Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again

Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by romaaeterna on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @06:18PM (#20569771)

I have an pre-touchbar macbook pro on my desk that I've been using as an in-place workstation. For some reason, I pulled it out of its place and opened it up this past week, and I was blown away by the improved typing experience.

I think that I'll be upgrading back to the old one going forward.

And I promise that the next laptop I buy (or my company buys for me) won't have a touch bar or a butterfly keyboard.

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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by vanilla_nut on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @10:35AM (#20574717)

I used a 2017 at work for a year and eventually decided to move back to a 2015 -- I just couldn't do the keyboard any more.

I also recently purchased a refurbished 2015 with top tier specs as a personal laptop.

Apple has definitely lost out on thousands of dollars of revenue from just me due to the touchbar/butterfly keyboard feel/butterfly keyboard reliability/usb-c only decisions. And don't even get me started on my inability to replace my iPhone SE with a decent, small phone.

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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by foobarian on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:36PM (#20570315)

Devs at our company are starting to flee to Dell/Linux. Nice keyboards, screens and 64GB of RAM.

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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by romaaeterna on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:56PM (#20570450)

It's bizarre to me that Apple has never understood that computers are a highly recommended product. The reason that Apple laptops are popular is that the tech crowd is highly loyal and recommends macs to all their friends, parents, grandparents, when asked. And the tech crowd provides every hardware forum in existence with lots and lots of free Apple advertising.

It was never about Apple having better marketing. It was about Apple owning tech loyalty.

When the macbook is no longer the favored dev machine, Apple is going to lose a lot of market share.

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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by jimbokun on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @11:11AM (#20575017)

This was an early harbinger of Apple's return to prominence:

http://www.paulgraham.com/mac.html

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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by privateSFacct on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @09:13PM (#20570862)

We’ve gone dell and lenovo - not amazing but the gap is much smaller I think

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