Why Apple Why?

[draculr]

It annoys me that every now and then apple lets this happen. Look at the buyer's guide on this site and you'll see that just about everything is red!

I'm in the market for a new macbook pro, new display and ipad mini. Come on apple why wont you take my money!!

 

[ValSalva]

I can understand your frustration about not having new products but...

The red dots mean these products are due to be upgraded sometime soon. And it's just opinion. It doesn't mean they are not still available or that for some reason they are no longer any good.

Apple is still very willing to take your money today and you will get great computers, iPads, iPhones, and iPods no matter how many red dots are on the buyer's guide.

 

[Zeov]

Apple releases a product when they feel it's ready, and not a moment too soon, they couldn't give a flying F about when and where you need a new Mac, and thats something i hope they will keep doing. Let all the other companies release unfinished products because they want money over quality.

 

[eawmp1]

I'm in the market for a new macbook pro, new display and ipad mini. Come on apple why wont you take my money!!

I am sorry that Apple didn't take your needs into consideration with their release cycles, and that their current offerings are so deficient as to not meet your computing needs now.

 

[draculr]

I am sorry that Apple didn't take your needs into consideration with their release cycles, and that their current offerings are so deficient as to not meet your computing needs now.

It's okay, I forgive you.

 

[BlockEight88]

It annoys me that every now and then apple lets this happen. Look at the buyer's guide on this site and you'll see that just about everything is red!

I'm in the market for a new macbook pro, new display and ipad mini. Come on apple why wont you take my money!!

My thoughts exactly...

 

[NT1440]

What do you mean why?

The holiday season is rapidly approaching. That's why. Refresh before the holidays = big bucks during the most important shopping time of the year.

 

[mslide]

I'm in the market for a new macbook pro, new display and ipad mini. Come on apple why wont you take my money!!

If only Apple sold their products throughout their entire lifecycle. It sucks that Apple refuses to sell any given product 6 months after it is released.

 

[whitedragon101]

I grant you it is very strange with the rMBP delay as the Haswell CPUs (except 1) have been out for months. We are now in the build up to Broadwell. They must have a very good reason for the delay to be so far behind. It is either :

Something unfortunate like they are waiting for the as yet unreleased 4960HQ i7 chip which is the highest performing iris5200. For highest performing read slower than the current nVidia 650m
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture)
Hmm that makes a bit too much sense. I was rather looking forward to the promises of huge speed boosts of next years nVidia Maxwell chips.

or

Something really cool like a production delay because they are putting in something spangly and new like IGZO or Firebreathing PCIe SSD performance (ie better than the air).... One can dream

 

[Count Blah]

Sadly, it's a perfect storm of iOS and OS X getting updates at around the same time as product updates.

I don't understand the "defense without question" of most folks here however. Expecting more from a company, and letting them know that, is far more advantageous to customers than literally telling the company that they can put a steaming pile on a plate, whenever they see fit, and we'll buy it in droves.

Expect and demand better. Other manufacturers will have had haswell machines out for almost 6 months before apple releases it in their complete lineup. But people here somehow seem like they couldn't be happier about that.

smh

 

[Sodner]

Or it could be simply Apple waiting for Mavericks to be ready and they are holding up the hardware releases so they can reveal it all at the same time in a room full of press at Apple HQ.

 

[abraxian]

Or it could be simply Apple waiting for Mavericks to be ready and they are holding up the hardware releases so they can reveal it all at the same time in a room full of press at Apple HQ.

Like has never happened

 

[draculr]

Sadly, it's a perfect storm of iOS and OS X getting updates at around the same time as product updates.

I don't understand the "defense without question" of most folks here however.

Yea. Perfect storm that's what I was commenting on. I wasn't expecting the volume of negativity just for trying to point that out.

 

[arcite]

Yea. Perfect storm that's what I was commenting on. I wasn't expecting the volume of negativity just for trying to point that out.

What were you expecting then? Sympathy?

Just wait a few more weeks, it will be worth it.

 

[ogi.nic]

Well, we mortals may never understand the gods (pun intended towards Apple and not to anyone's religion)...

Today I saw Sony's announcement on the Vaio Flip (IFA/Germany). That's it, just found my next machine. Glossy screen? Surprisingly I don't care. Windows? Don't care.

It's a pity though that it didn't come from Apple; I fear that the MBP Haswell update will only be a dissapointment, and a very predictable one. That's not "think different".
Will keep the 2008 cMBP though for nostalgic reasons.

So long and thanks for all the apples.

 

[mtneer]

It's the 4th quarter - exactly what I would expect to see. Almost every Apple product is due for an update. I would be concerned if they were all green; with no new/hope of anything new coming up in the pipeline (think Blackberry Ltd.)

 

[skaertus]

It annoys me that every now and then apple lets this happen. Look at the buyer's guide on this site and you'll see that just about everything is red!

I'm in the market for a new macbook pro, new display and ipad mini. Come on apple why wont you take my money!!

The release of new Apple products is taking more time now than before. But it's not only that. The Buyer Guide considers the average time in the past for the release of new products. But some products were released faster than they should be, and that spoils the average.

Said that, you can expect Apple to upgrade the iPhone and the iPad once a year, and the Macs to be upgraded whenever Intel launches a new processor.