Agreed, Apple needs to drop back the 2020 IPP price down to $650 if not the market share won't be improving at all.
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Mac Shipments Estimated to Be Down Over 20% While Demand Surges in Q1 2020
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Agreed, Apple needs to drop back the 2020 IPP price down to $650 if not the market share won't be improving at all.
Are we forgetting that Apple has an entire lineup of iPads catering to a variety of price points? If you can’t afford the top-of-the-line iPad Pro, there’s the more affordable iPad Air or even the entry level ipad. This in turn frees Apple to give the iPad Pro all the bells and whistles for users willing to pay a premium for the best ipad experience Apple has to offer.
“If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.” ― Steve Jobs
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They jacked up the price from £565 for the 12.9 inch here in the UK right up to £800-£1000. The recent non update should have come with a price cut and the same with the Mac Mini.
Anybody figures that Macs will get cheaper with the move to ARM can dream on. It will only tighten the noose on profits.
Meanwhile, awaiting meaningful updates to the iMac, Mac Mini, iMac Pro, iPad.
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They jacked up the price from £565 for the 12.9 inch here in the UK right up to £800-£1000. The recent non update should have come with a price cut and the same with the Mac Mini.
Anybody figures that Macs will get cheaper with the move to ARM can dream on. It will only tighten the noose on profits.
Meanwhile, awaiting meaningful updates to the iMac, Mac Mini, iMac Pro, iPad.
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Price of the desktop? Quite a bit. Probably about £2k all in, but still substantially less than the equivalent Mac would've cost me. As far as laptops go, we'll have to see. Depends on what I end up with really.
And how can I put it, Catalina in and of itself wasn't the problem, but it really does reflect the badly declining quality of Apple's desktop operating systems. I genuinely want to love them, but honestly, the quality just isn't there anymore, and Windows 10 has been seriously solid.
Agreed, but the mac sales are getting worse and quite possibly selling below 2,000,000 units by Q2 2020.
We’ll know Q2 Apple revenue in a couple weeks, but Apple doesn’t disclose units sold.
Depending on the worldwide recession/depression, Q3 may be even worse than Q2; it’s impossible to know yet though.
Absolutely agreed, the lack of redesign on iMac will exacerbate the sales of mac and that's just unacceptable.
Apple keeps designs around until there’s a reason to change them. They don’t just change for the sake of change.
It seems Apple doesn’t equate new design with higher sales. You might think you know better, but Apple disagrees.
It's probably in the next few weeks but 14” models needs to be priced reasonably and adopt M.2 form factor for repairability.
Prosser says May, who knows 🤷♂️
But there won’t be price decreases, though the base SSD will very likely increase from 128GB to 256GB (presuming they keep the two TB3 model). So effectively, a $200 price cut at every SSD capacity.
And of course, there will be no M.2 drive, that ship sailed many years ago. Apple uses their T2 for a disk controller, and that is 100% incompatible with M.2.
The reduction in Q1 2020 mac sales is significant and likely the most dramatic drop in recent years.
iPads don’t have enough RAM for an effective port of Xcode that could replace the Mac.
What is the allure of Xcode on the ipad even? I doubt Apple would even bother releasing an ipad with 16gb of ram just to cater to this niche use case.
I’m not sure - it’s frequently bought up though, isn’t it!
iOS and iPad both are not in a state where using xcode would be as good User Experience as using a Mac.
Well I'm sure in these moronic times, there could be plenty of ipad users who would even force themselves to use it just to claim it "replaced" their computers. Create happy wannabes, Apple is brilliant at it.
Very well said. I'm already at the point where, after a decade of using iPhones, I know for sure my next phone will be an Android (unless Apple do actually bring back the jack, but I can't see it happening). I've been struggling with working out what to do when my 2015 MBP dies, as the quality, disadvantages, and cost, of new MBPs, even with the new 16", makes me shudder, and I've been toying with the idea of actually, god forbid, switching to Windows. Your list of points has actually made me realise this could be a viable reality!