Apple's MacBook sales growth may outpace both iPhone and iPad this year
Apple may be looking at a huge year for MacBooks, with growth having a chance to exceed that of every other Apple product line, including the iPhone and iPad.
KGI Securities' Ming-Chi Kuo, working off of supply chain intel, predicted that year-over-year MacBook shipments will grow 13 percent to 16 percent in 2018, significantly ahead of projected growth for the iPhone (4-6 percent) and iPad (7-10 percent), according to a writeup of the analysis by StreetInsider.
MacBook shipments, Kuo said in the note, will grow between 60 percent and 80 percent in the second quarter over the same period last year, as new models ship, although 65 percent to 70 percent of the year's shipments will come in the second half of the year, as per the normal distribution of hardware sales, given Apple's historical release cycle.
Earlier this month, Kuo predicted that Apple will put out a lower-cost MacBook Air in the second quarter of 2018 -- which is likely what he is basing some of his predictions on.
KGI Securities' Ming-Chi Kuo, working off of supply chain intel, predicted that year-over-year MacBook shipments will grow 13 percent to 16 percent in 2018, significantly ahead of projected growth for the iPhone (4-6 percent) and iPad (7-10 percent), according to a writeup of the analysis by StreetInsider.
MacBook shipments, Kuo said in the note, will grow between 60 percent and 80 percent in the second quarter over the same period last year, as new models ship, although 65 percent to 70 percent of the year's shipments will come in the second half of the year, as per the normal distribution of hardware sales, given Apple's historical release cycle.
Earlier this month, Kuo predicted that Apple will put out a lower-cost MacBook Air in the second quarter of 2018 -- which is likely what he is basing some of his predictions on.
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But either way, continue with the "new Apple hardware is a disaster" narrative. It's not like it's an original thought- it's lazy, and people like you have been claiming this for the past couple decades with every new Mac update.
I'm a developer, using the function keys often, and the Touch Bar does not get in the way.
One data+charging port (along with the headphone port). Charge overnight, use all day. Keyboard included.
Your posts always seem to state unsubstantiated info, or you are trashing a product or service? You're the person that claimed airplay was so horribly bad that people have been infuriated with disconnects for years? Get your home network together or something else is causing you these issues; because I don't have those same things occure with ANY device. I don't think I am the only one.. My brother remotely connects to my mac at home and airplays movies from his ipad to a 3rd gen appletv regularly with zero issues. Every once in a while you need to restart a device, but it's hardly the frustrating mess you make it out to be. Back around ios 9 this was a different story, at least for me.
You were also the person that told another member that we would need to wait on Apple home sharing support for homepod in order to play music from your iphone or ipad on homepod if you don't have iTunes match? What are you talking about?
I even commented that I was able to play FLAC files from iCloud drive via airplay to my homepod with no problems. This has nothing to do with Match or Applemusic.
Please stop this whole Apple bashing shtick, or bashing in the form of incorrect info..it's weak and kind of silly at this point.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/10/17/johnston-macbook-keyboard
Again, Lenovo makes durable keyboards, and even they are spill resistant.
I don't understand the "getting used to". Why do you need to get used to a good keyboard? I didn't need to get used to Thinkpad keyboards or Apple trackpads. They are good since the first day you work on them. Maybe they aren't that good at all, and you just get used to it.
What an absolutely ridiculous, short-sighted mentality. So, nothing can ever change, because we should never have to adapt or adjust to anything? I guess Apple should have NEVER introduced a touchscreen keyboard on the iPhone (or a million other things) as that required adjustment, and are therefore "not good"? I guess you missed the very next time of my post, where I claimed that I can now type FASTER on the new keyboard than I ever could on previous keyboards? That's the good kind of adjustment- short term pain (ie. getting used to it) for long term gain. I don't miss a single aspect of the older keyboards. The new ones are superior, even if slightly different. God help us if Apple ever adopted your "its good enough and works fine" mentality instead of constantly rethinking and questioning everything. SO many Apple products and features have been initially met with "WTF is this", to "this should be the new standard" and the entire industry eventually adopting the change.
That's it. I like the previous poster's comment, "charge at night, and use all day!" That's my MacBook experience, too!
The fact is, some people just want to keep doing things the same way they've always done them for whatever reason. Or they're in a niche usage scenario and believe the rest of the world is the same as they are. I mean, I'd love Apple to include pro audio input/outputs on the MBP too, but I understand that the rest of the world doesn't want to pay extra and have a heavier machine for things they'll never use. So I suck it up and buy an adapter for my niche.