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I hear iPhone 8 may see the prodigal return of the headphone jack - you heard it here first guys

rogifan_new said:

WTF does a stand alone monitor have to do with platform and stickiness? What benefit does Apple have to being in the display business? It makes as little sense as Apple selling a stand alone television set.

A stand alone monitor has everything to do with platform and stickiness - it is all about designing an ecosystem of products that work seamlessly with each other, irrespective of whether you lose a few dollars on one or the other ... you offer the platform, and people buy into the platform. Do you think BMW make money selling custom boot bags for every different model (and stocking them, and storing them)??? No way - but they offer them, because that is what serious companies offer for their customers: an ecosystem that works.

Steve Jobs often commented this as the defining feature of Apple:  that Apple was unique in providing the interface every step of the way from the mouse through the monitor to the OS. And only Apple did that. No longer it seems - you can't even buy something as basic as an Apple monitor anymore - they've given up the the brand to LG - hopeless. Tim Cook doesn't get the basics, and neither alas do you, rogifan. 

Design dept could probably have designed a new Apple monitor in less time than it took to put the book together. I don't mind the book - but it seems priorities are all wrong at Apple these days. Now we have a nice book, and a crappy looking monitor with LG written on the front. The whole thing is just an embarrassment to Apple. 

Maybe Apple should stop making keyboards too - too much trouble ... just buy a Mac and add your own keyboard from Logitech.  Who needs those pesky 'entitled' customers ... Heck - why should Apple make a mouse anymore either? After all, Logitech makes them too. Of course, there is the small itsy bitsy issue of Steve Jobs touting the unique advantage of Apple being able to seamlessly integrate hardware and software, at every stage of the user experience ... and that only Apple can do this ... that THAT is Apple's unique advantage. Ummm - maybe somebody forgot that. Oopsy bad. 

dws-2 said:

The PC market is rapidly changing, in part because Intel has slowed down. I think the larger factor is just that most people don't really need a faster computer anymore, so they keep their existing computers for a lot longer.

You conception of  the world may be inverted:   people keep their computers for much longer because tech advances in processor speeds have stagnated ... not because they don't need a faster computer. The simple fact is that significantly faster mainstream computers are not available ... and the only real area to see gains is in multi-processing ... and unless you need a 20000 processor computer, that's not very helpful for most people.