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Tim Cook: Apple 'Spending an Enormous Amount' on 'Macs of the Future'
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Maybe because the guy is having to deal with an unprecedented amount of pressure and expectations for Apple to "deliver" (even though they've been delivering a steady string of benchmark products), that Steve Jobs never had to deal with.
The more Apple says nothing, the more speculation starts to take over reality and lies begin to turn into truths. But the more Apple says, the more expectations rise (unrealistically).
Apple has been delivering just as strong as when Steve Jobs was around. If you took off your rose colored shades and looked at things more rationally, you would have probably seen it too. Steve Jobs introduced 3-4 major disruptive product lines in his long career at Apple spanning decades. Yet 2 years after he's passed away, people have somehow managed to warp their recollection of history into believing Steve Jobs deliverered major disruption 2-3 times a year. I admire the guy too, but Jesus, I also admire the most important thing he built (which is Apple).
Its unbelievable. Childish. Foolish. And incredibly selfish.
unless Apple is planning a buyback, in which case it is completely in their interest for the stock price to drop.
And if "AAPL stock holders like you" don't like what the company does, what are you going to do about it? Exercise the voting rights of your shares?
Sell your shares at market price to someone else who wants them, which doesn't affect Apple at all because Apple is neither the buyer nor seller when you do so?
And why is the bean counter, Cook, being taken to the proverbial woodshed - DECLINING margins and FLAT profits.
I'd just be happy if Apple increased the BTO options (GPU and storage, in particular) for the top end 21.5" iMac to match both the top end 27" iMac and top end 15" retina Macbook Pro. Maxing it at only 1GB GPU and 512GB flash is handicapping the 21.5" in my opinion.
Glad to hear that they are still thinking about the Mac. I just hope its not just in hardware. I'd love to see new Apps or updates to existing apps.
That won't happen, it's like asking for a cheap iPhone. It didn't happen and it won't happen on Mac. You can get a Mac Mini, I guess.
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Maybe with the IGZO displays and the new Broadwell SoCs
Maybe a pizza box fleet of computers for enterprise customers? I could imagine something about the size of a SPARCStation 20 which is easily accessible - sell only to volume buyers:
I'd love to see something like that particularly if they get the whole teething issues of 10.9.x sorted and and they focus on establishing a roadmap.
I don't understand why my phone and iPad both have LTE, but not my MacBook Pro.
Pisses me off actually.
Pisses me off actually.
Holy cobwebs Spider-Man! Dust it off and put it back in its time capsule ...
We still have servers not much younger than those still in operation, LOL. I worked on boxes of that vintage when first learning Unix (Solaris, IRIX, PH-UX).
Funny how things go in reverse sometimes. Remember how long it took Apple and PC's to get all the way up to 30" screens? Now the next "new" think is little 12" screens??
It's a mobile world my friend.
It would be great if they sold a Mac with industry standard PCIe slots, some room for a few drives, the ability to use PC graphics cards, dual CPU options, plenty of memory slots for those big users, and a decent power supply.
They could call it "Mac Pro" or something like that.
They could call it "Mac Pro" or something like that.
The "bean counter" that Steve Jobs thought was the right person to run Apple. Running a company that has higher revenue and profits and sells more product than it ever did under Steve Jobs.
Better re-release a 17" with current specs (meaning 4K Retina screen) and preferably DVD bay (that is, dual-spin config)...
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Exactly. The 17" is already the size where you don't any more need external monitors for serious for example coding. (And the only way of my using a Mac during the Summer holiday - in rural Finland, in my summer cottage, we don't have electricity to power an external monitor.)
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Exactly. The 17" is already the size where you don't any more need external monitors for serious for example coding. (And the only way of my using a Mac during the Summer holiday - in rural Finland, in my summer cottage, we don't have electricity to power an external monitor.)