The numbers coming out of Apple next quarter will be interesting. iPhone 7 has been underwhelming and reception to the latest MacBooks Pros has been mostly negative. And if sales are on a downhill trajectory, I wonder what the response inside of Apple will be.
I hope the market punishes them for removing the ports we regularly use from the MacBook Pro so when I'm ready to buy a new one in a few years they have brought them back.
In particular the removal of the magsafe power connector is maddening. By far my favorite feature of Macbooks and they removed it because??
Yeah the devices are coming soon. I find it ironic that the new macbook pro works seemlessly with new google pixel devices, you can just plug in a usb-c cable between them, no dongles needed. If Apple wanted to be really bold they would have swapped lightening for usb-c so the new iphone and macbook pro could be connected with one simple cable.
Totally agree. I made a comment on the original MBP thread that Apple dropped the ball here by not releasing the iPhone 7 also as usb-c. I'll be shocked, and really wonder WTF, if the next iPhone is not usb-c.
They're kind of in a tough spot there, having licensed so many lightning port accessories and headphones, that many of their customers have since spent so much money on.
And to their credit, they created the lightning port before USB type-C even existed.
This looks like the right approach, thanks for the link.
However I still find the fact that I'd have to pay an extra $35 for an incredibly useful feature which apple decided to kill very unpleasant. Their product is not cheaper. So I end up subsidizing their stupidity. Or worse, their choice to not give a damn about my needs.
The removed it because it was a proprietary port and felt that the market was better served in the long term by eliminating this kind of special case. I like MagSafe, but it's not really that big a deal.
MagSafe saved the brand "new" 15" MacBook Pro I bought last week, twice. Once when the young nephew grabbed the wire curious gently tugging it. Another when my mother hit the charger with her foot and sent it flying across the room. As well with the second case it also entirely prevented my mother from taking a nasty fall from tripping.
Where are you getting that impression? My understanding that was both the iPhone 7 and new MacBooks were the fastest-selling models of their respective product lines that Apple had ever released?
It's too early to tell. The iPhone 7 did indeed sell huge amounts immediately after launch, but IIRC that's the period every iPhone has sold the most - it then tails off throughout the year. The question is whether the iPhone 7 tails off more or less than previous devices.
As self-reported by Apple according to unknown criteria. We don't know yet.
But if you look at the development of iPhone sales [1], they pretty much peaked in 2015. Q1 2016 was only a rounding error away from the top in 2015 and YoY 2016 sales are very much down. That doesn't seem like a hot growing market anymore.
I thought the same thing about the MacBook because of what you hear in the tech echo chamber. The reality is that I t's mostly bullshit -- the notebooks have been selling extremely well. The disgruntled "pro" audience is mostly bullshit.
Intel isn't focusing very well on his category of product. Most of the PC OEMs have similar challenges -- faster laptops are bigger, have worse battery life and usually shittier screens.
I'm not sure how much to extract from this article but it seems a leap to state definitively that "the notebooks have been selling extremely well" and that concerns are mostly bullshit. I have no dog in the fight as I am fine with the MBP overall, but this article cites no hard data. And the sole quote from Apple references only initial sales at their online store. That's good news but it doesn't speak definitively to overall initial sales, let alone multi-month/longer-term sales. The only other quote is from an MBP supply component company and is encouraging but ambiguous and isn't about actual sales but its own internal forecasts.
MBP sales may indeed turn out to be great and these are apparently good signals as to potential, but it'd be premature to conclude from these reports that it is selling "great", relative to either historical periods or to particular expectations, let alone that it will continue to do so if it is.
The "tech echo chamber" is really the discussion of the market leaders. It won't affect sales this generation, but look for reduced sales next generation, and the bottom to fall out the generation after that unless Apple really shakes up their development model.
I suspect Apple will continue downhill in 2017 especially in Asia markets. The so called iPhone 8 10-anniversary phone brand new design is never gonna happen. Instead we will get iPhone 7s and iPhone 7s Plus with the same design but with an OLED screen. The reason is Tim Cook is in charge, he is a supply chain guy. And Apple is going to squeeze out all profit possible from the investments in iPhone 6/6s/7/7s design, by reusing the same factory retrofitting. Its about profit margin. If Apple continue to reuse the same 4 year old design, it will start to loose its appeal as a fashion accessory, to the younger crowd.
> The numbers coming out of Apple next quarter will be interesting
Isn't it expected that many people will wait for the iPhone 8 (also iPhone's 10 year anniversary) because Apple probably waits with releasing new features for this version?
I wonder if, and if then how much, sales of MacBook pros are corellated to sales of iPhones. I suspect the correlation exists and it's stronger than we'd think.
The de-prioritization of MacOS could cause defections from all-Apple customers. Even though MacOS device revenue is a small percentage of iOS device revenue, MacOS defections break the all-Apple halo and open the door for other devices to be recommended by former advocates of Apple's ecosystem.
> the latest MacBooks Pros has been mostly negative
To developers to the hipsters they are "FANTASTIC!"
Apple doesn't think they need developer specific tools. Personally 90% of what I ever see is Apple products at Open Source conventions and developer conferences.
