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  • Apple discontinues Thunderbolt Display, no replacement announced

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    karmadave said:
    Plenty of affordable 4K monitors on the market. While I would like to see Apple release a 4K (or 5K) monitor there are plenty of options on the market. Reminds me of when Apple abandoned printers. Users complained but found lots of suitable options...
    There are plenty of affordable everythings on the market. By that logic Apple, could get out of every market. It's just a cop out for them simply dropping more product lines. 
    jasenj1wozwoz

  • Apple discontinues Thunderbolt Display, no replacement announced

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    techguy911 said:
    pepe779 said:
    WTH is going on at Apple. Some of their recent HW and SW decisions have been rather hard to understand and sometimes I really wonder if Tim Cook knows where the company is going, especially from the long term perspective.
    81% of Apple's revenue comes from iPhone and iPad, 9% comes from Mac sales.  The Macs and the Thunderbolt display are nothing more than a pet project at this point so I suspect Tim doesn't lose much sleep worrying about this decision.  It's too bad, Apple could be expanding out a lot more in the laptop, accessory, and services areas instead of mostly focusing on their bread and butter products.
    But the fact that most of their (falling) profits come from iPhones doesn't mean that's where they should focus most of their effort. In fact, the current iPhone climate and falling sales should be their incentive to adjust their priorities to more quickly refresh their core Mac business while they still can. 
    wozwoz

  • Rumor: Apple developing power-efficient micro-LED panels for 2017 Apple Watch

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    So they can innovate enough to update the watch yearly, but the iPhone is every three years now, and the Mac Pro, Mac mini, Thunderbolt Display, etc. is once in a blue moon? I don't understand their priorities anymore. 
    jackansidoozydozen

  • Apple discontinues Thunderbolt Display, no replacement announced

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    wizard69 said:
    Sounds like Apple is getting out of the display business.
    Yep! I don't think Apple sells enough displays to recover the development costs. More striking is the suggestion from the Apple rep to buy third party hardware.
    Well that would depend on the display, though. If other companies can produce displays comparable and in many cases now superior to this one and turn a profit, Apple should be able to as well. 

    It's not that there wouldn't be a market for an awesome new display. Despite their size, Apple just doesn't seem willing or capable of keeping up with their product line anymore. They can't even rewrite iTunes, for goodness sake. Half of their products languish for years between updates now. 
    entropystechprod1gy

  • Apple discontinues Thunderbolt Display, no replacement announced

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    mdriftmeyer said:
    kermit4krazy said:
    I'm always amazed by things like this. Apple has about 60,000 employees. About half of them are working on the retail side, and the other 30k or so work for corporate. There weren't 100-200 people they could dedicate to designing and engineering a replacement display, oh, at some point over the past 5 years?? The company also has more money stockpiled than any other company on earth. Yes, I know that most of it is overseas, but the same goes for all the other huge companies too. They could have freed up some funds, is all I'm saying. 

    Slowly but surely they're dropping more and more product lines to make room for more iPhone SKUs. They act like a rose gold phone is a big deal. No, a new Mac mini would be a big deal. A new Macbook with two ports would be a big deal. A new Macbook Pro with user-serviceable parts would be a big deal. A new version of Aperture would have been a big deal. A new Mac Pro would be a big deal. A new Thunderbolt display would have been a big deal.

    Sorry, just been frustrated with Apple lately. I still love them, but I need a new Macbook Pro to replace my aging 2011 13" that I got new for $1,100 and then upgraded to a 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM myself, but I can't afford to pay Apple $2,500 for something new but comparable. 
    Apple has 100k+ employees.
    Which makes it even MORE astounding that they can't free up maybe a tenth of 1% of them (100ppl) to engineer a new Thunderbolt display. 
    wozwoz