The only thing I've been disappointed about in the past week are the industry analysts who have nothing upbeat to say about Apple. And they wonder why the economy is still in the dumps...When you read Michael Hillmeyer's comments about why he reinitiated coverage of AAPL with a sell rating, it's apparent his own personal bias is doing the talking and not his actualy thoughts on the financial health of Apple as a whole.
He calls the product line 'skimpy?' I'm not too familiar with analyst jargon, but he just sounds like Venture from Ars Technica's Battlefront...
"A product differentiation strategy is difficult in a business increasingly commoditizing."
^^ Is he trying to throw people off using big scary looking words?
And yet differentiation is finally happening. Laptops, the one area where their chips are competitive, no sport 5 distinct models with evenly distributed prices from 999 all the way up to 3299. Rather than try to force mid range customers to accept a low end machine or ante up for a high end feature set, they've provided a middle ground to catch all those people who are willing to pay a "little more" for better features while not getting fisted in the a$$.
A browser that promises year 2003 performance is finally available and like OSX to OSX.2 should get dramatically better over the course of the first few revs. This is very important. I think most mac users will use it in the end. Rather than waiting for M$ to speed up IE, or stratifying mac users amongst a handful of browsers that may or may not be compatible with important web services, we'll get a standards compliant fast browser with a large pool of users. That large pool will do a lot more to make sure media content/services play nice with your mac than any other dev friendly gesture Apple could make.
The only thing Apple needs now is CHEAP expandable desktops and AIO's to give the consumer some choice at low prices, a lot more people want tower like expansion than Jobs is willing to admitt, even if they don't ever use it. When 970 PM's arrive, it should also be possible to supply 1.5-2Ghz G4 desktops, and workstations will FINALLY be competitive.
All in all MWSF was the best lemonaid we could have hoped for. I suggest laptops until MWNY, when desktops finally catch up.
Responding to Matsu's post: I fully expect apple to push eMacs and iMacs into a better price spectrum like the portables, and they might (I hope) not wait until summer. While I am still worried about PowerMacs, I'm just hoping for the best, and I'm patient. Hopefully, they'll also treat their pro desktops like their new pro notebooks and get them into a better range too. As of now, only the PowerMacs are in bad shape IMO. (I say "only" but we all know it's a big deal.)
I suppose if someone was waiting specifically for new Powermacs, they would have been disappointed by this Expo.
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Though, I think all the negative pre-MW hype helped that a bit.
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spooky just wanted apple to release a PC.....
iMacs and eMacs within a month, PM maybe at the same time....PM 970 this summer....apple word is next and boom, apple rules the world...muhahaha
He calls the product line 'skimpy?' I'm not too familiar with analyst jargon, but he just sounds like Venture from Ars Technica's Battlefront...
"A product differentiation strategy is difficult in a business increasingly commoditizing."
^^ Is he trying to throw people off using big scary looking words?
A browser that promises year 2003 performance is finally available and like OSX to OSX.2 should get dramatically better over the course of the first few revs. This is very important. I think most mac users will use it in the end. Rather than waiting for M$ to speed up IE, or stratifying mac users amongst a handful of browsers that may or may not be compatible with important web services, we'll get a standards compliant fast browser with a large pool of users. That large pool will do a lot more to make sure media content/services play nice with your mac than any other dev friendly gesture Apple could make.
The only thing Apple needs now is CHEAP expandable desktops and AIO's to give the consumer some choice at low prices, a lot more people want tower like expansion than Jobs is willing to admitt, even if they don't ever use it. When 970 PM's arrive, it should also be possible to supply 1.5-2Ghz G4 desktops, and workstations will FINALLY be competitive.
All in all MWSF was the best lemonaid we could have hoped for. I suggest laptops until MWNY, when desktops finally catch up.
Responding to Matsu's post: I fully expect apple to push eMacs and iMacs into a better price spectrum like the portables, and they might (I hope) not wait until summer. While I am still worried about PowerMacs, I'm just hoping for the best, and I'm patient. Hopefully, they'll also treat their pro desktops like their new pro notebooks and get them into a better range too. As of now, only the PowerMacs are in bad shape IMO. (I say "only" but we all know it's a big deal.)
I suppose if someone was waiting specifically for new Powermacs, they would have been disappointed by this Expo.