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Mid Feb

Wow, I was expecting an upgrade to the MBPs, and the MPs in mid Feb, but now, I think they are waiting for the iPad to be released and out for a while so as to not steal its fire...
 
What I don't get is people referring to the waitforan update as "Apple playing games," and getting mad at the company. Like we have a right to a new version of this or that every X days. The info on this site is just rumors after all. Apple has no compulsion to be on their schedule or ours!
When you know the industry like some of us do, you know it is nothing EXCEPT one big giant game. Look what happened to Apple's stock when announced the iPad release would be set back to Apr 4: It peaked at an ALL TIME HIGH. You think that was a coincidence or an accident? Apple is the 4th largest publicly traded company! $200B corporations don't make accidents that make them billions!!! :eek:

Apple ALWAYS has the next generation of every single product on the shelf ready for immediate release. They were working on the iPhone 4G before they even released the 3G. To even begin to think that it's not a game is MADNESS because there is NOTHING ELSE it could possibly be.There is not even a 1% chance that it isn't a game. You think they're going to release a new MacBook in the middle of the iPad's glory? WTF WOULD THEY DO THAT FOR?! :confused:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/05/apple-stock-hits-all-time-high-near-200b-market-cap/

Alright, I do see where your points are coming from, but I still disagree with a good portion of your argument. First off, the iPad isn't a competitor with the MBP.... unless people were paying 1500 before in order to surf the web, which would blow my mind in all honesty. I do understand that they do 'mind game' the market, but I don't believe that this release date is evident of that. Maybe they were waiting for the new NVIDIA GPU, or maybe they are just taking their damn time because they can, and there is no need to rush perfection ;) :apple:

It's a month later on release day (Saturday because people are off work and can stand in lines) and you can see the prophecy has come true...

know stuff around here. Some, more that they should. I leaked the iPhone to PC magazine 4 months before it's first release and they blew me off. I *could* tell you down to the exact hour when the 4G will be announced.

:apple: Think Retarded
 
It's a month later and you can see the prophecy has come true...

People know stuff around here. Some, more that they should. I leaked the iPhone to PC magazine 4 months before it's first release and they blew me off. I *could* tell you down to the exact hour when the 4G will be announced.

:apple: Think Retarded

Which prophecy has come true... Because there were about 100 saying "New MBPs by ..." (fill in the blank), and not a single one of those has materialized. I think the only two predictions left are 16 April and June.

It is all guess work here. Speculation or throwing darts at a calendar. :)
 
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