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  • Apple cuts prices on USB-C & Thunderbolt 3 gear in response to MacBook Pro backlash

    nolamacguynolamacguy
    iSalmanPak said:
    slurpy said:
    Awesome move by Apple. This SHOULD shut up most of the complaints, but of course it won't. 
    Yup. The customer is always wrong.
    no, just trolls, haters and tech writers. 
    macpluspluswatto_cobra

  • Apple captures more than 103% of smartphone profits in Q3 despite shrinking shipments

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    maury markowitz said:
    Maybe I'm just old, but I do not see this as good news.

    In the 1980s there was a deliberate decision by Apple management to go for the "high right" part of the product graph - that is, the high-price, high-margin side of the product spectrum. For about five years this made Apple highly profitable, the darling of Wall Street.

    The problem is that it was also responsible for the 1990s crash in Apple sales. As others came into the market with still-inferior-but-not-as-much machines, the market for high-end DPT (for instance) became diluted. When Windows 95 came, developers fled the platform overnight. And when the developers fled, the customers disappeared too.

    I really do worry this is the same thing again. Wall Street is happy, but are any of you? Have any recent Apple products seemed to be as knockout as previous ones? Is the new MBP as much better than everyone else than the TiBook was, or the iPod, or iPhone?

    If the market share keeps slipping, there is a point, I don't know where but I can't believe it's far below 12%, where developers will just stop. And at that point, everyone here will think about switching. It simply isn't about Apple, there's an ecosystem that has to be kept healthy, and there's no guarantee that Apple's margins will translate into theirs.
    yeah yeah, you're "concerned" that it's "Mac vs Windows all over again" yada yada.... we've all heard those tropes. unfortunately for your concern, the apple of today isn't the apple of yesterday. today theyre the largest and most profitable public company on earth with the best consumer satisfaction ratings, and theyve achieved these things because theyre better at making products than ever. your "concern" was been voiced for 10 years now -- warning of commoditization from cheap competitors. still nothing...the cheapies take up the bottom end w/ larger market share and apple sucks up the profit at the upper end. works for high-end car makers, and its working for a high-end phone maker. deal with it.
    watto_cobracali

  • Apple captures more than 103% of smartphone profits in Q3 despite shrinking shipments

    nolamacguynolamacguy
    rogifan_new said:
    dugbug said:
    rogifan_new said:
    This headline is stupid. You can't capture more than 100% of something.
    It means other players in this market lost money
    And? Their losses are not profit for Apple.
    the number indicates relativity to the sector. a positive number indicates their standing to the others.

    just admit it -- you dont know very much about this sort of thing, and now you're trying your best to refuse to learn. "Shame!" >clang!<
    watto_cobramacxpress

  • Apple exec confirms Logic Pro X getting Touch Bar support by 'early next year'

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    blastdoor said:
    jcdinkins said:
    blastdoor said:
    If Apple has a coherent plan for the Mac and for professional/business users, they sure have done a good job of keeping it a secret. 

    You've done a good job at being a troll so...
    so.... do you have anything remotely substantive to say? 

    Is there a clear plan that I've missed? Can you tell me what it is? 
    i think the plan as we've seen so far is pretty clear -- new laptops with touch interface. software updating to take advantage. what confuses you?

    for all the bitching and moaning from trolls and haters, i bet few are actually pro users anyway. i develope software for a living and am somehow doing so successfully on a 2014 MBP and fully-loaded 2011 imac. thus i have to believe most of the noise is just loudmouths moving air. 
    williamlondonddawson100

  • OWC announces Thunderbolt 3 Dock with ports galore, returns functionality to new MacBook Pro

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    viclauyyc said:

    I was there when apple dropped SuperDrive, FireWire, Ethernet and more from the mbp. The sun came up the next day. And I was completely content adjusting to 'moving forward' after a short adjustment. That's what Apple does. They move things forward because nobody else will. 
    It's a laptop that's way too big and expensive for the email / web browser market, but way too limited for professionals.  Of course the sun comes up tomorrow, and this laptop still sucks.
    So why Apple make the MacBook Pro so thin? Remember they compare the thinnest with MacBook in the video. Also, not too sure if a pro musician or engineer need that thinnest and reduce weight 
    why wouldnt i want my deck to be as light as possible? i have to carry it. i like things I'm carrying to be light. thinner is lighter.
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