I don't think they will run out of products to keep up the pace, if they introduce a couple of new products and upgrade some older ones.
At last year's pace (given by my example above), they were announcing on average every 12-14 days. At that rate that's 30-26 major Apple announcements per year. I'll agree that the 12-14 day average DOES NOT include a Macworld, and that 2003 so far DOES. But, dropping the highest and lowest date variances is supposed to partially account for the extremes.
So if they make 50 announcements this year, that's 20-24 more than the average last year.
They have many more products this year to announce items about:
Shake
x Safari
x Keynote
FCP
x FCExpress
DVD Studio Pro
Cinema Tools
x iLife
x iCal
x iSync
Mac OS X
AppleWorks
PowerSchool
WebObjects
dotMac
newApp (?)
x PowerMacs
iBooks
x PowerBooks
x iMacs
x eMacs
iPods
x Xserve
x Xserve RAID
x AirPort
x Displays
newPod (?)
Some of these (with the 'x ' in front) have already had one major announcement thus far. Some of them are likely to have more than one announcement (iSync, iCal, 15" PowerBook, eMacs, Power Macs).
[QB]If the 970 isn't aimed squarely at Apple then it's going to die out very quickly....
....IBM MUST sell more 970's than it uses itself to have any hope in hell of the PPC thriving. Apple is a big customer,...
... Even with 2.5% of the world market, an Apple committed to movinf PPC970's could sell a lot more of them than IBM .... especially if Apple uses more DP configs, as they should across the entire PM line and lowers prices to acceptable levels....<hr></blockquote>
Sooooo, in my little warped world, this is the perfect argument to use the 970 across ALL Apple computer lines. Put it in the ibooks, powerbooks, iMac, put THEM in the Powermacs.
<strong>Apple may survive the coming tidal wave of 64-bit Linux, because we're already on a portable operating system, but many companies in the industry will simply be washed away.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I love linux and run it on my company's servers but a tidal wave it isn't. 64bit OSes are coming but there is little pent up demand for them. 64bitness simply doesn't matter to 99% of computer purchasers.
Back on topic:
For an analysis of product release dates to be worth anything... it needs to look at more than the past three months.
Analogy 1: Predictions of movie release dates based upon only a few months out of one year would obviously be wrong. An analysis of release dates over the past 60 months would provide an accurate predictive model for future release dates.
Analogy 2: Over the past 30 minutes, food was forked into my mouth on an average of perhaps 1 bite per 32 seconds. (lunch-time) It would be completely ridiculous to extrapolate this food ingestion rate into the rest of the afternoon. The period of time used to construct the bite/32-seconds model makes it impossible to use this model for predicting future eating rates.
If Motorola is making a a lot of money on the embedded market with the G4 due to its low heat production and the AltiVec stuff, what could IBM use a low power 970 with Altivec for?
The 970 might be designed with blade servers in mind but that does not exlude that it can work well in desktop computers, unix workstations as well as in various embeddad applications, portable computers or computers with "special power constrains due to artistic designs" if you get the drift :cool:
I do not think that IBM would sell the 970 to Sun for their blade servers but outside that I think that they are happy to sell them to anyone for any use!
The cube never had a state of the art configuration. If it did, I think it would have sold many more units as a no-compromise headless workstation. (Fingers crossed) I hope Apple will recreate a silent powerhouse workstation a la cube.
I wonder if Powerlogix, Sonnet, etc. will be making a 970 upgrade chip for G4's, like they make G4 upgrade chips for G3's. Then the dream of a 970 cube might be possible. Possibly, but maybe not without fans.
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At last year's pace (given by my example above), they were announcing on average every 12-14 days. At that rate that's 30-26 major Apple announcements per year. I'll agree that the 12-14 day average DOES NOT include a Macworld, and that 2003 so far DOES. But, dropping the highest and lowest date variances is supposed to partially account for the extremes.
So if they make 50 announcements this year, that's 20-24 more than the average last year.
They have many more products this year to announce items about:
Shake
x Safari
x Keynote
FCP
x FCExpress
DVD Studio Pro
Cinema Tools
x iLife
x iCal
x iSync
Mac OS X
AppleWorks
PowerSchool
WebObjects
dotMac
newApp (?)
x PowerMacs
iBooks
x PowerBooks
x iMacs
x eMacs
iPods
x Xserve
x Xserve RAID
x AirPort
x Displays
newPod (?)
Some of these (with the 'x ' in front) have already had one major announcement thus far. Some of them are likely to have more than one announcement (iSync, iCal, 15" PowerBook, eMacs, Power Macs).
[QB]If the 970 isn't aimed squarely at Apple then it's going to die out very quickly....
....IBM MUST sell more 970's than it uses itself to have any hope in hell of the PPC thriving. Apple is a big customer,...
... Even with 2.5% of the world market, an Apple committed to movinf PPC970's could sell a lot more of them than IBM .... especially if Apple uses more DP configs, as they should across the entire PM line and lowers prices to acceptable levels....<hr></blockquote>
Sooooo, in my little warped world, this is the perfect argument to use the 970 across ALL Apple computer lines. Put it in the ibooks, powerbooks, iMac, put THEM in the Powermacs.
Then there is reality
<strong>Apple may survive the coming tidal wave of 64-bit Linux, because we're already on a portable operating system, but many companies in the industry will simply be washed away.</strong><hr></blockquote>
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
Linux tidal wave? Muaaa haaa haaaa.
I love linux and run it on my company's servers but a tidal wave it isn't. 64bit OSes are coming but there is little pent up demand for them. 64bitness simply doesn't matter to 99% of computer purchasers.
Back on topic:
For an analysis of product release dates to be worth anything... it needs to look at more than the past three months.
Analogy 1: Predictions of movie release dates based upon only a few months out of one year would obviously be wrong. An analysis of release dates over the past 60 months would provide an accurate predictive model for future release dates.
Analogy 2: Over the past 30 minutes, food was forked into my mouth on an average of perhaps 1 bite per 32 seconds. (lunch-time) It would be completely ridiculous to extrapolate this food ingestion rate into the rest of the afternoon. The period of time used to construct the bite/32-seconds model makes it impossible to use this model for predicting future eating rates.
The 970 might be designed with blade servers in mind but that does not exlude that it can work well in desktop computers, unix workstations as well as in various embeddad applications, portable computers or computers with "special power constrains due to artistic designs" if you get the drift :cool:
I do not think that IBM would sell the 970 to Sun for their blade servers but outside that I think that they are happy to sell them to anyone for any use!
970 + (silent) cube
I really want:
9x0 + (silent) cube + (latest graphics chip) 128MB
The cube never had a state of the art configuration. If it did, I think it would have sold many more units as a no-compromise headless workstation. (Fingers crossed) I hope Apple will recreate a silent powerhouse workstation a la cube.
I want one of those!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lemon Bon Bon :cool: <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
...but will we get one?