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Apple's new 16-inch MacBook Pro reveals its future direction
Apple did prioritize iPad development to own that new market, and its really important for the company that it did. iPad installed base is about 4x the Mac, unit sales are about 2x and revenues are about 80% of the Macs.entropys said:I would say there was a hiatus in MacBook updates too. And it has to have been some internal political reason for the long gaps between Mac updates that don’t reflect parts availability. Other companies have had no trouble regularly updating their machines. The only computing tool that Apple has regularly updated for the last five years or so is the iPad. Like this iPad Pro I am typing on.
anyway, my point was not updating some Mac models has nothing to do with the importance of the 15 inch MBP, which is what DED was implying.
Most Macs sold are notebooks. So yes, Apple has prioritized iPad and MacBook Pros and that's why they are both updated regularly while other models have grown a bit cold between refreshes. Apple is still organized like a startup. It's getting to the size where it can increasingly do more, and we are now seeing it do more, broadly, addressing niche but important markets like the high end desktop.
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Apple's new 16-inch MacBook Pro reveals its future direction
Yes thank you for catching that.klinuxmac said:I normally love your analysis and evaluation of Apple’s directions and design decisions, but you wrote an entire section on the keyboard “fiasco”, but you mis-identified the keyboard in question. The controversy was about the butterfly keyboard, not the scissor keyboard.
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Apple's new 16-inch MacBook Pro reveals its future direction
I like mechanical keyboards too. At the same time, and often from the same mouths, I also hear how incredible these flat membrane keypads are for tablets.javacowboy said:DED and many other Apple pundits have blinders on when dismissing just how much of a debacle the various iterations of butterfly switch keyboard have been.Just to be clear, aside from a few initial instances of errand keypresses (ex: asssess instead of assess), I've had no issues with actual defects with my late 2016 MacBook Pro keyboard.However, the experience has been absolutely dreadful while every keypress for years has registered correctly.I own two mechanical keyboards with Cherry MX Clear switches. Going back between my external and internal keyboard has been absolutely jarring.There's a massive difference between half a millimetre of key travel and probably several millimetres of key travel on a mechanical keyboard. I find typing on this thing so incredibly unpleasant that I can't use it for more than a few forum posts or quick emails.Once the latest model is available at the Apple Store I'll try out the keyboard. I really hope they fixed it for good this time!
So the whole range of opinions are there, and not all of them matter. When you look at sales figures, that shows what's really happening, vs the imagination of what's happening when you read the Wall Street Journal or various blogs telling us butterfly is "dysfunctional and inherently flawed," rather than just a design some people don't prefer. -
Apple's new 16-inch MacBook Pro reveals its future direction
Yes that's the point: It's easy to line up words.henrybay said:Quote: ‘To blogger critics who have never done anything apart from writing their opinions on a subject, the solutions are simplistic: stop making light and thin machines, go back to using a keyboard from 2015, and add more RAM! Also, be faster with less heat and don't spin those fans up!’
It turns out that the solutions WERE quite simplistic - stop making such a thin and light machine, go back to using a scissor keyboard with a decent amount of travel, and add more power while addressing the heat issues.’
It was Apple who complicated things by pursuing its silly ‘thin at all costs’ mantra which undermined a generation of Macbooks. Now, with the new MacBook Pro, they are back on track
As far as Apple "complicating things" with light and thin MacBooks, Apple sold virtually all of the premium notebooks globally, and made all of the money in PCs. It may be that some bloggers helped to disparage Apple's brand and butterfly itself, but there is no evidence that Mac sales declined perceptibly due to this. So that take is just wrong unless you think your word play and ideological stance is worth more than $25 billion across each of the last three years of butterfly-Armageddon.
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Counterfeit iPhone, iPad trafficking scheme cost Apple more than $6M
If you use stolen parts and load up a stolen firmware on them, it would be pretty easy to pass it off as a genuine product that was broken and needed to be replaced.fred1 said:“ How the fakes passed Apple scrutiny is unknown, but the firm estimates it exchanged goods worth more than $6.1 million.”Unknown and unbelievable. How could Apple take them for exchange with a new phone without even the simplest verification? I hope they’ve learned their lesson.
