even have a Genius Bar anymore...they just disappear behind a door that is the same color as the wall to fix your stuff. Like I said, kinda creepy lol. And annoying, if you have to spend any amount of time in one!
3. The new Mac Pro absolutely looks like a shiny metal trash can
4. Not impressed with the iPad Pro's stylus. Not very responsive. I've been a Wacom Intuos users for years; was expecting better.
5. The LG 5K display was glorious. Odd that it was black & not silver. Image quality was great though. Really really great. Retina-quality great. I want one!
6. I still can't believe they haven't updated the Mac Mini. It looks super out of place next to everything. Intel is killing it with the new NUC (NVMe, 32GB RAM, 4K, i7, etc.). Hopefully Apple updates it this month...
7. Biggest surprise to me was the OLED touchbar on the new Macbook Pro laptops. It actually works awesome! Zero lag, great graphics & animations...I could see actually being super useful if you're not a keyboard shortcut person. Stuff like rotating photos worked great!
8. Not to be super judgemental, but they had a class going on for teaching OS X...everyone at that table would be far better off (including the teacher) if the iMacs & Macbooks ran iOS, as much as I hate to say (or imagine) that. But with how things have been going (Mac App Store, neutering Final Cut, killing off Aperture & Shake before that, etc.), why not right?
I used to be a huge Apple fanboy & ate it all up when Steve Jobs was still alive. It feels like they've halted all progress with innovative development since then. I still prefer iPhones (Androids feel like too much of a computer to me & I feel like they're even more insecure than a Windows machine at this point), but with even Dell coming out with twice as awesome laptop designs at half the price, it's hard to get really enthusiastic about Apple these days. It's 2017 & the iPhones aren't even waterproof, you know?
TL;DR: The Apple Store has crossed the line to weirdness. OLED touchbar turned out to be amazing. Kinda want to put a NUC in a trashcan & call it a Hack Pro.
1. Awkwardly creepy. The original ultra-clean store designs were cool, but at least at this store (a newer one), everything was...waaaaaaay too pristine. Every shelf was perfectly stocked. All of the boxes from all of the vendors met a certain white design criteria. I used to like stopping by the Apple Store to check things out but it felt really...weird.
2. No bathrooms. No place to sit. They don't even have a Genius Bar anymore...they just disappear behind a door that is the same color as the wall to fix your stuff. Like I said, kinda creepy lol. And annoying, if you have to spend any amount of time in one!
3. The new Mac Pro absolutely looks like a shiny metal trash can
4. Not impressed with the iPad Pro's stylus. Not very responsive. I've been a Wacom Intuos users for years; was expecting better.
5. The LG 5K display was glorious. Odd that it was black & not silver. Image quality was great though. Really really great. Retina-quality great. I want one!
6. I still can't believe they haven't updated the Mac Mini. It looks super out of place next to everything. Intel is killing it with the new NUC (NVMe, 32GB RAM, 4K, i7, etc.). Hopefully Apple updates it this month...
7. Biggest surprise to me was the OLED touchbar on the new Macbook Pro laptops. It actually works awesome! Zero lag, great graphics & animations...I could see actually being super useful if you're not a keyboard shortcut person. Stuff like rotating photos worked great!
8. Not to be super judgemental, but they had a class going on for teaching OS X...everyone at that table would be far better off (including the teacher) if the iMacs & Macbooks ran iOS, as much as I hate to say (or imagine) that. But with how things have been going (Mac App Store, neutering Final Cut, killing off Aperture & Shake before that, etc.), why not right?
I used to be a huge Apple fanboy & ate it all up when Steve Jobs was still alive. It feels like they've halted all progress with innovative development since then. I still prefer iPhones (Androids feel like too much of a computer to me & I feel like they're even more insecure than a Windows machine at this point), but with even Dell coming out with twice as awesome laptop designs at half the price, it's hard to get really enthusiastic about Apple these days. It's 2017 & the iPhones aren't even waterproof, you know?
TL;DR: The Apple Store has crossed the line to weirdness. OLED touchbar turned out to be amazing. Kinda want to put a NUC in a trashcan & call it a Hack Pro.