This is a disaster! I dont even care if I would get it in February if I just can order it and deduct it on this years account budget. If they delay it over new year apple has really become useless with their promises. And now they don't even sell a proper desktop anymore. Pro is beyond outdated and I can't buy the current iMac, what is this??
This really frustrates me
the problem isn't even delaying it but announcing it..if they wouldn't be able to launch it on time why announce the whole thing in the first place?
But isn't this whole issue the COO part anyway? The vision part is already over with. Jony has already designed the next generation iMac. It's now the deployment of the product, supply and demand, and the supply chain as you mentioned. All three things in which Cook supposedly excels in.
Well boys, I' fed up waiting and with this situation, tomorrow I'm gonna buy a Win8PC (800) , this will be good for my health, this is SiCk!
Does this mean we are consigned to buy only Macbooks from Apple now? Apple knows this and is trying to get everybody to buy high margin mobile products.
BINGO - I have done a couple of threads that Cook is "Cooked" - failing and not performing - squandering the innovation trajectory Steve entrusted to him.
This OCD issue with thinness is enough already.
Time relied on one of Apple's major competitors (SAMSUNG) to provide screens and chips - too little and way late to start pushing for other suppliers. Apple stock is being beat to hell as pundits keep looking at the missteps under Cook's leadership (?).
All of Apple leadership needs to put down the KoolAid pitcher and start executing better.
BTW - someone needs to keep Ives in check on designs that can't be manufactured reliably (iPhone 5 / friction stir welding on iMacs, whatever). Not sure where Bob Mansfield's role comes into play.
I'm waiting patiently in any case, but I caution people to avoid jumping to every possible doom & gloom conclusion.
Guys, there's a reason why you should let MacRumors filter the stories for you. If you jump all over every fool thing someone posts on the internet, you're going to get yourself tied in knots.
Here's what I see in this story:
- A "commercial source", which to me sounds like a 3rd party retailer and therefore not the most reliable source, thinks there might be a delay
- The French blog speculates that because a delay is claimed to exist and the announced dates were November and December, it's possible that the new date sends us past the holidays
- AppleInsider then jumps into the worst case and posts the sensationalized 2013 headline
I find it far more likely that either the retailer themselves are speculating, or that they were originally expecting Nov 13 and now it's Nov 27.
I'm waiting patiently in any case, but I caution people to avoid jumping to every possible doom & gloom conclusion.
If it's true they could have released a model with the same appearance with new proccesor and 1Tb+8Gb for the same price that the old and everybody would be happy, but no they want to release the skinny one with adamantium and unicorn tears for one month of (maybe) 2013... stupid decision