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Apple Sold Fewest Macs in Any Quarter Since 2010 as Nearly Entire Lineup Was Outdated
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Funny thing... I just saw this thread in the Macrumors forum.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/nearly-the-entire-apple-product-line-is-outdated.2044541/
No many things have changed and that was over a year and 3 months ago!!
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/nearly-the-entire-apple-product-line-is-outdated.2044541/
No many things have changed and that was over a year and 3 months ago!!
Didn't you say you had work to do (even if it was on Windows)?
Regardless Mac Mini and Mac Pro users aren't asking for a completely redesigned computer. What they're asking for is updates to the existing designs (current Mac Mini and former classic Mac Pro). That seems completely reasonable to me.
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Note he said:
Tim Cook is the worst thing to happen to Mac since Mac.
And not
Tim Cook is the worst thing to happen to Apple since Mac.
Since you are an IT Pro, I'm sure you are aware there are simple replacement cables for USB equipment that has replaceable cables, and $2 (or less) PASSIVE adapters (at least you didn't call them "Dongles"!) that can easily clip onto the stuff with captive USB cables (which is also likely the same equipment that will be REPLACED before that USB-C/TB3 Mac is replaced).
And it's not like you have to constantly deal with cable-changes nor adapters. You do it once, and it's DONE. I have never been in an office where people SHARED USB peripherals around on a day-to-day basis.
In short: You are WAY overblowing a "problem" that 10 minutes on Amazon will solve. MUST I provide links?
It all started with the trashcan. Apple has lost it. (Computer that is, toys and phones are top notch!)
I'd be willing to wager that inside three years Apple will say adios to Intel
I would tend to agree; followed/preceded quickly by a low-end (non-Pro) MacBook or Air.
I think they will eventually divide the Mac Product line into "consumer" machines that will be ARM-based, and "Pro" machines that will remain Intel-based (at least for now). Because of Apple's spectacular and proven abilities to switch CPU platforms without a hitch, I doubt that anyone will notice any difference.
....well let's see here....we have a lineup of MacBook Pro's with keyboards that have the feel of one of those $1.99 keyboards you can get at a computer warehouse, the memory can't be upgraded, oh, and by the way, the SSD is soldered into the logic board on all but the cheapest, so when the write cycles of the SSD become used up you have a dead system that's nothing more than basically have a Jony Ive, ultra thin, stylish piece of metal (and probably yet another class action lawsuit in the making). And lets not forget the well loved "idiot bar" ....errrrr I mean "touch bar".To top that off, add a price that's more suitable for a downpayment on a car than a laptop computer.
...now lets look at the Mac Pro (also known as the "Fire Hydrant" or "Trash Can", to name a few). Once again...Jony Ive and style take over instead of functionality. What do we have? Essentially a computer that, instead of costing the equivalent of a downpayment for a car it can actually cost as much as a car, a barren lack of upgradability and for a system that used to be fully configurable now replaced with hardwired, outdated thunderbolt ports. What could possibly go wrong?
Both the Mac Mini and the iMac also suffer from the same short comings. Lack of configurability, lack of serviceability, and high costs for what you're really getting. Now top all of that off with operating systems that are so neglected and buggy that many are now calling "macOS" by it's more appropriate name, "crapOS".
Naaaahhhh....I can't see why they're not selling more.
...now lets look at the Mac Pro (also known as the "Fire Hydrant" or "Trash Can", to name a few). Once again...Jony Ive and style take over instead of functionality. What do we have? Essentially a computer that, instead of costing the equivalent of a downpayment for a car it can actually cost as much as a car, a barren lack of upgradability and for a system that used to be fully configurable now replaced with hardwired, outdated thunderbolt ports. What could possibly go wrong?
Both the Mac Mini and the iMac also suffer from the same short comings. Lack of configurability, lack of serviceability, and high costs for what you're really getting. Now top all of that off with operating systems that are so neglected and buggy that many are now calling "macOS" by it's more appropriate name, "crapOS".
Naaaahhhh....I can't see why they're not selling more.
PC sales overall have risen in the last Quarter, your chart ends at 2016, this article is about Mac sales for the last Quarter, so they sold less Macs in the last Quarter while overall PC market increased sales over same time period. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/13/q2_2018_pc_shipments_rose/Very misleading headline ignores PC sales trends as a whole.
As we see here, computer sales are on a downward trend as a whole across the entire industry. Everyone is at their lowest sales level in years. Not just Apple. Dell, HP, everyone.
For a "consumer" machine, I think it is fine. But I do hope Apple reverses that trend with "Pro" machines.
Yeah. They probably think " hey! we already make the greatest computers in the world and no one wants them! Oh well, lets see how big and thin we can make our phones."
Sadly the rich aren't stupid enough to buy outdated old macs either. They already switched to new updated PC's like most others. Mac owners remind me of myself and others as the last holdouts of windows phones. Bwahahahah
Now that you're finished with your work will you now expand upon what you mean by "untrusted, unworthy, INCORRECT" user?
If you TRULY use it for work, you should be able to expense it off on your Taxes. Problem solved!
THey have the ipad. Add a bt keyboard and you have the same concept. A non-computer computer where the customer are the merchandise.Apple needs a product to compete with a Chrome Book. Never gonna happen though.
Why do you assume content creators would want to use an A series chip? You think the work YOU do is the most demanding on processors?
Imho I think the 2013 MBA is the best laptop Apple's made. Right size, all the ports I need and powerful enough to get the job done. Now if Apple made the new MBP with a couple more usb ports and went back to the old keyboard style I'd buy one in a heartbeat but alas I think my '13 MBA will be my last one for a very long time
Wait! You forgot your one-button mouse meme!
Sheesh! The LISA had a Trashcan. Way to hold a GRUDGE!!! ;-)
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I'd say 5, and it might not ever on its Pro models.
I didn't expect you would:
Now that you're finished with your work will you now expand upon what you mean by "untrusted, unworthy, INCORRECT" user?
No it hasn’t. The latest MBPs are outstanding laptops, as is the iMac Pro desktop.
Apple designs products for its target markets, rather than the relatively tiny handful of people hanging out in tech forums.
Remember the Power PC? Motorola and IBM chips? Those two companies couldn't keep up with Intel. We went with Intel, and reaped huge benefits. Nowadays? Intel is stuck. That is the main reason for the pause in renewed Macs. When Intel gets down to 10 nanometer, and their chips don't fry eggs, there will be a new explosion of desktop and laptop. Or will Apple step in and somehow make a super-speed ARM chip? Stay tuned.
If you use Windows, then no "examples" are necessary.
If you don't, then just keep avoiding Windows and you'll be fine...
Apple has some of the best engineers and designers in the world... but for some reason they can’t innovate without a new CPU? Nonsense. PCs are innovating. Just not the Macs.
They don't really "update" anything, that's why.
Other companies don't use a solid block of aluminum for their laptop cases. Duh.