When I started building PC's in the early 00's it was always this way, Mac was a premium product, you seemed to get less bang for your buck - I din't know if that has ever changed, maybe varied but it looks like it's back to where it was in the cycle over 10 years ago. this is the kind of resistance that kept me away form the platform until 2008 - then you realise what you were missing and it's more than the sum of components, from a day to day computing point of view.
Granted you will always have the industrial level requirements, those at the edge always need the hardcore tools.
Apple is a popular brand now. That's the reality. It's still making good products but it has lost it way, it has allowed competition to eat away, but look every laptop is designed to look like a mac these days, the industry are still lead by Mac legacy. Apple proved the dollar was there and it made everyone want to catch up, which has taken a decade more or less but since then Apple has a bigger business model than that which is many respects is what others don't have, but Apple crobarred that world open and many woudln't be doing what they do had their not been the ice-breaking run of Apple.
That's the real story.
Apple has two primary threats as I see it.
1) Competition - Apple's only real competition/industry-threat, is itself. (Internal)
2) Act of God - some market type flux/event or cataclysmic economic/world event impossible to plan for. (external)
Historically, one thing that I noticed with in the mid 00's, many young folk were using these laptops to do heavy lifting which to my way of thinking at the time was insane as it would have been better served by desktop power but I guess people had X budget and being young were also very mobile at that point in life so it worked on a number of levels. Think students.
A Mac Pro is a mighty heavy Box.
That was a formidable change in user behaviour but tech had started to really bust past limitations and the mobile computer was able to perform and Apple with the Mac captured that wave over everyone else. They set the bar here and as I said everyone else has been in catch up. So the competition have finally outpaced Apples 2006-2008 moment, meanwhile Apple is further ahead in many respects. I think it is trying to diversify nor is it perfect. See point 1 - hubris can be hard to differentiate from competence but I'd like it to continue to exist and keep that eco-system in place. evolving and developing.
There is nothing I see form Apple that was not extolled or wished for by Jobs going by the numerous videos on line. The whole wireless world and locked down device, that's all Jobs. They only seem to be fulfilling that vision. They seems to be very faithful to it. I just don't care for the virtue signalling but global marketing seems to be paying homage to a certain type of new world view, call it the Brave New World Order $, as Bill Hicks might have themed it.
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To quote Steve Jobs - "decision fatigue".
[doublepost=1529508486][/doublepost]I wound't blame Tim for not wadding into a 77 page long thread, perhaps an assistant might.
People should now summarise their position in 5/8 lines of key points, then the thread should be locked 48/72 hours of summary points, end.
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If this thread has had 100,000 views, lets assume they are unique hits and each one of those viewers has on average $2K to spend on Apple products in the next 6 months - that's a spending block of $200,000,000, waiting in the wings.
My point rally is; what is the market size of this segment of the Macbook market, think are you 1/2% of the 11% of people who buy Macs?
What value do you represent in revenue for Apple?
If you fall into only 1/2% of Appel Mac customers, you may have half the answer you need, or maybe all.
I din't know the figure but I'm doing my best to illustrate it's important ot get to the root of the problem, once you have that then you know what path to take to solve it, instead of shouting at the sky.
Granted you will always have the industrial level requirements, those at the edge always need the hardcore tools.
Apple is a popular brand now. That's the reality. It's still making good products but it has lost it way, it has allowed competition to eat away, but look every laptop is designed to look like a mac these days, the industry are still lead by Mac legacy. Apple proved the dollar was there and it made everyone want to catch up, which has taken a decade more or less but since then Apple has a bigger business model than that which is many respects is what others don't have, but Apple crobarred that world open and many woudln't be doing what they do had their not been the ice-breaking run of Apple.
That's the real story.
Apple has two primary threats as I see it.
1) Competition - Apple's only real competition/industry-threat, is itself. (Internal)
2) Act of God - some market type flux/event or cataclysmic economic/world event impossible to plan for. (external)
Historically, one thing that I noticed with in the mid 00's, many young folk were using these laptops to do heavy lifting which to my way of thinking at the time was insane as it would have been better served by desktop power but I guess people had X budget and being young were also very mobile at that point in life so it worked on a number of levels. Think students.
A Mac Pro is a mighty heavy Box.
That was a formidable change in user behaviour but tech had started to really bust past limitations and the mobile computer was able to perform and Apple with the Mac captured that wave over everyone else. They set the bar here and as I said everyone else has been in catch up. So the competition have finally outpaced Apples 2006-2008 moment, meanwhile Apple is further ahead in many respects. I think it is trying to diversify nor is it perfect. See point 1 - hubris can be hard to differentiate from competence but I'd like it to continue to exist and keep that eco-system in place. evolving and developing.
There is nothing I see form Apple that was not extolled or wished for by Jobs going by the numerous videos on line. The whole wireless world and locked down device, that's all Jobs. They only seem to be fulfilling that vision. They seems to be very faithful to it. I just don't care for the virtue signalling but global marketing seems to be paying homage to a certain type of new world view, call it the Brave New World Order $, as Bill Hicks might have themed it.
[doublepost=1529508006][/doublepost]
To quote Steve Jobs - "decision fatigue".
[doublepost=1529508486][/doublepost]I wound't blame Tim for not wadding into a 77 page long thread, perhaps an assistant might.
People should now summarise their position in 5/8 lines of key points, then the thread should be locked 48/72 hours of summary points, end.
- - -
If this thread has had 100,000 views, lets assume they are unique hits and each one of those viewers has on average $2K to spend on Apple products in the next 6 months - that's a spending block of $200,000,000, waiting in the wings.
My point rally is; what is the market size of this segment of the Macbook market, think are you 1/2% of the 11% of people who buy Macs?
What value do you represent in revenue for Apple?
If you fall into only 1/2% of Appel Mac customers, you may have half the answer you need, or maybe all.
I din't know the figure but I'm doing my best to illustrate it's important ot get to the root of the problem, once you have that then you know what path to take to solve it, instead of shouting at the sky.
