not surprising, the longevity/performance you get in a $999 air is great value.
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Apple's Mac Revenue Up 70% in Q2 2021, iPad Revenue Up Almost 79%
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It's more like it attracts one person to buy both of them. But yeah, if it happens, it won't be soon.
For the love of god no. The rigid frame of a proper laptop is a large part of what makes mobile work possible. Those awful flimsy foreskin keyboards provide no support or foundation and are infuriatingly unresponsive by comparison. Not to mention the clumsy hinges. Then there is the awful thickness that comes with a touchscreen that bloats and weighs it down. Which is particularly annoying considering that the elevation portion of the laptop (screen) then outweighs the bottom (flimsy keyboard). All for what in the end?
I’m not a fan of the iPad (not despairing those that are), but laptops should stay as laptops.
I believe the division exists between laptops and tablets for good reason.
"The last three quarters have been the best ever in the history of the Mac."
Apple CFO Luca Maestri
Apple CFO Luca Maestri
No matter what Apple achieves the armchair CEOs that infest tech blogs will grumble that it’s wrong. They were hoping the Surface would kill off the Mac or force it to go touchscreen but, as usual, it didn’t happen.
Go buy a Surface and let your hatred of Apple go.
Well, despite your use of asterisks, whatever that means, I disagree totally. Look back at the Mac (and external display) update history at the height of this marketing message. I believe Cook saw the future of Apple being iOS, iPads and iPhones, which is quite understandable for a bean counter. Macs and OS were, I suspect, increasingly a distracting inconvenience for him. Then we had the "Mac is in our DNA message" as he finally realised it would damage the brand to turn his back on the heritage, as well as being a boost for the "lifestyle company" critics.
It’s almost as though consumers don’t care about a feature they don’t need.
Cancelling my Apple TV+ after the free one year. Not much decent content compared to Netflix aside from Tehran. And, offloading my MBA M1 now that I know it's just all fake hype.
Shoulda been $1099 at the low end. Instead, they kept around a low end intel model with a 7th (!) gen chip to hit that price point. $1299 for a desktop with 8/256 and 2 ports is more than a tad too expensive IMO. $699 for a mini with the same processor, RAM, and storage, plus Ethernet, HDMI, and usb-A is way more appealing.
On my iPhone (iOS 14.5) you have to select each message first in Unread folder, on yours you can select all automatically? Nice! What version are you on?
I’d agree about mini if apple hadn’t bungled something as simple as how to wake a display.I been waiting for Apple to be more aggressive with Mac solutions then past years. The early M1 laptops, and Mac mini have shown an impressive new direction to take for marketplace success, and this is only the beginning.
It will likely never happen regardless unless Apple hybridizes macOS and iPadOS in which case I feel there would be too many compromises but I could be wrong. I’m very curious to see what happens with iPadOS 15 in light of the recent upgraded iPad Pro.
Yep. I teach at a university and I used to be the only one with this setup at our department for years. Got the original 12.9 iPad pro in 2015. iPad+pencil really changed my workflow.
I would show it to people, they would nod and say it's cool but that was it, hardly anyone had iPads (or any tablets) at work.
The pandemic really pushed people to change. Now just about every faculty member has a tablet with a stylus (mostly ipads) for delivering online lectures. I got a new one in December too after my old one started restarting randomly. Not great when this happens during a lecture.
every tech company is prospering incredibly this year
Gartner estimates that Lenovo Group (ticker: 992.Hong Kong) remained the market-share leader globally, with 25.1% of the market, and 42.3% unit growth from a year ago. HP Inc. (HPQ) had 21.4% of the market, with 34.6% unit growth, while Dell Technologies (DELL) had 16.5% market share and 12.9% unit growth. Gartner says that Apple (AAPL) had 8% market share in the quarter, with units up a gaudy 48.6%.
'wonder how linux did?
Gartner estimates that Lenovo Group (ticker: 992.Hong Kong) remained the market-share leader globally, with 25.1% of the market, and 42.3% unit growth from a year ago. HP Inc. (HPQ) had 21.4% of the market, with 34.6% unit growth, while Dell Technologies (DELL) had 16.5% market share and 12.9% unit growth. Gartner says that Apple (AAPL) had 8% market share in the quarter, with units up a gaudy 48.6%.
'wonder how linux did?
Linux is an operating system, not a tech company, but the answer is very very well. Linux is, well, everywhere.
the $999.00 macbook air from 2010 late, is still happily chugging along in 2021!
I'm so glad to see the some focus being brought back to the mac.
In recent years it was mostly all about iPhones, iWatches and iPads.
In recent years it was mostly all about iPhones, iWatches and iPads.
OH, one of those would have been me
It’s been a few good quarters for the Mac, to be sure. But, if you want to have an idea about Apple’s desire to GROW the Mac, look at the quantity of Mac ads being produced. As far as Apple’s concerned, as long as they can continue to sell 20+ million with zero advertising, then they’ll keep selling them. They’ll reduce the costs to produce them (by repurposing components from their top selling lines which also allows them to use fewer resources to produce them), but they’ll keep selling them. After this bump, it’ll be interesting to see what the sales look like in another 4 quarters.The same could be said about Steve ”milk the Macintosh for all it’s worth – and get busy on the next great thing” Jobs.
Is select all-> mark -> mark as read too complicated for you? Takes like for presses.