Three years? LOL. Microsoft offering paid support for Windows 7 until 2023 kinda contradicts your statement there. You are probably only looking at specific use case, like laptops for the executives.
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Mac Shipments Down in Q3 2019 Amid Overall Worldwide PC Market Growth
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Give it time. The keyboard often starts to malfunction after a few months, if a piece of dirt gets in the wrong place under the keyboard. Might not happen if you're lucky.
Enterprises do not like Macs. What's so fascinating about it? BTW what's happened to IBM and their claims about the benefits of Macs? What about all Google engineers using Macs? How about all iOS app developers having to use Macs? I am sure there are quite a few of those employed by enterprises.
One happy Apple Customer with my Refurbished MM(2018);3.0GHZ,8GB Ram,256SSD which I bought from the Apple On-line Store last June.
And, according to the article, for each happy Apple customer (Mac user) there 10 happy PC customers.
Your conclusion is based off of your emotional attachment to what you think are failures by Apple.
Apple is moving generally the same amount of units. If people really did not purchase Apple for the reasons you mentioned, we'd be seeing a downward trend line over an extended period of time, not Apple maintaining their current ranking and general sales numbers.
Just swap capslock and escape in the preferences. Puts escape in a much better position, and gets rid of the useless capslock.
According to the article, people keep buying PCs. They must be happy otherwise why would they do it?
I don’t think Apple wonders anything. The Mac has been a very stable product line. With price increases, this kind of performance (which is a guess) is probably in line with their own internal expectations.
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Because they are cheap and computers are useful, even if it’s not the optimal or most wanted make/model.
Same reason Android has high market share. Cheap phones.
Mac is a neglected lineups in Apple's world. New features are always available on iOS first, despite a Mac computer being much more expensive than average iOS devices.
It's like macOS is a bad, afterthought clone of iOS. Mac AppStore is a barren desert, and the new iTunes forked apps are simply horrible. And Apple asking $1500 for its base configuration? Add more RAM and storage, you touch $4k easy when those components are cheap commodities in PC world.
With the huge, blank spaces on the upper frame, Apple could've upgraded all Macs with FaceID, while also improving the camera quality. They didn't. iMac stays with crappy iSight camera and Macbook is no different.
The keyboard is also another nail on the coffin. You'd expect $2K laptop to have a decent, reliable keyboard. It's thin for sure. But I never see no one survive with its original butterfly keys within the first 2 years, unless you always bring external keyboard. LOL
It's like macOS is a bad, afterthought clone of iOS. Mac AppStore is a barren desert, and the new iTunes forked apps are simply horrible. And Apple asking $1500 for its base configuration? Add more RAM and storage, you touch $4k easy when those components are cheap commodities in PC world.
With the huge, blank spaces on the upper frame, Apple could've upgraded all Macs with FaceID, while also improving the camera quality. They didn't. iMac stays with crappy iSight camera and Macbook is no different.
The keyboard is also another nail on the coffin. You'd expect $2K laptop to have a decent, reliable keyboard. It's thin for sure. But I never see no one survive with its original butterfly keys within the first 2 years, unless you always bring external keyboard. LOL
You misunderstand. We’re a bunch of frustrated Apple-LOVING people.
No single product is going to make everyone happy and no company makes the greatest products every single time. But lately Macs have offered little in terms of functional improvements, and in fact have acquired many reductions in functionality, have had some straight-up bad design choices and all the while steadily get more expensive. I will pay more for a better product, especially if it’s something I interact directly with every day, But I refuse to pay more for an inferior product.
Meanwhile, at Apple:
"Tim, no one wants to buy Macs anymore!"
"Increase the prices! Decrease quality!"
"Tim we can't possibly make these computers any worse, they already -"
"Put a new chip inside whose sole purpose is to crash randomly!"
"Oh wow we hadn't thought of that..."
"Tim, no one wants to buy Macs anymore!"
"Increase the prices! Decrease quality!"
"Tim we can't possibly make these computers any worse, they already -"
"Put a new chip inside whose sole purpose is to crash randomly!"
"Oh wow we hadn't thought of that..."
And call it the Terminator 2000 chip, or T2 in short.
I went back to windows and I don't regret it. Windows 10 today is nothing like the old days. I don't have random crashes, or slowdowns. I have access to tons of games and software that are super optimized, and things just work. Plus I can buy a machine with good quality, great keyboard, and reasonable price.
Mac sales need to burn until they give us reliable, repairable, reasonably priced machines. I don’t need cheap but it’s become ridiculous.
Market has spoken, Tim get the f out!
No one wants your dongles, no one wants crappy key boards, no one wants to pay an extra 500 for a useless Touch Bar, and no one wants ultra slow MacBook airs.
Also, new instore displays and emojis won’t make me upgrade to your crappy hardware.
Shareholders should be mad, Apple revenue could be so much higher with someone else in charge!
No one wants your dongles, no one wants crappy key boards, no one wants to pay an extra 500 for a useless Touch Bar, and no one wants ultra slow MacBook airs.
Also, new instore displays and emojis won’t make me upgrade to your crappy hardware.
Shareholders should be mad, Apple revenue could be so much higher with someone else in charge!
