sigh. The number of folks falling for Gurman's hocus pocus here is really sad. The substantive reason this is 11 products is because Gurman is talking about
TWO YEARS. So any product that gets released every 12-14 months can easily be counted twice.
so take the 11 and divide by two. Get 5 products. Go to Main Mac marketing page.
https://www.apple.com/mac/
There are just 6 Macs. So on average one product is being skipped per year and the rest are getting the general Apple yearly speed bump.
It's funny how most of us silly humans just tend to launch words into the air or internet without actually looking at the math. I do it too. I'm trying to change that part about me. Sometimes I show improvement. And those are the times that I do some basic math. Thank you for bringing it back to the basics for us.
...This isn't even close to the Amelio era complexity.
It sure isn't. Thanks again.
Updated products now will have a major buzz kill with the recent price hikes. Not that exciting anymore.
Speak for yourself, kemo sabe!
Sometimes I’m happy that I’m perfectly satisfied with all of my Apple devices so I don’t have to think about which to get.
The most successful amongst us are those who can be content with what they have. It's a financial superpower, I do believe!
Am I the only one that dislikes the fact that Apple is slowly becoming a Dell or similar like corporation with 8698368394 models of computers and accessories?
That would be a brilliant observation...if it were true. Which it is not.
There are, at any moment in time, a half-dozen models of Apple computers, and as noted by Deconstruct60's prior posts, Apple will average five (that's "5" or "Cinco") at any one time over the next 2 years or so.
Is 5 too much for you? If so, I'll give you some great advice. Just like if you were drunk or seeing triple, always pick the "middle one". There you have it. Decision made.
Pick the middle one. That would be the base M6 later this year. There, I've just relieved you of the painful decision that had you all stressed out. Now go make some money because right now you don't have enough cash to buy that shiny bit of kit before it comes out...or even to pay the taxes on that purchase.
You're welcome.
I know, profit profit profit, and market share. I just hope quality won't go down.
If market share goes up, that's usually a sign that SOMETHING is being done right. Profit is not a bad word. And neither is "greed". Greed is actually good!
Acknowledgment to Gordon Gecko.
2 years is a long time. It makes sense that most Macs would be updated.
Of course it would make sense.
LG will update its washers and dryers in that time. Haier will update its ovens and microwaves, and will keep slapping the GE logo on them, and Whirlpool will keep updating its refrigerators and dishwashers. Tesla will make new models, as will Toyota, Honda, and Hyundai.
Just about the only thing that won't be better for the update is refrigerators. Nobody, absolutely nobody, makes a good refrigerator, and haven't for at least a decade...and maybe almost two decades.
Seems like a lot of MacBooks, gven the "shortages" -So it seems a tad short-sighted to be dumping RAM and storage into the most expensively disposable computer money can buy.
It's not short-sighted when you look at memory as a commodity. Which really is the only correct way to look at memory. It's a commodity. Like oil. Leather. Water, even.
Oil is used to make things, transport things, and to heat things. Water is used to water crops. Crops which were planted with the use of oil and will be harvested, transported, and packaged with the use of oil. Oil and water are intertwined commodities. It could be said that memory is ALSO intertwined with oil and water. Both of those are used in great quantities to make chips. And chips are used in great quantity to manage oil and water.
And finally, chips, like oil and water, are expensive to produce, refine, and purify, and all of those things are ... well, they are disposable. I have a room in my house with a big bowl of water. I poop in that bowl, and then I FLUSH the water out of that bowl, because well, that water is now used and is quite "disposable".
Commodities.
Not really newsworthy that time goes by and things get updated. Everything looks the same as before with incremental updates. How is this different from any other time for Apple since the beginning? Once in a while you get something different and new and it either takes off (Apple II, iMac, iPhone, iPad, Watch, etc.) or it doesn't (newton, pippin, cube, trashcan, vision, etc.) and some were huge but came and went (iPod). How many versions of Apple II and original Mac were there that looked the same? 42?
This may be the one time that 42 actually IS the answer, lol! But your observation is well made.
Apple silicon changed things though. I gave my sister and brother M1 computers when they first came out; they are non-tech people that used crap windows before and they still use the M1's and they work just as fast as my M4 products for general use. Maybe the new CEO will try to think different but the stock market doesn't like that.
I don't even need to upgrade to my planned M7 in a couple of years. I sure don't "need" the additional performance offered by the M7 chip. As with my last 4-5 iPhones and iPads, my upgrade will be done because of OTHER advancements, and not so much because of raw processing power.
And now despite what they tell you the company isn't controlled by individual stockholders anymore but by the huge funds who own most of the stock who are controlled by the same people that are also on the boards of all the biggest companies so it's not really going to ever change.
A lot of what you say is very watered-down. Here's why I say that:
8,100 funds currently hold AAPL stock. And that represents only 35% of the shares in the float.
Can you impact the price of something with just 35% of it? Eeeeehhhhh, sure; I guess so, but how much?
I think what's more important to note is that there were only 7,000 funds holding AAPL stock a year ago. And now that number is 14% higher than a year ago. It's that delta that we should pay attention to, because in one way, you could say that more shares are "locked up" in funds, which by nature trade slower (much slower) and hold stocks longer than many individual investors.
