It cannot take them more than a year just to design a keyboard that functions. So why the delay of the 2018 MBP?
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What is Apple doing with all that money?
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The keyboards now function.
They are building and designing it. Some people really think this kind of work is easy. I don't get the mentality.
They use that money to send me a big quarterly dividend check. That I plow back into more shares of Apple!
They're spending the big bux trying to figure out how to make the next "pro" laptop 2 nanometers thinner and sell you a machine with no ports but costs $1,000 more.
Explanation:
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Under Timmy, Apple turned from a visionary company into a for-profit business. What generates the most profit gets the most attention.
Imagine this as your working day - out of your 8 hours every day you spend around 6 hours working on the iPhone and around 40 minutes working on Macs (ALL Macs - including MBP, iMac, MBair, MB, Mac Pro and iMac Pro, so considering these five categories you would probably spend around 8 minutes a day on the MBP).
8. Minutes. A day.
So when is that keyboard coming?
Under Timmy, Apple turned from a visionary company into a for-profit business. What generates the most profit gets the most attention.
Imagine this as your working day - out of your 8 hours every day you spend around 6 hours working on the iPhone and around 40 minutes working on Macs (ALL Macs - including MBP, iMac, MBair, MB, Mac Pro and iMac Pro, so considering these five categories you would probably spend around 8 minutes a day on the MBP).
8. Minutes. A day.
So when is that keyboard coming?
Explanation:
![zuinnq.png]()
Under Timmy, Apple turned from a visionary company into a for-profit business. What generates the most profit gets the most attention.
Imagine this as your working day - out of your 8 hours every day you spend around 6 hours working on the iPhone and around 40 minutes working on Macs (ALL Macs - including MBP, iMac, MBair, MB, Mac Pro and iMac Pro, so considering these five categories you would probably spend around 8 minutes a day on the MBP).
8. Minutes. A day.
So when is that keyboard coming?
Interesting analysis. And we should not forget that Apple seem to think that IOS is their future OS for laptops. They keep talking about a machine running an Apple processor in an even lighter 2-in-1 form factor, and getting away from Intel.
I never heard Apple talking about a 2-in-1 or even running a laptop with an A chip. There are rumours about the latter but that's it.
Also, getting away from Intel and using iOS on laptops is 2 very different things. In today's keynote they even mentioned that they have no intentions to merge iOS and macOS. A laptop running iOS would be less portable than an iPad and less powerful/versatile than a MacBook...