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Unit sales and revenue for notebooks fell for Apple from 2015 to 2016. It picked back up in 2017, but not enough to bring it back to 2015 levels. That suggests
by torstenvl 9y ago
Unit sales and revenue for notebooks fell for Apple from 2015 to 2016. It picked back up in 2017, but not enough to bring it back to 2015 levels.
That suggests that the shitty keyboard (which improved mildly in 2017) is a not insignificant factor at the margins.
- yequalsx 9y agoLaptop sales have been declining overall since 2011. I’m not sure looking at unit sales declining is enough evidence that they have made a mistake. I got no dog in this fight. I don’t care either way but it seems foolish to think they haven’t thought things through. If they made a mistake, and they quite possibly did, they’ll try to correct it. In general assuming that personal tastes are normative can lead to incorrect conclusions. Put another way, Apple has way more data points to inform their decisions than you or I. Doesn’t mean they get right though.
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- JustSomeNobody 9y agoWell, Apple has given themselves an "out" recently by saying that "Jony's back!!!" Maybe, they'll change their minds on some of their recent design decisions.