Most people configure a system when they buy it and that's the end of that.
I said "many people," not most people bought them because they were easy to upgrade.
Wiggle wiggle wiggle. You have no idea what percentage of people upgrade.
I never stated a percentage. I simly stated the fact that many people bought minis because they were upgradeable.
Not very many and certainly not enough to justify a separate product.
However, Apple definitely knows, which is why they design the systems the way they do. One look at industry sales numbers confirms this.
They are simply trying to maximize profits. To that end they don't care about the many people that bought minis for their ease of upgrading.
That's what companies do. In fact, they're required to maximize profits.
The mini is not intended to be upgraded. It never was. It's possible to take them apart (just about everything is), but that doesn't change the design goals. Apple did make memory upgrades easy in the second generation, but that's now no longer the case with soldered memory.
Plus the original Mac mini was a major pain to open (putty knives required).
The 2010 through 2013 models are the ones I was thinking of. Those are very easy to open. I can disassemble one completely in less than 5 minutes.
The point is that the Mac mini is
not targeted at those who upgrade.
I never said it was targeted at such people. I said simly tha pt many people bought the mini for their easy upgradability. You need to read more carefully.
You need to stop being condescending. I know what you said, and it's not as many as you think.
They later made it easy to replace memory, but the hard drives still required quite a bit more work than popping the bottom plate off.
Any person with some basic experience upgrading previous computers could easily disassemble and upgrade a 2010-2013 Mac mini.
Most people don't, and even those who do, aren't interested. They just want it to work.
You're right though that Apple is not deaf. They just don't care. Just like they don't care to fix the many broken things in iOS 8.
Stay on topic. This thread has nothing to do with iOS 8, and bringing it up is both off topic and trolling.
The only one that is trolling right now, is you with such a ridiculous statement.
Nope. Mentioning iOS 8 in a thread about Macs is not only off topic, but claiming 'many things broken' is a gross exaggeration and nothing more than bait, the very definition of trolling.
The mentioning of iOS 8 in that context was simply another example of how Apple often doesn't care what their customers want, hence making it on topic. If I had continued discussing just that then it would have been off topic.
iOS 8 is off topic in a thread about Macs. Period.
Not only that, but if you are trying to show that Apple doesn't care what their customers want, then iOS 8 is the
wrong thing to mention since iOS 8 adds numerous features that users have been asking for, including custom keyboards, various types of extensions and much more. Continuity is particularly useful and that's just what's user-facing. There are a number of internal changes that help developers.
It's also not broken anywhere near as much as you say it is. Nothing is perfect and like everything, there are some bugs, but the major ones have long been fixed and more will be fixed with the next iOS version.
In other words, iOS 8 is proof that Apple
does care about what users want, the exact
opposite of what you're claiming!
Mentioning it was nothing more than a troll.
The only reason why you are mentioning off topic and trolling is because of my signature. You are now doing exactly as it describes. So in accordance with what my signature says, I am now done talking to you due to your trolling. You are the only one that is trolling. When you are ready to get back to the topic then I may continue responding. Bye.
Nope. I mentioned off-topic and trolling because that's exactly what it is.
You don't get to call others a troll and give yourself a free pass, especially with what's in your signature (which isn't the place for that anyway).
