Baymowe335
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They are maintaining them. They just aren't updating the Mini on your desired schedule.
Tim Cook Highlights 'The Big Draw' Sketching Sessions Taking Place at Apple Stores This Month
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magicschoolbus
macrumors 68030
It's astonishing. It's like the world revolves around them and them alone.
iapplelove
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Since I need a new iPad I’m gonna gold you to that lol
charlituna
macrumors G3
bull. everyone knows that apple can't multitask. the same folks that design the computers design everything else and write the software. don't try to tell folks otherwise
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given that store staff have zip to do with designing and announcing stuff so what they don't won't affect the precious announcements
redheeler
macrumors G3
Once again, the Mac mini has gone a full 4 years without a refresh, and is very outdated by today's standards regardless of my "desired schedule" or anyone else's. Apple hasn't discontinued it, but hasn't maintained it either.
Baymowe335
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And? What were the sales for the Mac Mini in its first year?
lunarworks
macrumors 68000
They're not mocking you.
The persecution complex here can be incredible.
The persecution complex here can be incredible.
redheeler
macrumors G3
Sales of the 2014 Mac mini? It was a step backward from the 2012 in several ways, so wouldn't expect sales were great.
Don't get me wrong, I (probably) know why Apple cares less about the Mac mini than they did in 2012. I posted about it here. But that doesn't mean no one will buy the Mac mini, nor that it should go 4 years without a refresh or be discontinued.
You are obviously looking at this from a shareholder's perspective. Try looking at it from a customer's perspective too.
dogslobber
macrumors 601
2 years ago, Phil said:
Phil Schiller: On that I’ll say the Mac Mini is an important product in our lineup and we weren’t bringing it up because it’s more of a mix of consumer with some pro use. So we’re focusing today specifically on the things that are important to pros. While there are some pro usage, there’s also a lot of consumer uses so we aren’t covering it today. The Mac Mini remains a product in our lineup, but nothing more to say about it today.
If we haven’t communicated that, we have a lot of people working on the Mac — a lot of really brilliant people invested in great new products in both infrastructure and people — then we haven’t done our job here today because we do have a lot of resources on the Mac, and that’s gonna stay.
Phil Schiller: On that I’ll say the Mac Mini is an important product in our lineup and we weren’t bringing it up because it’s more of a mix of consumer with some pro use. So we’re focusing today specifically on the things that are important to pros. While there are some pro usage, there’s also a lot of consumer uses so we aren’t covering it today. The Mac Mini remains a product in our lineup, but nothing more to say about it today.
If we haven’t communicated that, we have a lot of people working on the Mac — a lot of really brilliant people invested in great new products in both infrastructure and people — then we haven’t done our job here today because we do have a lot of resources on the Mac, and that’s gonna stay.
What is the percentage of Apple's customer base specifically looking for a Mini - even one that's regularly updated? I'd imagine it's quite small. And that explains how Apple has decided to allocate their resources towards keeping it fresh.
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Baymowe335
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Apple doesn’t and shouldn’t update products more than necessary to maximize sales. They aren’t in business to make niche products forms small groups of complainers. They didn’t kill the Mini, they just don’t update it as often as their bigger products.
This is no longer 2012.
CarlJ
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Look, Apple has done a terrible job with the Mac lineup in the last five years - the Mac Mini, the Mac Pro, compromising the laptop ports to make the laptops thinner (which nobody asked for)...
But, once again, the graphic artists who draw new emoji (to fill the spots in Unicode that the Emoji Subcommittee of the Unicode Consortium adds), and the folks who work at the Apple Stores, who are handling these drawing classes, have NO OVERLAP with the software developers and hardware developers working on new Macs.
So can we quit the incessant whining about the Mac lineup on every single article on this site? There's a contingent of forum members here whose attitude and logic seem to line up closely with that of a three year old who didn't get their nap today - they want everyone to pay attention to how unhappy they are. Well, Apple doesn't read these forums, and they certainly don't use opinions expressed here in order to decide where to put their resources and attention. If you want to actually effect a change, rather than just whining at innocent bystanders, maybe organize a few thousand like-minded people to go picket in front of Apple's headquarters, instead of disrupting every single article's comments on this website - a lot of us are here to see on-topic discussion of the article at hand, rather than yet more whining about the Mac situation (which, again, I agree is a mess) - it's like having a TV where every single channel is showing the same annoying infomercial.
And, if you didn't notice already, Apple announced an event for later this month, about 15 minutes after your post (though, to be clear, not because of your post).
Magelaus
macrumors newbie
I've been drawing. Most often simple or colored pencils like these https://wowpencils.com/best-colored-pencils/ .It would be interesting to draw with electronic pencils too.