Haha... so you're saying that mobile devices such as the iPod touch and the iPhone and the iPad are merely part of some trend... and like a bubble they're just gonna go <POOF> and disappear one day. L
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Dream on, oh visionary one.
I didn't say that. I said that, without the cutting edge cachet provided by high end cutting edge workstations, Apple toys are easily wiped out by cheaper and better competition. Once Apple is perceived as no longer cutting edge and special, fickle kids will go to cheaper manufacturers. Detract Job's fetishes, and competition that can do things Apple refuses to looks even better.
No, those numbers do not include the toy segment, unless you are counting laptops as toys.
Laptops are their own issue, because most people are forced to replace them once they drop. It's safe to say for every desktop sold, the unwary consumer will buy at least three laptops.
I dont care if the rate of growth in the i-department is unsustainable, it doesn't need to be. Fact remains that if Apple didn't care about toys and was still catering to your market exclusively, they'd be out of business.
Does that mean they SHOULD abandon that segment? Arguable, but it looks like they have, regardless.
I'm not saying it makes me happy, just the way it is.
And you really are dellusional if you think steve taking leave means BD in your machines in the near term.
So tell me, just for ***** and grins, lets say they implement the changes tomorrow and BD will now be supported. What is your next step personally?
My job becomes infinitely easier. I've already bought an eightcore and twelvecore this year, and I won't have to divest and change all my software to windows.
But then I start lobbying to update FCS, Logic, and Shake.
And I've never argued they abandon the toy market; just give their higher end equal time.
I know, the silly thing about his bubble theory is he thinks that the unsustainability of this growth for the long term somehow leads back to the high end segment as the savior.....lol!!!
Do Japanese and Chinese manufacturers still make cheap musical keyboards today? Yes.
Are ALL the HUMONGOUS US organ manufacturers (and there were at least twelve of them) of the 70's out of business by the 90's? Save two, yes.
Did they go out of business because they chose to chase Casio and other cheap foreign brand TOY KEYBOARDS? Yes.
Did it work? At first. Then dismal failure as they could not compete with cheaper and superior competition. It took awhile, but even their high end suffered because of their failing toys. Even killing their piano divisions in the case where such existed (Baldwin).
Did the two US organ makers (Rodgers and Allen) that survive choose to cater to only the high end market (churches and millionaires) and quit making cheap Casio keyboards? Yes.
What people like you don't get is that iPods and iPhones existed in the 60's. Try and find transistor radios and walkie talkie sets now.
Or slinkys.
Cheap iCrap is easily copied, easily discarded, and with Jobs and his mental problems with Flash and Blu-ray and matte screens at the helm, easily bettered. And even the great and mighty Jobs can only travel so far on momentum from the days when Apple computers WERE cutting edge and the go-to computer for creative content PROFESSIONALS.
And as far as a "mobile world", people who think desktops will disappear are the same folks who back in 1961 insisted we'd all be flying around in Jetsons aircars by 1975.
Desktops will never disappear. People who work hard for a living want to be able to LEAVE their work BEHIND when they leave their desks.
P.S. Rodgers only survives because ROLAND of JAPAN bought it. PRECISELY to add a cutting-edge high end cachet to their cheaper keyboard line.
