Please think or research before you post. I understand not everyone has the time to know everything about a market. But can we not get pissed off and make blanket statements so long as you can admit that you don't know everything?
I was getting sick of seeing "Macs" at the Macworld anyway.
No news on BluRay, no 8 core Mac Pro, no feature bumps on the iMacs or laptops...
No leopard news either.
All desktops and servers were updated in Aug and Sept. The MacBook Pros were updated 77 days ago, the Macbooks 62. the iPods were also updated in [Sept. Wtf do you want? Did you want Apple to hold off on all those updated systems until MWSF just so you could have some Mac Products to go with your Keynote? AFAIK MWSF is about more than a keynote, in fact it's about more than Apple.
Jobs said this was to be the best one ever? What the hell am I going to do with an overpriced telephone which only works on a sh*t network (which I have to pay for 2 years)? Will it interface with my $300 Apple TV which doesn't even record shows? Outstanding.
I dare you to
never buy one.
ever.
Every product has to start someplace. If the only way to bring the iPhone to the US market was to attach it to a carrier for a year or two, big deal. The US cell carriers are all POS because they are holding back cell tech here. Look at Europe and Japenese Cell markets, their phones blow away the cell models that the US carriers let into the market here.
I'm surprised ANY cell carrier picked up on the iPhone actually. the 30 second song ring tone is a multi
billion dollar market. I don't have the figures in front of me, but I'm pretty sure more is made on ring tones that Apple makes in a year. To let a full fledged MP3 cell phone made by the number one MP3 maker is unbelievable in my book.
At least the iPod's screen got brighter (pinch me, please, I'm doubled over in awe).
Great way to kick off 30 years: "WE HAVE STOPPED MAKING COMPUTERS! HELL, WE EVEN CHANGED NAMES."
Incredible way to kick it off. Not only have all comuters made the switch to Intel, and we are intering the year with generally brand new computers (new in the last 5 months), but our beloved company has officially entered into two new high profit, high profile, tech expanding markets. Their first go may not be spectacular, or within my budget, but the future of the cell phone is the future of computers. I can see past my own means. Home entertainment is the future of our lives.
You may not be able to aford a Porshe, or even like them, but its the technology that goes into these high end specielty cars that makes it down to the consumer's every day use. (If you want a better example than porshe see the the electric car by the company "Tesla").
Keep up the good work, Steve! Stretch that R&D budget even thinner!
Your most genious statement yet. the iPod rakes in more money, and is (I'm just guessing here) far cheaper as far as R&D goes than the Apple laptops and desktops. So, logic says that if ANYTHING, Apple's other products are providing the computer department with more R&D revenue. If you really want to drop a profit sucker, get rid of OSX, I'm sure they don't make up the R&D cost on that product
Simple put"
iPod profit = large
iPod R%D = small
Macs profit: medium
Macs R&D medium to large
OSX profit: small
OSX R&D: large
But Apple and all its products are done by a single company, that can distrubute resources. I'm pretty sure no profit from the Macs is going into iPod R%D< not at this point at least...
