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  • The new Mac mini is a great machine, but a $499 model could serve a larger audience

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    Mike Wuerthele said:

    nht said:
    Mike Wuerthele said:
    anton zuykov said:
    but a $499 model could serve a larger audience
    And a $199 model could serve even greater audience.
    Don't get me even started on a $99 model...
    Nope. $199 and $99 are too compromised. There's a reason we picked $499.
    Not for an AppleTV like mini...and that's been possible for a few years no and Apple has made no move to make a ARM based home server or edu desktop.

    In what way would a $200 A10X 4GB RAM 32GB SSD EduMini be "compromised"?  Nothing really.  

    Of course Mac sales would take a huge hit but maybe you could make it up on volume.  It would still cheapen the MacOS brand.
    4GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage is pretty compromising. I generally like where you're going, though.
    Not when the primary use case is Google Drive, Google Docs and iOS productivity apps...which would largely use cloud storage since students switch devices a lot.
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  • The new Mac mini is a great machine, but a $499 model could serve a larger audience

    nhtnht
    Mike Wuerthele said:
    anton zuykov said:
    but a $499 model could serve a larger audience
    And a $199 model could serve even greater audience.
    Don't get me even started on a $99 model...
    Nope. $199 and $99 are too compromised. There's a reason we picked $499.
    Not for an AppleTV like mini...and that's been possible for a few years no and Apple has made no move to make a ARM based home server or edu desktop.

    In what way would a $200 A10X 4GB RAM 32GB SSD EduMini be "compromised"?  Nothing really.  

    Of course Mac sales would take a huge hit but maybe you could make it up on volume.  It would still cheapen the MacOS brand.
    philboogie

  • The new Mac mini is a great machine, but a $499 model could serve a larger audience

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    nht said:

    The market appears to be there for a $499 Mac mini, so the the only two questions left is whether Apple wants to enter that price-point again, or is capable of manufacturing a machine for that price. It certainly managed to build them right up to about last Tuesday when it finally replaced the $499 Mac mini with this new design.
    There isn't a real business case for re-entering the $499 market.  What's the advantage for Apple to trash ASPs and sell $499 machines instead $799 machines?  Would it really double Mac sales?  

    Apple is already going to lose more valuable iMac sales to Mini sales as the new minis have very high bang for the buck.

    And did Apple lose the edu market to Chromebooks or Google Docs?  You aren't going to beat $200 chromebooks with a $500 Mac when the $300 iPads can't make a significant dent.
    Services.

    You still need to show that the $500 price point would sufficiently increase Mac sales so that it's a positive outcome even counting service income.  What's more, the buyers of $500 PCs are likely not as good a demographic for services than $800 PC buyers...just like the buyers of $100 Android phones are not as good a demographic for services as $600+ iPhone buyers.

    So that's still not a good business case for introducing a $500 mini and trashing your $1200 iMac sales when the $300 iPad already exists and is positioned within the Apple product line for the edu/low end market.

    And iOS devices trounce MacOS devices in volume.  So service income is largely dominated by iPads (ie cars) than Macs (trucks) anyway.
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  • The new Mac mini is a great machine, but a $499 model could serve a larger audience

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    AppleInsider said:

    The market appears to be there for a $499 Mac mini, so the the only two questions left is whether Apple wants to enter that price-point again, or is capable of manufacturing a machine for that price. It certainly managed to build them right up to about last Tuesday when it finally replaced the $499 Mac mini with this new design.
    There isn't a real business case for re-entering the $499 market.  What's the advantage for Apple to trash ASPs and sell $499 machines instead $799 machines?  Would it really double Mac sales?  

    Apple is already going to lose more valuable iMac sales to Mini sales as the new minis have very high bang for the buck.

    And did Apple lose the edu market to Chromebooks or Google Docs?  You aren't going to beat $200 chromebooks with a $500 Mac when the $300 iPads can't make a significant dent.
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  • Satechi USB-C hub adds HDMI, 3.5mm jack & more to Apple's 2018 iPad Pro

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    MisterKit said:
    Referring to the 3.5mm jack as a headphone jack is a misunderstanding. The 3.5mm jack is a two channel analog audio output. Headphones are just one specific example for how that 3.5mm jack can be used.

    There are too many examples to list as to how this elimination will affect users. Here’s one that would affect me regularly. You’re having a music rehearsal. You pull up some Apple Music, You Tube videos, whatever, as a group is working out a song. The audio MUST be fed into a sound system for this to be useful. Okay. So I buy a USB-C to two channel analog audio output adapter and guess what! My iPad is running low on charge! Oops. Better have a dock so I can charge and have a two channel analog audio output at the same time.

    Hopefully I am making a point. The 3.5mm two channel analog audio output cannot be worked around like a floppy or optical drive could be.

    Bluetooth is the workaround.  http://a.co/d/3aTXZjK
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