Reply to post: Too inefficient to manage the 'ecosystem' products

You can blame laziness as much as greed for Apple's New Year shock

Confused Vorlon

Too inefficient to manage the 'ecosystem' products

Part of the Apple 'story' has been that you can buy a whole ecosystem of products where 'everything just works'

I have iMacs using Thunderbolt extra displays, macbook pro, apple tv, mac mini as a media centre, backing up to an Apple Time Machine.

Apple have completely given up on the wifi networking.

If they were innovating - they could be selling mesh network devices that extend the apple network around the house while offering airplay 2 speakers or Apple TV and Siri.

(assuming they decided to make Siri decent)

TimeMachine is fantastic - but suddenly more difficult now that I can't buy an apple device to back up to

No thunderbolt/cinema display is available any more

Mac Mini and Mac Pro have been abandoned for years (mac mini recently updated).

As they narrow the product range - they force people to connect with other ecosystems and lose their grip on the 'everything just works' story.

They are behaving like a small company that can't afford to manage a wide product range and needs to focus on a few core items.

That seems like a mistake to me.

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