So since there isn’t a better panel than H-IPS, how do you propose Apple make a “more decent” display?
I mispoke on my last sentence. I was thinking of the 2 year old video card they elected to keep. I don't know if there were power and performance concerns or there weren't many gains to be had by using the latest video cards relative to their price. They could update their actual monitors which could use an upgrade. I'm not sure why they've neglected these. In either case...
I don't have proof of intel blocking Apple outright but it appears that way.
I see the sarc, but, you know, I think it may be as important to Apple that (as the Ford spokesperson referred to) it will make the Apple ecosystem sticky at home for these thousands of people too…they won't be buying Apple TV's or iPods at work, but they'll be buying iMac's and Apple laptops and iPads for both. I know the Enterprise is huge, but for, literally millions of workers to be exposed to that experience will make so many of them finally a bit more willing to spring for more quality at home, and that's huge too…
Sorry, got a little breathless, there - nothing new about that strategy, but it's really fine to see it starting to bubble.
If these 9,300 people are seeing an iPhone for the first time ('literally' not millions, just 9,300), then Ford hires ignorant idiots who have no idea of the world around them (Well, they did use SYNC on their cars;-). 5% (the ratio of Ford employees getting iPhones) of the F500 companies is just over 1 million. Again, if this TOP 5% of corporate earners haven't been exposed to the apple ecosystem, Apple has been selling to the wrong market.
The BIG WIN is not exposure, but allowance. If I have to buy a phone, and my work place doesn't support an iPhone in a BYOD, I may not buy it (why have 2 phones, both of which I have to pay for?). All those other 172,000 Ford employees can have an iPhone that is ALLOWED on their corporate network. They may not want it, but those that do, can now, without having 2 phones, or selecting a weaker sauced phone.
The BIGGER Win is an iOS based technology infrastructure in the enterprise, this is the long game big win. For every Ford, Apple established a mini market for iOS apps. You know why mainframes are still in corps... because it damned expensive to replace all the legacy code and processes that have been optimized over 30 years. Why Lotus Notes is still there... because entire processes have been optimized on code developed in the 90s. You know why Cisco is so hard to move out of corp networks, because they ARE corp networks. Why Microsoft is hard to move out, because so many things are build on the things in the environment to support Windows. This is the big win for Apple, not the presence of the hardware, but that hardware is blessed to be a platform to be developed on. That's High Ground, a place where it's really hard to get knocked off of, especially if it's your leadership who all have iPhones, and feel the value every time they use them.
I mispoke on my last sentence. I was thinking of the 2 year old video card they elected to keep. I don't know if there were power and performance concerns or there weren't many gains to be had by using the latest video cards relative to their price.
Oh. Yeah, I don’t get that. The 860M is out, after all.
I don’t have proof of intel blocking Apple outright but it appears that way.
They just updated their laptops with the chips that Intel announced a week ago. Any “delay” in product is Apple refusing to release it, nothing more.
Do you see a massive pent up demand for PC users wanting to use their XVGA 19" monitors, black ugly keyboards and 3 button mice with a new Mini...
I have owned atleast 5 minis over the years 2006-> and only one iMac. The imac is probably going to be the only one I ever owned. Same goes for wireless keyboards. It looks like Im going to have to get some more wired apple keyboards from somewhere to get by a new decade.
And what goes for 19" XVGA monitors, i atleast have never owned such shit while i have owned my minis. Some of them have been connected to 50" tv:s some to 24" IPS panels and so on... besides i just think the 16:9 just sucks big time if your not going to just watch films on that computer...
What if i think 21,5" is like something from the 90:s and the 27" is too big? i want a good 24" 16:10 IPS panel thats not glossy. why cant i have it? Oh wait I can if I buy the mini. I will get everything that i need and want without apple choosing whats best for me... Oh wait its not going to be updated in any way for 2,5 years, aaahhh.. thats the only bummer.... Seems like you have to be on apples update schedule if you like the mini....
Apple can not switch to better offerings... because Intel laggggggggggggs with introducing new nodes. (Intel will be overdue 3-4 quaters after it release Broadwell)
And Apple is not switching to AMD.
So at least on CPU/GPU side, Apple play cards it was given.
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No, not in the slightest.
Uh, proof?
So since there isn’t a better panel than H-IPS, how do you propose Apple make a “more decent” display?
I mispoke on my last sentence. I was thinking of the 2 year old video card they elected to keep. I don't know if there were power and performance concerns or there weren't many gains to be had by using the latest video cards relative to their price. They could update their actual monitors which could use an upgrade. I'm not sure why they've neglected these. In either case...
I don't have proof of intel blocking Apple outright but it appears that way.
I see the sarc, but, you know, I think it may be as important to Apple that (as the Ford spokesperson referred to) it will make the Apple ecosystem sticky at home for these thousands of people too…they won't be buying Apple TV's or iPods at work, but they'll be buying iMac's and Apple laptops and iPads for both. I know the Enterprise is huge, but for, literally millions of workers to be exposed to that experience will make so many of them finally a bit more willing to spring for more quality at home, and that's huge too…
Sorry, got a little breathless, there - nothing new about that strategy, but it's really fine to see it starting to bubble.
If these 9,300 people are seeing an iPhone for the first time ('literally' not millions, just 9,300), then Ford hires ignorant idiots who have no idea of the world around them (Well, they did use SYNC on their cars;-). 5% (the ratio of Ford employees getting iPhones) of the F500 companies is just over 1 million. Again, if this TOP 5% of corporate earners haven't been exposed to the apple ecosystem, Apple has been selling to the wrong market.
The BIG WIN is not exposure, but allowance. If I have to buy a phone, and my work place doesn't support an iPhone in a BYOD, I may not buy it (why have 2 phones, both of which I have to pay for?). All those other 172,000 Ford employees can have an iPhone that is ALLOWED on their corporate network. They may not want it, but those that do, can now, without having 2 phones, or selecting a weaker sauced phone.
The BIGGER Win is an iOS based technology infrastructure in the enterprise, this is the long game big win. For every Ford, Apple established a mini market for iOS apps. You know why mainframes are still in corps... because it damned expensive to replace all the legacy code and processes that have been optimized over 30 years. Why Lotus Notes is still there... because entire processes have been optimized on code developed in the 90s. You know why Cisco is so hard to move out of corp networks, because they ARE corp networks. Why Microsoft is hard to move out, because so many things are build on the things in the environment to support Windows. This is the big win for Apple, not the presence of the hardware, but that hardware is blessed to be a platform to be developed on. That's High Ground, a place where it's really hard to get knocked off of, especially if it's your leadership who all have iPhones, and feel the value every time they use them.
Oh. Yeah, I don’t get that. The 860M is out, after all.
I don’t have proof of intel blocking Apple outright but it appears that way.
They just updated their laptops with the chips that Intel announced a week ago. Any “delay” in product is Apple refusing to release it, nothing more.
why do you see this 'serious' market share gain?
No really... why?
Do you see a massive pent up demand for PC users wanting to use their XVGA 19" monitors, black ugly keyboards and 3 button mice with a new Mini...
I have owned atleast 5 minis over the years 2006-> and only one iMac. The imac is probably going to be the only one I ever owned. Same goes for wireless keyboards. It looks like Im going to have to get some more wired apple keyboards from somewhere to get by a new decade.
And what goes for 19" XVGA monitors, i atleast have never owned such shit while i have owned my minis. Some of them have been connected to 50" tv:s some to 24" IPS panels and so on... besides i just think the 16:9 just sucks big time if your not going to just watch films on that computer...
What if i think 21,5" is like something from the 90:s and the 27" is too big? i want a good 24" 16:10 IPS panel thats not glossy. why cant i have it? Oh wait I can if I buy the mini. I will get everything that i need and want without apple choosing whats best for me... Oh wait its not going to be updated in any way for 2,5 years, aaahhh.. thats the only bummer.... Seems like you have to be on apples update schedule if you like the mini....
Apple can not switch to better offerings...
because Intel laggggggggggggs with introducing new nodes. (Intel will be overdue 3-4 quaters after it release Broadwell)
And Apple is not switching to AMD.
So at least on CPU/GPU side, Apple play cards it was given.
"focus on value"
(Ok. OSX will get big value added...