toranaga

adrayven said:

macxpress said:

I'd say there will be a different Mac announcement sometime in October. I'm thinking Sept 7th won't have anything Mac related except for maybe macOS. I can already hear the pissing and moaning about the lack of a new MacBook Pro/iMac. Tim must be fired for this!

Exactly. Major Mac release announcement is likely in October. With full production available until November'ish, that actually lines up well..

Problem: Would Apple switch to Kaby Lake this quickly if they didn't expect it until late December? Intel says they were surprised to be a head of schedule.. Apple tends to plan and lock in chips MONTHS ahead.. so, it's very possible that even though Intel was actually a head, we won't see Kaby Lake until next year sometime and Apple will release Skylake systems this year..

In which case, I may, yet again, wait on upgrading my 2012 MBP

This is in reference to your questioning of how "Intel says they were surprised to be a head of schedule.. Apple tends to plan and lock in chips MONTHS ahead" so how could Apple plan this?  Apple may have known about this months before, Intel made a public comment about it in July- Apple may have been briefed on it well before. By the time this stuff becomes public it can be quite delayed. One thing that comes to mind from when I worked in government is that we were briefed on a solar initiative and then 11 months later there was a big article in the Wall Street Journal about it. So we knew about it waaay before even the WSJ- or at least before the WSJ was 'allowed' to report on it.  Shows you that sometimes what top tier news media report is not the "new"s.

fastasleep said:

toranaga said:

Tim Cook is not capable of running this company.

LOL. Reality seems to prove otherwise.

We shall see. It took a while for the company to go down under Sculley and Spindler.
My contention is that he is not capable of running all the divisions. And now they have taken a big hit to their image in China, and sales of the iPhone
in India are not good. And the OCD on 'wafer thin' at the expense of function.

OCD with "ultra-thin" continues. Fine if they have Thunderbolt 3 with external graphics card option. Delay in getting update out the door, ("Real artists ship"), meanwhile Mac sales volume down, market share down, means Apple missed a huge opportunity due to failed Windows 8.1 and unsatisfactory Windows 10. I am using OS X 11.4 and find it inferior to 11.3. Spotlight is buggy. I had to reboot the OS the other week due to a freeze-up. Tim Cook is not capable of running this company. Maybe Apple should buy Tesla and let Elon Musk run the whole operation. Then you could buy a spaceship, solar panels, batteries, and information technology all under one roof! Anyway, we need someone better running Apple. Maybe Trump if he doesn't win? Instead of making the laptops thinner, he would make them Yuge!

drewys808 said:

gmgravytrain said:

 I really don't understand Apple's at all. They seem to keep doing what no one wants them to do.

YES... you "don't understand Apple at all".
Leave it at that.

Hey, aren't you the same guy posting on Jul 20 parading MSFT victory banners while pissing on AAPL's cheerios?
I believe you used the phrase "Apple is doomed".

You are a piece of work.

Spare us the negativity. The poster made some valid points.