"Loop you in". Perhaps it refers to some sort of new email/messaging client or social networking app?
Or a Vine-style video loop player?
Or a Vine-style video loop player?
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Apple Sends Invites for 'Let Us Loop You In' Media Event on March 21
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And the lineup just keeps getting more and more bloated each year. Welcome back to the 90s!
Considering how much something like "keep me in the loop" comes up in everyday discussions in the tech industry (at the very least around the Silicon Valley), that was the first and really the only thing (perhaps aside from the potential other connection of Apple's current campus being located on Infinite Loop) that came to my mind when I saw the invitation.
Or is it becoming diversified? Name two Apple products that fill the same niche without being different enough to justify their existence! Let's say you have an iPhone 6 or 6+, could you live with it, if only the other size existed? Or the other color, the one you didn't pick? If not the lineup is not bloated.
Oh they are very different, even if not so noticeable from the outside. However the expectation is that the 12-inch MacBook will eventually replace both the 11 and 13-inch MacBook Airs. For now they cover different price and performance points and are therefore justified offerings.
Hideous naming scheme, not real Apple products in my book. But I agree, one of them should go.
It's the same product just an older version of it, to hit a lower price point. No additional engineering was done to keep selling the Mini 2 as it is. Customers most likely know why they didn't bought it two years ago and won't have a hard time to decide whether it's worth the $100 savings. Schools and corporations might find the older cheaper iPad very appealing, because they don't care how bad the screen looks.
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Maybe these watch bands are exciting... isn't there some data port for the bands? I don't have an Apple Watch, but it would be cook if Apple comes out with some smart band or battery band of some kind.
How are the MacBook and Air different? Once you account for ram they are the same price. Once you account for screen size they have nearly the same ppi. What you are left with is one device that doesn't have MagSafe or spare ports and another that heavier.
As far as the iPad goes, selling an old model alongside the new one is clutter. They cover the same niche which is either "low cost iPad" or "pocket-able iPad". I almost included the outdated Mac Pro and Mac mini, but with them there exists a functional difference in price. The iPad mini 2 and 4 are nearly the exact same cost. Justification through scaling doesn't support your case because you could just as easily offset revenue lost through volume discounts by not supporting multiple platforms. That's really what their difference is: a new processor that restricts developers who have to code with the expectation that people with devices two generations behind may have purchased a new device.
Most of the time until a year or two back. They would just make a video of it available at some point after the fact.
Please read the comprehensive AnandTech Review to get an understanding of the new 4.5W TDP Core-M CPU and what it means for Apples first fan-less laptop.
Really? And what's the downside of it?
Not in production cost and not in resale price.
Why giving discounts on brand new hardware when you can keep producing the old one for cheaper and uphold your profit margin even at a lower price point?
Just assume people who buy a two year old device know what they're getting and don't care about the newest most demanding games (I mean) apps.
Can you list prod costs of the ipad lineup? Or give link to it?
If you are looking bill-of-parts in the start and the end of manufacturing, you know that Apple does not pay the industry's price level of that day. We are all just guessing...
We are all just knowing that a two year old device for which the factories already exist has lower production costs than a new one. How much lower and how much exactly is a corporate secret.
Guys the 4 colours also might be the colours of the new Macbook Pros
Prod costs might be exactly the same. Price of assembly line can be diveded evenly through it's lifetime and parts could have been bought beforehand in a bulk.
What usually does change is retail price. It's about demand and supply. But it doesn't have to affect the prod costs. It depends how you pay for production line and the parts.
I guess Apple knows better than average product maker, when and how much it will produce certain product. Eg. I don't think that Apple makes more and more Airport Expresses all the time because they are surprisingly much demanded, but they keep selling the old model because they still have a lot in their inventory.
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And that growth was caused by what? Tim Cook? lol
It was caused by iPhone & iPad: Steve's babies.
Meanwhile, in their two years of existance,
how much has "Beats" & AppleWatch, Tim Cook's babies, generated ...?
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Announcing end of life for the Apple Watch?
It's a possibility. If they're not making enough money, Cook may want to concentrate their resources on more profitable endeavours.
I really don't understand how people can use the iPad Pro as a laptop replacement. I honestly tried using mine as one but there were just so many compromises to be made. I still like mine but as a content consumption device, however and ironically I bought the one product that everyone said wasn't good for productivity, a Pixel C, and it turned out to be an absolutely fantastic productivity machine. Until Apple fixes iOS the iPad Pro will definitely be my last iOS device. I'm sure it's great for a lot of you but there are just to many features missing that I simply cannot live without and iOS has many.
Yup, I'm totally with you. I always preferred the black glass surrounding the LCD screen, and was always surprised how the MacBook Air didn't go in that direction.