Q: No DVD drive in new iMac ???

Unlike you I don't claim to be able to see the future, and as my Apple holdings are worth 6 times the price I paid for them I place my trust in Apple. In short I doubt that your scenario will happen. When and if it does you'll have the satisfaction of being right, until then your just another amateur pundit, one with no pre-existing reputation for accuracy.

The iMac never was an all in one, that's why it has ports for connecting things.

You are always entitled to guess, and post your guesses here, I don't place any credence in them whatsoever.

You don't have to believe the predictions, that is your prerogative, but the history is VERY correct. That is why when Shake went out we move to After Effects on a much faster Windows machine. As each pro app dies from Apple we move to an equal app from another manufacturer. Most of which are on non-Apple hardware using Windows or Linux derivatives. We go where the money generation is. We work for a living, not play to support Apple. You don't see Adobe yanking Encore... gee I wonder why. Maybe because Adobe's market is professional content creators, while Apple is amateur content consumers?

justamacguy wrote:

 

You don't have to believe the predictions,

I don't.

Why would someone give Apple $80 for a Super Drive, when you can get an aftermarket BluRay drive for the same price... Go figure.

justamacguy wrote:

 

Why would someone give Apple $80 for a Super Drive, when you can get an aftermarket BluRay drive for the same price... Go figure.

Quite right, you can buy a significantly superior drive if you choose to, or a significantly cheaper drive if you just want Superdrive functionality, it is a choice.

heidismiles wrote:

 

Yes I do get that and I understand they are moving into mostly served online and not wanting to burn anymore. It's just if you get a backup drive it's still crashing and you lose all your family photos and music ect. Yes you can get an online backup but there is still people that want to burn and give out family photos on Dvd or what ever.It's not about the money of buying an added drive either I just hate to have to have another machine hanging around. I have wireless machines and three external drives and now an optical drive. I would just love it to go back in my mac so it's less machines around.Yes I do love that mac is the guys that move forward but I believe sometimes it just to fast and I do believe there will be a time you won't be able to buy dvd's or cd's. But until they can make a external drive that won't crash people just don't trust not having a hard copy of there thing's. It's sad that so many people lose all there family photos in a crash and in the old day's only a house fire would do that. Just remember if your home were on fire what is the first thing you grabe. Your family photos.........

Backup, and use an external hard drive. (unless you have a very small amount of stuff to backup (less than 5G) in which case use a thumb drive. And then make a second backup (drives fail sometimes)

You're again being obtuse. I read your response and had to see who you was replying to because your response was, discombobulated.

1. I posted nothing about a claim to see the future.

2. I do not know of the scenario in which you speak of that I supposedly posted. I did post something that ACTUALLY happened (I wonder if Apple employees are tired of answering that question).

3. The iMac has always been marketed as an 'all in one'.

4. I don't know of any 'guesses' that I posted.

If you'd speak more coherently and on subject instead of avoiding and dodging questions, maybe people here would lend more credence to your constant Apple apologetics. So, back to my question: Why are you making excuses for Apple? Why can't you do what 90% of others, like myself, who used to support Apple's marketing decisions, just man up and say they screwed up?

cwmmjm wrote:

 

You're again being obtuse. I read your response and had to see who you was replying to because your response was, discombobulated.

You couldn't understand this?

Seems simple to me.

Dodging the question, yet again.

What is your question, I'll address it when it is posted here, clearly.

Why are you making excuses for Apple?

Why can't you do what 90% of others, like myself, who used to support Apple's marketing decisions, just man up and say they screwed up?

Why can't you do what 90% of others, like myself, who used to support Apple's marketing decisions, just man up and say they screwed up?

So, that's the question:

OK

I don't agree with you or the other 90% (who's existence is in doubt without some attribution for the figures)

But you should consider buying something else if Apple is not to your choice.

Your dodge isn't even clever. You want to attack figures and the lack of attribution. Okay, so I know 10 people, myself included, and nine of us think they screwed up and you think they didn't = 90%!

Why are you making excuses for Apple? This thread makes it pretty clear they screwed up.

cwmmjm wrote:

 

Your dodge isn't even clever. You want to attack figures and the lack of attribution. Okay, so I know 10 people, myself included, and nine of us think they screwed up and you think they didn't = 90%!

I know 100 people (me not included), 99 of them think it's fine, = 99% who don't think they screwed up.

Don't play childish number games, they are obvious.

So you have excluded the OP and all the others in this thread that think they hit a foul ball. Since it's a religion to you, it's going to be hard to see past your arrogance to realize it's a MISTAKE. That's okay, we can agree to disagree.

Childish numbers? I liked that one.