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Top 5 WORST Apple Products of the past DECADE!
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Worst Apple Products of the last DECADE + Fixes!
Apple Mouse. All of them really
I can’t work out why Apple doesn’t quite get the mouse. Head over to Amazon and you can find hundreds, thousands even of mice that may not be that fancy but they get the job done. Apple seems to have a bit of innovation syndrome here, and they can’t help themselves but try to change something that already works pretty well.
The Touch Bar
Now I hate to say this because I love the concept of the Touch Bar, but Apple didn’t do a great job with it. Putting in Touch ID, great move. Customisable controls? Great move. Being able to slider control your volume? Awesome. But not being able to just hit your volume buttons without looking and not having a physical escape key (though at least they fixed that down the line).
Apple’s Webcams
In a surprise to no-one who’s owned a fairly recent Mac, Apple’s FaceTime cameras in Macs have pretty much sucked for a while now. The 2015 12” MacBook came with a 480p potato where the camera should have been, and even Apple’s MacBook Pro line and almost every iMac came with just 720p sensors, only coming up to the dizzy heights of 1080p with the now discontinued iMac Pro.
HomePods and Siri
Just like the mouse, Apple was one of the first companies to bring voice assistants to their devices. Siri was initially a stand alone App that was destined for iOS and Android before Apple bought the company to integrate its functions into the iPhone 4s. Since then Siri has spread her wings and now lives in your Apple TV remote, Apple Watch, HomePods, Mac and even in your AirPods, reading your text messages to you.
MacBooks from 2015-2019
Now this is one of those times when Apple isn’t 100% to blame, but some of it. We’ve already talked about sucky webcams which 100% comes down to Apple’s need to make things thinner and lighter at the cost of all else. This need also lead to the notorious Butterfly keyboard that started out with the massively underpowered MacBook 12” and then sadly crept into the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air lines, only to be replaced again with the Magic Keyboards in 2020.
MacBook Pro models had massive issues with thermal throttling too, meaning much of the power that you were buying was left on the table whenever you tried to do something demanding… which is sort of the point of having that power in the first place. And this is where Apple’s blame starts to fade away a bit, for the MacBook Pros, MacBook 12” and even later MacBook Airs.
Apple had designed their enclosures based on what Intel had promised would be coming down the line on their roadmap, but then Intel started to fail to make the progress they were expecting. As a result, to get their performance gains Intel’s chips had to use more energy, and that energy had to go somewhere, in the form of heat, which the chassis was never built to handle. Because Apple doesn’t use cheap plastic casings and instead their unibody Aluminium bodies for their Macs, there’s much more development behind them and making changes to thermals isn’t easy, so Apple had to push forward with Macs that couldn’t perform as well as they should. Apple could have gone with more aggressive fan curves, but as a company they’ve always hated noisy computers, just look back to the G4 Cube, a fan less computer released back in 2002.
But something amazing happened as a result of Intel’s failures here, Apple was pushed to keep developing their own A-series chips that were making iPads and iPhones rapidly catch up with and overtake a lot of Laptop chips, and in June 2020 Apple announced their switch to Apple Silicon over the coming 2 years. In November, we got our first taste of what M1 can do, completely destroying pretty much anything else in a laptop at their first attempt in benchmarks, real world computing tests and battery life. Still in those thin and light enclosures, and in the case of the MacBook Air, taking the fan away completely. In the case of the Mac mini, reducing the price vs the Intel model it replaced and performing better than even the high end intel models still in the line. And this is only the beginning. Soon Apple Silicon will come to iMac, higher end MacBook Pros (again, the M1 outperforms ALL of the existing MacBook Pros in most tasks, while also being the cheapest and having the best battery life), and when Mac Pro eventually goes Apple Silicon, there will likely be nothing in the desktop market that comes close. Believe me we did the maths and you can check out the numbers up here.
So those are the worst 5 Apple products of the past decade, let me know why I’m wrong down in the comments and subscribe for the latest Apple news leaks and rumours every weekday at 12 UTC from iCaveDave.
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Apple Mouse. All of them really
I can’t work out why Apple doesn’t quite get the mouse. Head over to Amazon and you can find hundreds, thousands even of mice that may not be that fancy but they get the job done. Apple seems to have a bit of innovation syndrome here, and they can’t help themselves but try to change something that already works pretty well.
The Touch Bar
Now I hate to say this because I love the concept of the Touch Bar, but Apple didn’t do a great job with it. Putting in Touch ID, great move. Customisable controls? Great move. Being able to slider control your volume? Awesome. But not being able to just hit your volume buttons without looking and not having a physical escape key (though at least they fixed that down the line).
Apple’s Webcams
In a surprise to no-one who’s owned a fairly recent Mac, Apple’s FaceTime cameras in Macs have pretty much sucked for a while now. The 2015 12” MacBook came with a 480p potato where the camera should have been, and even Apple’s MacBook Pro line and almost every iMac came with just 720p sensors, only coming up to the dizzy heights of 1080p with the now discontinued iMac Pro.
HomePods and Siri
Just like the mouse, Apple was one of the first companies to bring voice assistants to their devices. Siri was initially a stand alone App that was destined for iOS and Android before Apple bought the company to integrate its functions into the iPhone 4s. Since then Siri has spread her wings and now lives in your Apple TV remote, Apple Watch, HomePods, Mac and even in your AirPods, reading your text messages to you.
MacBooks from 2015-2019
Now this is one of those times when Apple isn’t 100% to blame, but some of it. We’ve already talked about sucky webcams which 100% comes down to Apple’s need to make things thinner and lighter at the cost of all else. This need also lead to the notorious Butterfly keyboard that started out with the massively underpowered MacBook 12” and then sadly crept into the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air lines, only to be replaced again with the Magic Keyboards in 2020.
MacBook Pro models had massive issues with thermal throttling too, meaning much of the power that you were buying was left on the table whenever you tried to do something demanding… which is sort of the point of having that power in the first place. And this is where Apple’s blame starts to fade away a bit, for the MacBook Pros, MacBook 12” and even later MacBook Airs.
Apple had designed their enclosures based on what Intel had promised would be coming down the line on their roadmap, but then Intel started to fail to make the progress they were expecting. As a result, to get their performance gains Intel’s chips had to use more energy, and that energy had to go somewhere, in the form of heat, which the chassis was never built to handle. Because Apple doesn’t use cheap plastic casings and instead their unibody Aluminium bodies for their Macs, there’s much more development behind them and making changes to thermals isn’t easy, so Apple had to push forward with Macs that couldn’t perform as well as they should. Apple could have gone with more aggressive fan curves, but as a company they’ve always hated noisy computers, just look back to the G4 Cube, a fan less computer released back in 2002.
But something amazing happened as a result of Intel’s failures here, Apple was pushed to keep developing their own A-series chips that were making iPads and iPhones rapidly catch up with and overtake a lot of Laptop chips, and in June 2020 Apple announced their switch to Apple Silicon over the coming 2 years. In November, we got our first taste of what M1 can do, completely destroying pretty much anything else in a laptop at their first attempt in benchmarks, real world computing tests and battery life. Still in those thin and light enclosures, and in the case of the MacBook Air, taking the fan away completely. In the case of the Mac mini, reducing the price vs the Intel model it replaced and performing better than even the high end intel models still in the line. And this is only the beginning. Soon Apple Silicon will come to iMac, higher end MacBook Pros (again, the M1 outperforms ALL of the existing MacBook Pros in most tasks, while also being the cheapest and having the best battery life), and when Mac Pro eventually goes Apple Silicon, there will likely be nothing in the desktop market that comes close. Believe me we did the maths and you can check out the numbers up here.
So those are the worst 5 Apple products of the past decade, let me know why I’m wrong down in the comments and subscribe for the latest Apple news leaks and rumours every weekday at 12 UTC from iCaveDave.
Join the conversation
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