On the Sad State of Macintosh Hardware

Re:On the Sad State of Macintosh Hardware by jnwatson on Thursday June 14, 2018 @01:21PM (#17313338)

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Apple needs to sell off Macintosh. Their lack of focus on Mac hardware has cost them hundreds of millions of dollars, which for a normal company would be a big deal, but is rounding error for Apple.

I bet they could easily sell 1,000,000+ units of 2015 Macbook Pro laptops with 32GiG RAM and an updated processor/chipset/graphics.

I don't think it is a coincidence that 2015 was their peak unit sales for Mac [1]. 2017 was down from 2015 by 1.3 million units.

1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/276308/global-apple-mac-...

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Re:On the Sad State of Macintosh Hardware by zorkbonker99 on Thursday June 14, 2018 @01:36PM (#17313526)

As the other person mentioned, since 2012, as they've gotten anti-consumer and anti-repair, and anti-developer, I'm in a holding pattern. I would only buy new MacBook Pro in a dire emergency.

Upgrading is now something you do to avoid disaster, not to achieve delight/happiness.

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Re:On the Sad State of Macintosh Hardware by unclebucknasty on Thursday June 14, 2018 @01:41PM (#17313587)

>Apple needs to sell off Macintosh

My immediate thought was that Apple values control of its ecosystem and Mac hardware figures into this. So, it seems unlikely that they would sell it off.

That got me thinking "what business has Apple actually sold off in its modern era?" I can't think of one.

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