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Review: Apple's 2019 13-inch MacBook Pro is an excellent, inexpensive workhorse
Nobody can upgrade the SSD because there is no SSD with T2 chip on the market ! If you say “screw the T2” then you’re in the wrong thread, this thread is related to an Apple laptop and ALL Apple laptops have the T2 chip. Build a blog or start your own thread in AI forums if you have such unique and important opinions.MplsP said:
So I can take it in to an authorized Apple repair center to get the SSD upgraded? Nope. You miss the point. *Nobody* can upgrade the SSD. Trying to justify the design by saying ‘well nobody does it anyway’ is just another one of your apologist excuses.StrangeDays said:
I suspect (and have read educated guesses from writers here) that the vast majority of Apple laptop customers didn’t perform DIY upgrades. You’re confusing yourself as a DIY tinkerer with the mass market.bobolicious said:...non-upgradable = unappealing from this camp...
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Review: Apple's 2019 13-inch MacBook Pro is an excellent, inexpensive workhorse
128 GB may be small for personal use but is quite adequate for corporate use, no corporation would distribute to its employees laptops with hundreds of GBs of corporate data.
Apple sells to individuals by one, to corporations by ten thousands. Take it or leave it, whining is futile.
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Review: Apple's 2019 13-inch MacBook Pro is an excellent, inexpensive workhorse
Update or don’t update the SSD you get a second CPU as a bonus. Show another brand cheaper.wizard69 said:It is still expensive for what you get. This especiallyl after upgrading to a reasonably sized SSD.
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Sales of iPhones down year-on-year despite popularity of iPhone XR in US
That will never happen. This is told since many years, some click-freak blog writers suggested even Apple should shut down the Mac ! Services are nothing more than an attraction for more hardware sales. They are providing services since Steve Jobs, take iTunes. All mainstream services have begun under Steve Jobs’ leadership. Those never made Apple a primarily services company and never will. Some services have failed, however, like Ping. The rest succeeded. Apple’s big expertise is in hardware production in scale. Services are just an extra bonus of that expertise. And I’m also sure that with their newly announced services like TV+ and Apple Arcade, Apple will deliver also in scale because their hardware are so successful.cgWerks said:
I'm not necessarily against cloud computing, especially stuff like SaaS or cloud backup, servers, etc. But, I'm against moving to services as a too big a part of their income/importance, as that will be detrimental to our interests as customers.macplusplus said:
Cloud computing is their strategic move, as announced by Steve Jobs. So how would they port you to cloud computing without selling iCloud space to you? This has nothing to do with hardware options. One is strategic, OS-wise, the other is ephemeral, depending on current market conditions. If you claim that their motivation behind cloud computing is to sell you less capable thus more expensive hardware then you should try harder to override your signal to noise ratio.
Or, maybe to put it a bit differently, I'm kind of OK with it as an accessory. I just don't want it to become a major driver.
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Sales of iPhones down year-on-year despite popularity of iPhone XR in US
This is very emotional. As a profit oriented entity Apple of course will strive to sell more to its customers. Apple makes a difference by not strangling its customer to squeeze money but by offering choices. With the price of an XS, one may get one past model iPhone and an iPad. That is choice, not squeezing money. There is no “not selling” product in Apple’s current range, all its products justified themselves with varying degrees of sales. That means primarily Apple offers the right choices.rogifan_new said:
Except the core mission now seems to be extracting more money out of existing customers since hardware growth is stagnant. Which might be one reason why Jony Ive thought now was a good time to leave. The Apple of the future seems to be how can we get someone to spend $10 a month on x service.gilly33 said:
Well said lkrupp. Appreciate your insight as always. It’s the same stuff every year Android phones is outselling Apple. Apple is losing market share. Apple remains focused on the core mission. Mistakes made yes but mission focused.lkrupp said:
Blah, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada. The Macintosh has never had more than a 10% share of the worldwide market and it has been a success for Apple all these years. Discerning customers see the value and TCO of Apple products and are very willing to pay the mythical Apple Tax. When has Apple EVER had a dominating share of ANY market? They have literally created or boosted markets out of thin air (personal computers, portable music players, smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, etc) only to see them dominated by cheap knock-offs and lookalikes. Through it all Apple has remained true to its mission statement to provide well designed, reliable, usable products that customers like to use. Again, tech blog forums like AI are filled with comments from a market segment that doesn’t value design, only cares about specs, and wants everything cheap.mubaili said:Apple must not talk itself into believing that it cannot gain more market share. It must act aggressively, speed up the cycle, and push more variety of devices, i.e., do what they have done to the iPad line up to the iPhone line up.
