Done.
Great! Keep us posted on their regrettable excuses.
They announce iPhones in advance, so what is stopping them to do the same with Macs?
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Great! Keep us posted on their regrettable excuses.
They announce iPhones in advance, so what is stopping them to do the same with Macs?
I think this is really lame.
I don't care about their consumer-lifestyle product lines. For professional computing equipment this policy is going to haunt them as soon all the current hype is settling and people realise what the Mac really is - a tool.
Edit: I am wishing these Psystar guys 'Good Luck' in their law-suite, if only to keep the Apple arrogance at bay.
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Ok, almost if it wasn't for dial up.. The library is no fun.
i am on the same boat. I have ordered a thinkpad just in case the release date of macbook is "next year"
It would be against the law for Apple to do so, as it might give some an advantage on dealing with shares in AAPL. Afaik, this is the primary reason. They run a tight ship.
I second this. the overheating issue of macbook pros bugged me for a long time. it's hard to get the work done so I have to use hackintosh instead.
To be honest, I imagine at least 95% of all iminent MB/MBP purchasers have no idea that Apple is about to update the lines, so I hardly imagine Apple is doing "poor business".
You have a point there. But apple community has some peculiar interest on apple products and is a lot more aware of things than the PC community.
Well its easier to be interested in the products of one company than keeping up with all the different computers sold in the Windows / Linux market.
Please state some exact reference for this statement.
If that would be true Intel could not openly discuss their further processor roadmap (which they very openly do), Cisco could have no development roadmap, MS should not be able to talk about Windows 7 and SnowLeopard should not be known. So clearly there is a lot of evidence to the contrary....
took the words from my....
Done.
can't wait , but like the other guy said I know their response " we do not discuss ........blah blah blah
Was ok for a while this secrecy thing but c'mon it's getting a little bit boring now , how on earth anyone who rely's on Mac's for business purposes manages to foresee what machines they need I'll never know , never mind the average Joe who just doesn't want to get burned 'cos they updated the machine he just bought weeks ago ...thus losing hard earned $£$£ overnight ....give us the specs , hell join in with what everyone else does & make a frikken road map already
No NEW MacBooks on Oktober 14th!!!
Having just read that Apple is reporting quarterly results on October 21st. I now firmly believe that we will see
No NEW MacBooks on Oktober 14th!!!
Either they release it before or well after, since a release a week before earnings are reported will confuse analysts...
i am on the same boat. I have ordered a thinkpad just in case the release date of macbook is "next year"
Having just read that Apple is reporting quarterly results on October 21st. I now firmly believe that we will see
No NEW MacBooks on Oktober 14th!!!
Either they release it before or well after, since a release a week before earnings are reported will confuse analysts...
Ok,
now this is getting silly. I have no idea if new systems will be announced on the 14th - but there is absolutely no correllation with the quarterly report. That makes no sense, and has no foundation in history.
There is nothing 'confusing' about it, IF it happened.
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now this is getting silly. I have no idea if new systems will be announced on the 14th - but there is absolutely no correllation with the quarterly report. That makes no sense, and has no foundation in history.
There is nothing 'confusing' about it, IF it happened.
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Having just read that Apple is reporting quarterly results on October 21st. I now firmly believe that we will see
No NEW MacBooks on Oktober 14th!!!
Either they release it before or well after, since a release a week before earnings are reported will confuse analysts...
Well, they could still announce them the 14th of October. And make them available starting November.Having just read that Apple is reporting quarterly results on October 21st. I now firmly believe that we will see
No NEW MacBooks on Oktober 14th!!!
Either they release it before or well after, since a release a week before earnings are reported will confuse analysts...
Another reason why I think that might be the case is the following: http://www.apple.com/benl/backtoschool/index.html?CID=WWW-EUBL-BTS20080916-AL9XV
Our European student rebate ends 31 October. If one buys a current MB(P) one gets a refund of 125 on an iPod Nano or iPod Touch. So maybe after the 31st we see new stuff...
ahh , this is just getting silly now ...I needed a new machine waaay back in spring but waited ,and waited ...and I'm still waiting
, see I just dont want to see my new purchase depreciate a massive amount just after I buy it(which it will if the thing gets updated the month or so after) ...Hang on though ..do you think that apple are deliberately doing this to pi*s everyone off who's waiting & trying to get 'us' to buy now ....won't work Apple ..I'm waitin , that's it now
Can you compare that to quarterly releases and past product updates to validate your point?
Well, the current generation iMac was released exactly one week 'AFTER' presenting their Q2 figures.
And there was much hype about an earlier release date...
Having just read that Apple is reporting quarterly results on October 21st. I now firmly believe that we will see
No NEW MacBooks on Oktober 14th!!!
Either they release it before or well after, since a release a week before earnings are reported will confuse analysts...
Somehow I doubt Apple cares so much about analysts' peace of mind. I suppose it's better to have analysts confused than to have them all downgrading their recommendation to "sell"... If those results aren't as pretty as expected, they may want to publish them after the release of new MacBooks, so the expectation is that the next quarter will bring better results. Also notice that the only reason we can suspect correlation between the supposed release and results publication is because the latter has been put off.
The quarter ended yesterday it takes a few weeks to prepare the reports so it will not confuse analysts.Having just read that Apple is reporting quarterly results on October 21st. I now firmly believe that we will see
No NEW MacBooks on Oktober 14th!!!
Either they release it before or well after, since a release a week before earnings are reported will confuse analysts...
Post no. 2000 yey!
Ok, almost if it wasn't for dial up.
Jumped the gun on that one, didn't you... lol
Has the policy been hurting them at all in many years theyve been offering notebooks?
exactly. I can vaguely recall someone posting on this site once with a quote from jobs saying he doesnt give a damn about the speculators.
Frankly I wouldn't care about those scumbags either (no offense to any speculators, i just really hate the idea that so much money depends on peoples expectations and opinions)
no , but it's been(is) hurting us consumers
it hasnt been hurting us either, it just frustrates us, so much so to the point that the whiney ones among us condemn a company for the practices that gave it such a special place in our hearts in the first place.