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horvatic said:

So bad for us little guys trying to save a little money with some stock.

Not really. It's a buying opportunity. If you are a little guy saving, you should be looking 1-5 years out - at least. Otherwise your cash should be in something super stable like treasury notes. Unfortunately, I bought a few shares last week, so I won't get quite as good a value. But in 5-10 years today's hiccup will be long forgotten.

goldenclaw said:
This is a really good idea. They should set up as a loss leader, and provide some type of limited yet fully functional version on all Macs for free. This would introduce a wide range of people to the platform, and if they become interested in distributing apps they can buy a developer version.

Microsoft has Access as part of Office. Apple should have FileMaker as part of their standard app suite. Seems obvious.

FileMaker had Bento (a stripped down version of FileMaker Pro) for a little while, but killed it a few years ago.

This appears to be a machine destined to make no one truly happy. "Pro" covers a very diverse set of users. Some require super high-end monitors - but not a lot of CPU or RAM; others need all the RAM & CPU power they can get, but don't care about the monitor. This machine seems "good-enough" for a wide variety of users, but not optimized for any specific user. As has been mentioned, purchasing departments from large organizations will probably be satisfied - it has "Pro" stamped on it, and offers some configurability, but not too much. But I don't see many people who prefer to spec out a machine optimized for their specific use case to be happy - especially, smaller pros & semi-pros who are cost conscious.

linkman said:

And Google needs to enter the money-losing space of streaming music for what reason?

Because the listeners are the product. Couple all the information Google gathers about your web browsing & search behavior with what you listen to, and you have a better profile for marketers to use.

VRing said:

Apple's next Mac mini doesn't need any gimmicks or fancy design. Just make it small, competitively priced and useful.

I'm beginning to think Apple has forgotten how to do that. "Simple" doesn't seem to be in their vocabulary anymore.