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Not really, although they're far more disciplined than most of their competitors. Besides the MBP they have the Mac Mini, Mac Pro, iMac and MacBook Air. They'r
by iainmerrick 10y ago
Not really, although they're far more disciplined than most of their competitors.
Besides the MBP they have the Mac Mini, Mac Pro, iMac and MacBook Air. They're just choosing to let them languish without updates right now.
They also have three sizes of iPad and three sizes of iPhone (although it's not clear whether the smallest iPhone will survive).
I would have thought four macOS form factors (laptop/desktop, cheap/pro) and four iOS form factors (tablet/phone, big/small) would make sense. They don't seem to care about either "desktop" or "cheap" for macOS, but they have big/medium/small for iOS.
I'm not running one of the most successful businesses of all time, though, so my opinion doesn't count for much. I suppose you have to give them the benefit of the doubt for knowing what their customers actually need.
- nicky0 10y agoYou missed one: the MacBook.
- iainmerrick 10y agoYes! It's weird that they don't more clearly distinguish it from the MacBook Pro. The Air was clearly their light and (relatively) cheap model, after that first expensive prototype, but it's really not clear what the MacBook is for.
- nicky0 10y agoI have one, it is incredibly thin and light, even an Air seems chunky in comparison. It's a very nice, general purpose, highly portable computer.