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Re:MacBook Pro by rayiner on Thursday October 27, 2016 @03:20PM (#12808737)
Wacom releases innovative products all the time, but I don't think that makes Apple's regularly-scheduled update "embarrassing."

Microsoft just blew Wacom out of the water in a niche product market. Great. What does that have to do with new MBPs?

Re:MacBook Pro by criley2 on Thursday October 27, 2016 @04:36PM (#12809766)
>Wacom releases innovative products all the time,

Hahahahahahahahaha

Wacom hasn't released an innovative product in 10 years, and much like Texas Instruments and their $130 monopoly on school calculators, everyone is still paying the same $2500 to Wacom that they did decades ago for Cintiq.

The lack of competition for Wacom is criminal and has allowed them to coast on last-decades product line for a very long time.

Hell, the most innovative thing Wacom has done in 10 years is rebrand Graphire into Bamboo. Ooooooh!

I imagine the day the Apple Pencil was announced was a very grim day in what ever is left of the Wacom R&D department.

Re:MacBook Pro by lloyd-christmas on Thursday October 27, 2016 @03:37PM (#12808984)
> Wacom releases innovative products all the time

Does Wacom have an entire suite of comparable products, or do they cater specifically to a niche market? Was their announcement yesterday? Life has context.

> What does that have to do with new MBPs?

I'll go ahead and quote the original comment you originally responded to: "This event was by far the most disappointing Mac event in the history". Apple had an event where they announced not much more than that we are now in late 2016. Nobody is saying MBP itself is bad, the event is comparatively lacking.