Apple’s 2013 Scorecard

Re:Apple’s 2013 Scorecard by dbg31415 on Thursday January 02, 2014 @06:16PM (#7003098)

iTunes is starting to show its age. Can't stand it any more, would much rather just use Pandora or Spotify. It's just so... clunky in comparison. Needs a meaningful re-work. Not just the BS "hide the bar you actually use" kind of a re-work like they did this year or last.

Also missing from the list... "Give us another cool new thing." Everything they did this year was just a minor upgrade. I'm fairly technical and I can't tell you what OS X Mavericks did that the last one didn't... or for that matter what any of the last 3 revisions have really added... all I know is that Office on a Mac still sucks, and Pages doesn't let you work on and save Word files as Word files without jacking them up. Someone please make it so I can use Word docs correctly on a Mac and I'd be happy. Basic basic functionality...

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Re:Apple’s 2013 Scorecard by interpol_p on Thursday January 02, 2014 @07:27PM (#7003456)

> Also missing from the list... "Give us another cool new thing." Everything they did this year was just a minor upgrade.

But they produced two very big new things:

- Mac Pro, a completely re-imagined workstation with some extremely clever engineering and a push for future GPU computing using OpenCL

- iOS 7, a very big change to their most popular OS

You ask for a "cool new thing" but then you complain about a lot of minor, iterative issues ("Office on Mac still sucks", "Pages doesn't let you...", "Basic basic functionality...").

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