4 ms·

Why is Apple still selling any of this stuff? Presumably people are either: a) still buying these devices, or b) they aren't Either case can be used as a reas

Why is Apple still selling any of this stuff? Presumably people are either: a) still buying these devices, or b) they aren't Either case can be used as a reason not to bother updating them. I'm running a 2012 AMD rig at work with GTX 650 Ti and four displays, and at home a late 2012 Core i5 MacBook Pro Retina, and I don't feel compelled for technical reasons to upgrade to anything faster. It's not like a new Mac or PC will play streaming movies any better. I'm actually glad to see the end of needing to upgrade every few months.

snambi 8y ago
In my company IT upgrades the laptops. Most people hate it, but IT doesn't care. This is the reason apple is still selling that crap. Apple is running on Inertia. Pretty soon people will move to other alternatives.
- beager 8y ago
  That’s pretty true for me. Deploying one kind of laptop makes life easier for me as the de-facto IT person. I don’t have the time to research what kind of Windows machine would be best to deploy because there are actually hundreds of them. Apple offering just a few doors has made it easy to pick one and stick with it, although it’s pretty clear that the value of the machine considering its specs and price is pretty low.
- devonkim 8y ago
  Apple becoming the thing they rallied against in the early 2000s is a sad state for the company despite its earnings. But investors are aware that they need to get ahead on something to keep that going at least. When Microsoft’s Surface series looks really attractive to me after 15 years of OS X and Mac investment, I’m not sure if Apple really can pull ahead without a massive game changer. Incremental changes so far are pointing to IOS application-ification of the entire Mac ecosystem.
jjoonathan 8y ago
Is it really such a mystery? They probably underestimated the time and resources needed to move to ARM (or whatever substantial update they have in the pipeline) and therefore didn't invest appropriately in the "plan B" of incremental updates. Oops.
- hirup 8y ago
  It could be anything. Optimistically, perhaps they are taking the criticism of the 2016 Touchbar MBPs to heart and redesigning them to be more practical. Doesn't excuse the lack of updates to the Mini and Pro though.

snambi 8y ago

In my company IT upgrades the laptops. Most people hate it, but IT doesn't care. This is the reason apple is still selling that crap. Apple is running on Inertia. Pretty soon people will move to other alternatives.

beager 8y ago
That’s pretty true for me. Deploying one kind of laptop makes life easier for me as the de-facto IT person. I don’t have the time to research what kind of Windows machine would be best to deploy because there are actually hundreds of them. Apple offering just a few doors has made it easy to pick one and stick with it, although it’s pretty clear that the value of the machine considering its specs and price is pretty low.
devonkim 8y ago
Apple becoming the thing they rallied against in the early 2000s is a sad state for the company despite its earnings. But investors are aware that they need to get ahead on something to keep that going at least. When Microsoft’s Surface series looks really attractive to me after 15 years of OS X and Mac investment, I’m not sure if Apple really can pull ahead without a massive game changer. Incremental changes so far are pointing to IOS application-ification of the entire Mac ecosystem.

jjoonathan 8y ago

Is it really such a mystery? They probably underestimated the time and resources needed to move to ARM (or whatever substantial update they have in the pipeline) and therefore didn't invest appropriately in the "plan B" of incremental updates. Oops.

hirup 8y ago
It could be anything. Optimistically, perhaps they are taking the criticism of the 2016 Touchbar MBPs to heart and redesigning them to be more practical. Doesn't excuse the lack of updates to the Mini and Pro though.