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Mac Shipments Rise Significantly in Q4 2020 Amid Overall PC Market Growth
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Growth due to the pandemic where a lot of people finding a need for a new computer for working from home.
In my country, smartphone and tablets sales are picking up as well for those who cannot afford a laptop and/or don't have landline internet (thus relying on cellular) for working/schooling at home.
IMO Apple's numbers would've been greater if the M1 Macs were made available sooner and into more markets.
In my country, smartphone and tablets sales are picking up as well for those who cannot afford a laptop and/or don't have landline internet (thus relying on cellular) for working/schooling at home.
IMO Apple's numbers would've been greater if the M1 Macs were made available sooner and into more markets.
Agreed on the usability, portability, etc... when I finish working or during the weekends I almost never touch an iMac or a MBP that I use.
I just get on an iPad Pro and do the rest of the afternoon or weekend time with it from any corner of the house. With the smart folio keyboard and pencil it beats anything in form factor, compared to the desktop connected to a Wacom tablet (which also have horrendous drivers), keyboard, mouse, etc... this just feel too clumsy.
Yes, can’t really do full professional work... but for consuming, learning and practicing tutorials, sketching, short email replies, etc it’s the best
Sure, if you want to spend money on both devices and deal with both of them. If someone wants to use only an iPad, it becomes a silly game of working around all the limitations instead of just buying a laptop to begin with.
The Surface "tablets" have already proven that both can exist in one, and it works fine. Those keep winning the tablet comparisons because they're actually just laptops with touch screens. Since M1 Macs run iOS apps now, maybe Apple will go that route. Until then, anyone still can use a MacBook as a reader or cookbook, I don't see why not. Stands up on its own too.
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Tablet sales already outnumbers laptops and it makes sense. That’s more direct competition than tablet’s to desktop computers.
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You lack imagination, my friend. The answer is right there in your statement.
Then again, there's tablets, and there's iPads. Not the same thing. The iPad is unique in the market.
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That is only if you want or need a laptop and try to use an iPad to replace it.
For my wife and daughter, the reverse is true: A laptop introduces a level of complexity and limitations that the iPad does not, starting with the form factor.
An iPad is a device optimized for touch interaction unlike ANY laptop (or Tablet) out there.
Exactly which computer product that Apple sells today is not designed or heavily influenced by Jony Ive - none. Do not make the mistake to think that the few complainers at Macforum has any impact on sales statistics.
The reason is likely that 1) pandemics and people need to work from home (on Jony Ive designed computers) and 2) M1 to a lesser degree as only the nerds can really understand the difference when using the computer.
There can’t be a “tablet comparison” with the Surface, because it’s not a tablet. At least not as the modern concept of tablet, it’s an evolution of the old “Tablet PC”. It has a PC chip, and a PC OS, and a PC interface, and a PC size, and PC ports. Many people like it, but its competitor is the MacBook, not the iPad. We’re talking about two different products: one can do things the other one does (increasingly in one case), but that doesn’t make them the same device, as my iPhone is not a TV because it can play video. And besides that, I’m almost sure Apple will never make a MacBook a la surface (touchscreen, removable display, etc.)
Indeed... was ordering some components and also some client management forms via Safari and on the iPad they wouldn't work... had to move to my Mac and do them there.
So it's not just development tools or some native apps that make the iPad dead in the water as a laptop replacement.
Good. I want Apple to treat MacOS as a main flagship product. More MacOS marketshare=better.
That being said 22M computer per quarted ends up being more like 80M computer per years. Thats a crazy number and a huge customer base. Can't believe Apple neglected this so much so that they had an event actually named "Back to the Mac"
One would think they sold like 1.9M a year.
More like students learning from home. If you have 3 kids, now you need 3 laptops for 3 different classes. Most adults already had a computer, so I don't see why that increased PC shipments. I don't imagine pre-covid19 they didn't and now they have to buy one.
That being said 22M computer per quarted ends up being more like 80M computer per years. Thats a crazy number and a huge customer base. Can't believe Apple neglected this so much so that they had an event actually named "Back to the Mac"
One would think they sold like 1.9M a year.
More like students learning from home. If you have 3 kids, now you need 3 laptops for 3 different classes. Most adults already had a computer, so I don't see why that increased PC shipments. I don't imagine pre-covid19 they didn't and now they have to buy one.
The numbers are good but if you segmented it into computers that cost $999 or more you'd see Apple Macs have a lot more share of that market.
Safari on iPads is very limited because they expect you to use an app usually, which is annoying. If there even is one. Last flight I took, the free movies over wifi didn't work on iPad at all, which seems backwards, but it is what it is.
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Curious that HP couldn't covert a growth market into more shipments.
I wonder what's wrong with them.
I have to say that my work HP laptop has a lot of blue screens. But that's apparently normal and acceptable, I gather at work 🤷♂️ (most of them were caused by Intel drivers 🤭)
I wonder what's wrong with them.
I have to say that my work HP laptop has a lot of blue screens. But that's apparently normal and acceptable, I gather at work 🤷♂️ (most of them were caused by Intel drivers 🤭)