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Yep, that about sums it up for pretty much everyone complaining about any part of it.
I mean, it’s pretty obvious, it’s nearly half the price of the former cheapest model, and people are complaining it doesn’t have many of the specs that extra $500 gets. Defies logic and common sense.
Meanwhile, here’s a thought I just had…
Apple’s overall profit was something like 45% in the last earnings call. But most of that is services and iPhones. I wonder what the profit margins are on the Macs…
Let’s say it’s 30% for most of the Macs, except the Neo that’s probably less, say 15%.
That would make the base model Air’s cost about $750 and the Neo’s about $500 (rough numbers). I wonder, if Apple sold all their Macs at cost, how much that would increase unit sales and market share, thus increasing all the service and other revenues. Would that offset and more, the lack of profit on the Macs, and thus increase the bottom line?
One problem with that: it’s potentially a dramatic increase in demand, but half the time Apple can’t keep up with existing demand, so they’d have to radically improve their supply if they were going to do that. But that aside, well, I just wonder.
In the meantime, they sell them for a profit, as they normally should, and so people complaining they don’t get the same stuff in the cheapest one as the next one up at almost twice the price… well, like I said, defies logic and common sense.
