1 million macs purchased by 1 million imaginary friends......by the way...where's big bird born and raised in sesame street?
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Apple Sells Record-Breaking 5.5 Million Macs in Q4 2014
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I agree, not to mention the masses will flock in no matter what they pump out.......at least for years or until the "coolness" factor changes elsewhere. They are profit driven enough (like any company) though that would notice it long before they burn through their vast amount of money.
If Jony would have just left the Mac Mini alone and continued with user upgrading and quad core haswell he would have sold a lot more than this tamperproof potentially warranty voiding box.
If it had not been for that very first iPhone, I would likely never have bought my first Mac.
The excitement of the iPhone and iPad have worn off over the last two years and I'll be keeping my 5S and iPad Mini Retina for yet another year.
My newest Mac that I bought recently is the 2012 Mac Mini I am extremely pleased with it's performance.-
This.
Although at the highest end of complexity of manufacturing, very few entities can gather the resources to compete in that space.
Sony was behaving 15 years ago exactly like Apple is today. They were king and rested on their kingly laurels. And they started abusing their users like Apple is abusing us lately. Finally people had enough of Sony and no one cares about them any more. Sony is still around though, and Sony is doing exceptional stuff again because they have to win people over with their actual products since all their fanbois left them long ago.
The latest Xperia line of phones is pretty darn amazing. The Xperia Z3 compact, if it had been released as the iPhone 6, would have blown minds left and right. As the market is now though, hardly anyone knows it exists.
If Sony could get their marketing act together, maybe they could shake things up and put more fear into Apple. I think they're a company to watch again. Will they pull it off? Probably not. But eventually, someone, somewhere, will. Google? I thought they were going to take over the cell phone market completely after they bought Motorola. Motorola makes some of the highest quality electronics the planet has ever known. I'm still shocked they sold them off again.
I'll be keeping my 6+ for two years. Just as I kept my iPhone 5 for two years, and before that the iPhone 4, and before that, the iPhone 3G. So I'm not impressed by anyone who announces they're holding on to the one-year-old iPhone they already have.
I am skipping the iPad Air 2, even though I've updated my iPad every year before this. I felt decadent upgrading last year to the Air when the iPad 3 was still useful. Now the old ones are starting to pile up, and I think I'll be going to a two-year cycle with the iPad also. Besides, I'm curious about the "iPad Pro", and don't mind waiting to see what if anything comes from those rumors.
The replay wouldn't be so good.
Mac, I'm a Mac, I'm so pretty
PC, I'm a PC, I keep getting faster every year
Mac, sometimes you gotta slow down and smell the roses, I run slower this year so my users have more time to relax
PC, I can learn new tricks, check out my expansion slots. I'm gonna be around for many years.
Mac, I don't like people touching my insides. I'm looking forward to early retirement next year. Look out smelly cheese and trash, here I come!!!
PC, I'm not ready for retirement, I will meet many families before they ever throw.... err... retire me to that green bin.
Mac, can I come live with you and pretend I'm an external hard drive?
PC, I'm sorry Mac, your hard drive is too slow
Only time will tell... I see Apple headed in full circle back to where they were in the late 80's and early 90's... A has been, former shell of itself struggling to hold onto any market share and leaking money faster than it comes in.
The path they're on is very similar to the one that led them to their destruction the first time.
I think it's more the press who seems to concentrate not on sales numbers, but on unit sales. The 5.5 million Macs are unit sales, and that's a nice number, probably getting Apple into the top 5. But successful companies will concentrate more on revenue, and Apple's Mac revenue is $6.6 billion. That means an average sale price of $1200, which means other company will likely have to sell twice as many units to get the same revenue.
And very successful companies concentrate on profit, and unfortunately for every other computer seller, Apple has that part of the market cornered completely.
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Sony had the huge problem that they had a unit selling movies and music, and that unit didn't want users to be able to access movies and music easily. Which means the electronics department wasn't allowed to build devices that people wanted.
Sony engineering could have produced a device that would have competed very well with the iPod at its height of popularity. They might have beaten it, maybe they wouldn't have, but they had a chance. But Sony engineering was never allowed to build anything but a crippled product.
Nobody is making money with that kind of product. Maybe that's why Apple doesn't even try.
Apple's share price has gone up in the past couple of days, but so has every other company's by about the same percentage. So was all this news received neutrally by investors?
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Same here. MBP + iPhone is like burger + fries here.
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My next computer, if I ever have one, WILL be a Hackintosh
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Same here. MBP + iPhone is like burger + fries here.
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My next computer, if I ever have one, WILL be a Hackintosh
Closed today at 102.47.
"1.5 weeks ago" was Oct 9 - closed at 101.02.
The highest in the past month was Sep 23 - closed at 102.64
The highest of the past 3 months was Sep 2 - closed at 103.30. (Which is also their all-time high.)
Define "not even close"... They are less than 1% under their all-time high - in the history of the company. It would take only a 0.81% rise to become the new record high stock price for Apple. And they rose 2.27% today.
I'm with you on Yosemite. The first time I saw it it took me back to all the annoying busyness of Windows many years ago. Microsoft just went to GUI and it was not pretty.
That's when we bought our first Mac. It was elegant, very easy on the eye. We've been a Mac household ever since. Two Windows portables have been a part of our gear over the years as some tasks still require Windows.
When I'm in the mall I always walk past the Microsoft Store. I'm not a shopper and only stop at places where I need to make a purchase. No desire to look at merchandise for no reason.
Next time I think I'll stop in at Microsoft. Not happy about it but it's time to take another look.
Love my MBA running ML!
I've noticed that too - there are more Macs on all the campuses I've been to than PCs, not just with students' own machines. I'm generally in the business department and their labs are 50/50 Mac and PC.
The Enterprise sector is where Macs are seeing the most growth.
With Cryptolocker 2.0 making the rounds, it makes sense!
It's not even close to where it was 1.5 weeks ago.
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Too bad they just came out with that crappy Mac mini. (Ordered an "old" one last night. i7 Quad-core baby!)
Agreed. Their transition to an appliance-only company is almost complete.
Between the new mini and Yosemite, I can see that me and Apple are headed straight towards a divorce.
I'm forced into a (somewhat) broken home now: Older Mac hardware running Mountain Lion, Android phones & tablets, Apple TV devices (soon to be replaced by other, more flexible offerings).
Goodbye all-Apple ecosystem. It was amazing while it lasted, but iOS 7, Yosemite, new Mac Pro, new Mac mini, AppleTV's new iOS 7-like interface, and soldered, non-upgradeable MBPs are deal-breakers for me.
I'll be waiting for Win X and see if their ecosystem integration executes as good as Microsoft says it will.
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BEST POST EVER.
The Apple I loved is dead. I'm just going through a mourning period and the 5 stages of grief.
They've (very cleverly) also turned them into status-symbols. While I personally see a decline in design, I believe people still buy them because they are "cool". However, there is a danger in going after the fickle "trendy" crowd.
Apple products used to be above and beyond anything else out there. Not anymore. Not even close.
I really, really hate Jony Ive's "Jobs-less" design sense. He's taken everything I loved about Apple and crucified it. And I mean EVERYTHING.
Apple has a lot of momentum Steve Jobs built. But Google and Microsoft are stepping up their game, big time. They've learned from Steve Jobs what made Apple successful.
And at least from my perspective, they're doing better work (software design-wise) than Apple is. I find Msoft's take on "flat" far, far more attractive than Apple's (I still like iOS more than any other so far). Google's Android and their ecosystem integration gets better and better every year.
It's starting to look like 1984 all over again. Apple may be in trouble, and doesn't even know it. It's made sure I don't buy another Apple product again from them--the secondhand market still has an older Mac Pro with my name on it
But they won't see a dime out of that sale. I'm sure there are others that think like me. I swear, it's like they wanted to wipe the slate clean of everything Steve Jobs had his design yay/nay hands on. Maybe they should have ignored his advice and thought long and hard about "what would SJ do."
The MacBook Air and Pro are great laptops. iMacs and Mac Pros are crap for the money they cost. Maybe it'd be better off if Apple focused on mobile devices. Their desktop computers have not been anything special in a long time.
On the other hand, Lenovo desktop and laptop computers have had something _really_ special! They come delivered with a built-in man-in-the-middle attack, which allowed one very dubious advertising company to read all your encrypted web traffic, and since it has been hacked now, any hacker can connect you to fake websites without you noticing if you use a Lenovo computer.
And of course the only desktop computer with a 5K display, selling for about the same price as a Dell 5K display on its own, that's nothing special
Or maybe it would look something like this:
PC: Hey Mac, I heard you sold a record number last quarter!
Mac: Yup, turns out the slump in PC sales only applies to Windows PC's.
PC: I wonder why that is...
Mac: It might have something to do with the fact that I run better, reliable, and logical operating system. Seriously, who makes an OS that's designed around touch for a non-touch PC? Or it could be that when you call me for tech support, you get an AMERICAN. Hmmm... maybe it has something to do with the FREE Genius bar help you can get with a REAL person in every major city. It could also have something to do with the fact that my components aren't likely to fail in the first 3 years, unlike you PC. Oh - another plus... the majority of my chasis is metal instead of cheap plastic. Also, I have a higher resale value, a sexier design, and I can RUN WINDOWS.
Seriously - the best Windows PC money can buy is a Mac running Windows 7 in bootcamp. Period. It's really sad when a computer designed around another OS runs its competitor's OS better than any of the competitor's offerings.
If the largest, most profitable software company in human history still hasn't figured out how to have an "ecosystem" by now, it isn't ever going to happen.
Mark my words: Microsoft will never have an ecosystem comparable in any form or fashion to Google, Apple or even Amazon.
Microsoft screwed the pooch years ago when it didn't take Google or Apple seriously and insisted on OEMs paying for it's junk mobile OS that to this day has a 3% global marketshare.
Microsoft is done. Put a fork in it already. Just like HP & IBM its entire business will eventually be relegated to Enterprise.