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byDatbeDank ( 4580343 ) writes:
You should be buying a Mac as a fashion accessory. Gotta let everyone at the coffee shop know how hip and cool you are.
bykelarius ( 947816 ) writes:
This summary is incredibly stupid, the 4 year old model referenced is the base model, that indeed does use the same parts, however there HAVE been plenty of updates to the MacBook Pro line since then, introducing SSDs, Retina displays, slimmer builds, and current generation MBPs have Broadwell CPUs. Now for sure they are due for an update but I wouldn't be surprised to see that happen this calendar year.
byomnichad ( 1198475 ) writes:
the 4 year old model referenced is the base model, that indeed does use the same parts
Yeah, and it's still the SAME PRICE! There's no excuse for that.
byhhas ( 990942 ) writes:
the 4 year old model referenced is the base model, that indeed does use the same parts
Yeah, and it's still the SAME PRICE! There's no excuse for that.
Hurrr. Rule #1 of Retail: Your product is worth precisely whatever your customers are prepared to pay for it.
What istruly unbelievable here is that Apple now would deliberately continue to sell such embarrassingly senescent products (non-Retina MPBs) at all. The previous Jobs-2.0 Apple knew that that the way to build new markets and new products was to aggressively kill all its old, stale ones with absolutely zero remorse; and the distraught wails of newly betrayed fanboys was as music to their ears while tens of millions of newly inthralled customers fell over themselves crying as one Take My Money Now!
Sure Cook's Apple is picking up nice easy chump change by continuing to flog such thoroughly matured merchandise. As in gaming consoles, the profit margins on Apple hardware products will improve over their lifetimes as their parts and production costs fall. However, the 2K-era Apple built itself into the world's greatest consumer technology business by selling its own image as THE creator of revolutionary must-have cutting-edge products as much as it did by selling the products themselves. Yet here is that same once-revolutionary knife-sharp Apple, gone fat and soggy, now flogging five-year-old frump off its remaindered rail like some cheap market hawker?
Honestly, when Zombie Jobs-3.0 arises from the grave, I guarantee the only thing round Cupertino still worth selling will be canned goods and shotguns, because the moment he breaks through the barricades he will utterly shred the whole useless lot of them for so casually pissing that incredibly hard-built, inconceivably priceless, and uniquely irreplaceable global reputation up against the washroom wall as these muppets have.
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byomnichad ( 1198475 ) writes:
Your product is worth precisely whatever your customers are prepared to pay for it
And they're leaving money on the table. I know of people who aren't buying precisely because there's nothing new.
byhhas ( 990942 ) writes:
A retina-MBP update is overdue just to keep customers engaged, though with the new design already in the pipeline Apple won't be bumping the current design's specs again, so everyone just has to tought it out till it ships. The 12" MacBook did actually get a refresh earlier this year, though suffers more from its too-high price point than anything else; hopefully the new MBPs will force that down, making it more appealing to the mass-market who just want a nice simple portable laptop for everyday use, but a
byGr8Apes ( 679165 ) writes:
They need to bring back the quad mini. I'd buy at least another couple the second they go on sale. As it stands today, I'm running a bunch of late 2013 minis (yes, there was an "update", memory chip speed was increased), with no plans to replace them any time in the near future. Those boxes are awesome for certain tasks. If Apple doesn't release a significant upgrade soon, the generic small form factor intel boxes will wind up being replacements, running some form of *nix (Linux or BSD)
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