Lots of opinions,on this board - @#$%&, even - about changes at Apple over the years. So, here's your chance to think about fixing your favorite hardware design gripes or adding a cool feature set.

I want a retina display, 13" Mac laptop with LTE that's user serviceable for SSD/HD and RAM.

How about you? Post your ideas here!

Ergonomic keyboard.

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Expandable mid tower desktop under $1500

I'd spend up a hell of a lot of his money on my life. That's be it.

An 18" MBP.

Cash my paycheck.

One day is not enough . . . I need to see what is in the "secret lab area" and go from there.

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Bill
Flagler Beach, FL 32136

Carpe Vino!

Fermentation may have been a greater discovery than fire.
— David Rains Wallace

I'd put into production:
1. An Apple-branded, wireless, backlit keyboard with number pad
2. BTO option for CD drive in Mac Mini (or shrink the Mini by the space that drive occupied)
3. Create a base that goes under each computer to bring ports to the front
4. Update iPod Nano with Bluetooth and also add an entry gate/garage door remote
5. Turn AppleTV into an AppleTiVo/wireless router

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Le poète doit vivre beaucoup, vivre dans tous les sens. - Verlaine

Hide the glue.

Newton emulator for the iPad. External 400kb floppy, ADB, SCSI, and cd-rom compatibility for iOS. Backwards compatibility everywhere!

Safe to say retina displays (or better) will be across all equipment models in the future - so that is an almost-given.

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With Tim Cook's cooperation... Replace my retail chief and make a new professional Desktop line with full-tower and compact-tower versions, not unlike the 21-inch and 27-inch iMac options.

Then I'd lock myself in my office for a week with the GUI design team and fix all the stuff we broke in 10.7-10.8 in a misguided attempt to unite a touchscreen consumption-oriented interface with a mouse/trackpad production-oriented interface.

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Then I'd get cracking on putting all of the features back in OS X server and making it a compelling purchase for enterprise customers.



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Eliminate all the stupid market segmentation.
One iPad, 32GB with uXD slot for memory expansion and USB 3
30" retina display
iMac with easily user upgradeable CPU, GPU, and HD
option for MacBook Pro with a real professional GPU and 4 GB VRAM
mini and mini Pro with a PCIe slot
iPhone with true worldwide 4G service

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in tha 510.

A couple more: I'd go back to using standard hard drives and SATA cables in the iMacs and set the engineers on making both iMacs and Apple laptops as easily-repairable as possible.



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lift weights, organize my tshirts.

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I wouldn't change anything. Apple is the most valued and most profitable company in the world, why mess around?

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I wouldn't change anything. Apple is the most valued and most profitable company in the world, why mess around?

That doesn't mean they are perfect. Instead, that attitude only fuels hubris IMHO.

Jobs was immune his last 5 years because he knew he was on borrowed time.

Load up the back of my truck with samples.

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Get rid of the embarrassing skeuomorphic iCal and Address Book skins.

Not because they're in themselves a big deal. Because of the reasoning behind the decision to even consider them.

Wait. Forget the skins. Just fire the people who thought they were a brilliant idea.

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Mac Pro 2.8Ghz Quad-Core tower, 14G RAM • Mountain Lion 10.8.x • Dual 24" ViewSonic LCDs • 11" i5 MacBook Air •

Get rid of the embarrassing skeuomorphic iCal and Address Book skins.

Did that already.

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You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

-An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

There is no safety for honest men
except by believing all possible evil
of evil men.

Pixels were born to be punished. -Frederick Van Johnson

Mister, that's a ten-gallon hat on a twenty-gallon head.

I *love* Sigs. It's Glocks I hate.

27" Mini.

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Bring back the Cube.

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Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where the weather is wonderful even when it isn't.

Ok, I'll add some more concepts.

Turn the nano into a true iPhone companion piece. Full iOS integration with iCloud.

Get Apple to Buy Adobe.
Make Rosetta an extra cost option, like Server.

Find a way to make more items user upgradable, or them an optional, extra millimeters thick version.

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San Antonio, TX (in the old city)

"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."
-- Edmund Burke
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt (1918)

Make Siri run on an iPhone 4.

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Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where the weather is wonderful even when it isn't.

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Let Make Siri run on an iPhone 4.

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San Antonio, TX (in the old city)

"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."
-- Edmund Burke
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt (1918)

Change the way Lion handles windows. It opens them with far too much empty space. Tighten around window content, to allow several windows to be open at the same time without having to manually juggle them.

At least embed an option to decide if you want full-screen windows a la Lion, or the more efficient tiled windows.