Did Apple Blow It in 2022?

How did Apple do in 2022? In this video, I rank each product released and more!

[fVNzO]

I will never understand how you're able to make these videos so engaging. This felt like a 10 minute video but somehow it was 30 minutes.

[paulladwig]

Agree on the ads, they should really review the approach there

[nad]

0:37 iPhone
5:31 Apple Watch
9:18 iPad
11:54 Mac
16:05 Accessories
19:39 Software
26:00 Services

[Lampredi]

Maybe reparability ought to be a criteria they’re judged on too. Just like with sustainability, the corporations won’t learn if we don’t shame them for it.

[aslilac]

your grade for macOS was too nice 😅 using multiple monitors still sucks, it still completely fails at arranging windows when you plug your laptop into an external monitor, notifications are still nonsense, the settings app is somehow worse than it was before, and it's just overall got all the same bugs that it's had for years. and instead of the tiling window manager we all wanted, we got a bad port of a bad ipad window manager.

[ChickenOfMajesty]

5:35 Small correction: AOD for Apple Watch was introduced in the Series 5, not Series 6.

Great vid!

[deanlk]

I'm buying an iphone when it gets usbc not a day before 😂

[CNile-sexw]

Count me in on HATING the new System Preference format. 😡
The redeeming fact is that from this vid, I've learnt that it's not just me.
I love my Mac Studio but am lukewarm about the Studio Display, so again, I'm on board.
My biggest headache comes from my iPhone 12 Pro Max which demands a daily charge, despite me being phon-phobic & rarely using data.

[alejandrodiazart]

I agree on most points, and the camera being on the wrong spot is definitely a huge miss by Apple…HOWEVER, the pencil hover is an absolute game-changer if your usage of an iPad Pro is for digital art. This takes it to a whole new level for most digital artists and generally makes it where I don’t use my cintiq anymore, a device that is both far more expensive, and not something I would take with me to the couch and paint (unless I don’t consider blood circulation on my legs to be a pressing issue, or constant trips to a chiropractor).
It just is one of those things where the intended usage makes a dramatic issue. For me the m2 iPad Pro is literally my favorite electronic device of the last decade.

[HenrikoMagnifico]

Honestly I like lightning more as a physical connector, since it's both slimmer and also I find it more durable, since if anything the cable breaks, not the connector itself (which has happened on usb-c before). It's just that lightning is so darn slow

[tadpetts]

In hindsight im kinda impressed how well the Studio fit into my needs. Was basically the perfect machine right when I needed it.

[lenn]

I agree the new Ventura System Prefs app is garbage. Whoever thought it up should be let go.

[natbarmore]

2:39 I love the idea of an AOD for my iPhone, but apparently not in the way that anyone else does:

- wallpaper: whatever. Off is fine. Dimmed or blurred is fine. Full-intensity seems a waste, but I wouldn’t mind provided the battery life was still good.

- time/date: don’t need it. In fact, want it gone. I was _so_ happy to discover that iOS 16 introduced the ability to not show the time on the lockscreen! And then so frustrated when it turns out only Apple’s built-in Sleep Focus Mode provides that option. That brings a whole bunch of other baggage with it, tying into things like sleep tracking, that make using that as my default mode a no-go. And sleep is the only time I _want_ the time displayed on the lockscreen: if I roll over in the middle of the night and peek at my phone, it’s to see what time it is, and I don’t want to have to fumble with unlocking it, getting Face ID properly aligned, etc., when I’m barely awake. Or with accidentally turning it on blinding bright.

The rest of the time, I don’t need the time in half-inch letters constantly staring at me. At best it’s a waste of screen real estate. At worst it’s agitating. If I need to know the time, I can unlock my phone.

- I want the same sorts of widgets on an always-on display that I have on my Home Screen or the widgets page: full-color, large, interactive, and possibly live-updating. Not the little simplified tiny buttons, almost overshadowed by the time, that we have.

My ideal always-on display would have my to-do list taking up about 2/3 of the screen, and then a couple small-square widgets (probably a pomodoro timer and my food tracker) and then a notifications area. That’s it. Don’t need the time or the date or the weather or any of that clutter. Don’t need to see my wallpaper. Just want my to-do list _always_ there at a glance, even without unlocking my phone.

[claytonberg]

Thanks for the warning on Ventura. I've been putting off the upgrade figuring I'd like them figure out the first gen bugs and haven't done any research into it. It sounds like a solid no go.

[a]

I’d agree with all the grades bar one. Ventura, the system preferences app is so bad that it drops the grade down to D-
The biggest gain for me this year was multi app / window support on the iPad. I just hope they double down and nail those bugs, the worst being the keyboard input bug whereby you type but it doesn’t register.

[jonafoto]

I actually love the format of this video, hope you do more of these!

[Bliss]

I have to use teams for work, and I've generally enjoyed the simplicity of the calendar app, which nearly matches the versatility of the calendar pane in teams. meanwhile, you can see missed calls in the phone app, so it makes me wish calendar, phone, messages, mail, and FaceTime fully opened up so that could just plug into each of them. less is more. for the same reason I don't like having 2 of every app on a Samsung phone, I don't want two calendar apps, two call apps, two meeting apps, two mail apps, etc, etc....

[geekyranjit]

Loved it, When it's a spade you are not afraid to call it a spade! Kudos and respect to you!

[CaptainMarvelEver]

After getting an M1 MacBook last year I've slowly been getting into more Apple products. Overall after deep diving into Apple products these year seems like a slow but steady move forward, which isn't bad, I'd say most products they're putting out right now are pretty satisfactory. I'm even willing to pay full price for those new AirPods.
Also glad to see someone else who feels the same way I do about smart watches. Fitness tracking is nice, but otherwise I don't see the point if I have a phone. Certainly not good enough for me to give up a nice time piece.

[SamJessop]

On the Snazzy Editing setup in this video, is that 2x 32in displays or 2x 27in displays?