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Apple Hints at a 'Product Transition' and a New Product Soon?
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Hopefully they'll actually make their laptops price-competitive, instead of as overpriced as they are, compared to their Windows counterparts. Then there would be no excuse for someone not to buy a Mac. Especially the Macbook Pro. It's way overpriced right now.
Anyway, looking forward to the future!
Anyway, looking forward to the future!
Possibly. Hopefully..... look at this:
http://www.macnn.com/blogs/2008/07/10/apple-patents-point-to-future-imac-touch-display.html
This could be something also:
http://www.macnn.com/blogs/2008/07/14/apple-reveals-secret-notebook-tablet.html
I'm not so sure about touchscreen Macs. Touch-trackpad and touch-mouse, I can see, but not touchscreen. At least not for now. I think Mac OS X will need to have a UI change for touchscreen, and that hasn't happened with Snow Leopard.
At least make the MacBook Pro look similar to this (thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/523933/):
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In July of last year, Apple mentioned a "product transtition".
But I don't remember anything earthshaking happening...
But I don't remember anything earthshaking happening...
Apple Event soon with redesigned MacBooks and MacBook Pros, plus the new Apple mini-tablet. All three products have tapered aluminum cases.
Called it first.
Called it first.
What makes you think that? Snow Leopard is not final yet so why do you assume that it won't have touchscreen support when it's final?
Apple could add it to Snow Leopard.
A PDA bigger than the iPhone/iPod touch probably wouldn't sell unless it's really good... I use my iPod touch for pretty much everything. It's a little slow online but it works perfect.
Very good point.
What did happen? Nothing big. The iPhone was already released. We just got the MBA and a few updates along the way to the computer lineup.
Other companies have touch products, touch screens, and tablets in computers/laptops.
Apple will NOT be first to market with this technology - they will just do it best! I hope they get on this sooner, rather than later!
Microsoft has this great lookin product but the will not get it right.
Microsoft Touch Screen
A cool (looking) on is that Multi-Touch Wall on CNN
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If the product transition is just an update to the MBP why would that cause a hit to Apple's profit? You'd think the newer updated MBP would boost profits as everyone rushes out to buy the new notebook. Maybe they plan to run the old MBPs out to zero inventory and there will be some weeks when Apple has not notebooks for sale? But so what people will just wait, no sales actually lost.
Maybe Apple sells newly released products at a break even or loss at first them holds the price constant as their manufacturing costs drop so new products do not generate the same margins as older products?
Maybe Apple sells newly released products at a break even or loss at first them holds the price constant as their manufacturing costs drop so new products do not generate the same margins as older products?
But that's a relatively modest product tweak, and wouldn't hurt margins.
It will probably happen sooner or later, but it's not this "product transition" being referred to.
I'm thinking probably some sort of tablet or other subportable, although I'd most like to see a midtower.
Product Transition Affecting Revenues
I would guess that Apple will be "transitioning" all of their software products to Intel-only, starting in Q4. They've already announced that the next version of OSX will abandon PPC, so I would expect that iLife, iWork and the Pro-tools suites will all go Intel-only with the next upgrade.
This would affect revenues negatively due to the smaller potential pool of buyers for these products, but it would aid Apple in the long run as they are able to add new revenue-generating features to the products, and lower development/service costs of having a single platform to support.
I would guess that Apple will be "transitioning" all of their software products to Intel-only, starting in Q4. They've already announced that the next version of OSX will abandon PPC, so I would expect that iLife, iWork and the Pro-tools suites will all go Intel-only with the next upgrade.
This would affect revenues negatively due to the smaller potential pool of buyers for these products, but it would aid Apple in the long run as they are able to add new revenue-generating features to the products, and lower development/service costs of having a single platform to support.
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We get the same rhetoric after all of these Q&A sessions.... nothing much happens really.