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no, it is not, but they are pricing out the "prosumer" and small business and leaning quite hard into mid-size and above professional.

by n42 7y ago

cududa 7y ago
So you’re not the target market. Apple didn’t become the most valuable company in the world by making products for everyone.
- jwommack 7y ago
  When they did that they were never more than 10% of the personal computer market much less the world. Making products for everyone is exactly how they did it, with universally popular iPods, iPhones, and wearables. The two biggest revenue drivers for them are iPhones and Services(Music, Pay, App Store, etc) (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/Q2%20FY19%20Consolidated%20Financial%20Statements.pdf https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/Q2%20FY19%20Consolidated...), they sell almost as much in iPads alone as they do in Macs. Those are all services that they famously made broadly popular and target towards the average consumer. It's only really in the Mac space that they target primarily the "high end" consumers.
- fgonzag 7y ago
  They didn't? I thought they became the most valuable company in the world by making smart phones, a product for everyone.
peapicker 7y ago
In terms of relative purchase power, in 1987 you could build a "newest processor" 80386 with a then-huge 80Mb drive in a tower case with you basic setup and pay about $3,000 when building it yourself. According to my inflation calculator, that's $6,182.61 in today's dollars. In 1987, PC's Limited (later renamed Dell) 386-16 included a 16MHz Intel 80386 CPU, 1MB RAM, a 1.2MB floppy drive, a 40MB hard drive, and a monochrome video card for $4,799. We just tend forget how powerful and cheap Moore's law made things. In terms of relative inflation-adjusted dollars, many of us old-timers have already spent as much or more than Apple is asking multiple times on 'prosumer' machines.

no, it is not, but they are pricing out the "prosumer" and small business and leaning quite hard into mid-size and above professional.

by n42 7y ago

no, it is not, but they are pricing out the "prosumer" and small business and leaning quite hard into mid-size and above professional.

cududa 7y ago

So you’re not the target market. Apple didn’t become the most valuable company in the world by making products for everyone.

jwommack 7y ago
When they did that they were never more than 10% of the personal computer market much less the world. Making products for everyone is exactly how they did it, with universally popular iPods, iPhones, and wearables. The two biggest revenue drivers for them are iPhones and Services(Music, Pay, App Store, etc) (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/Q2%20FY19%20Consolidated%20Financial%20Statements.pdf https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/Q2%20FY19%20Consolidated...), they sell almost as much in iPads alone as they do in Macs. Those are all services that they famously made broadly popular and target towards the average consumer. It's only really in the Mac space that they target primarily the "high end" consumers.
fgonzag 7y ago
They didn't? I thought they became the most valuable company in the world by making smart phones, a product for everyone.

peapicker 7y ago

In terms of relative purchase power, in 1987 you could build a "newest processor" 80386 with a then-huge 80Mb drive in a tower case with you basic setup and pay about $3,000 when building it yourself. According to my inflation calculator, that's $6,182.61 in today's dollars. In 1987, PC's Limited (later renamed Dell) 386-16 included a 16MHz Intel 80386 CPU, 1MB RAM, a 1.2MB floppy drive, a 40MB hard drive, and a monochrome video card for $4,799. We just tend forget how powerful and cheap Moore's law made things. In terms of relative inflation-adjusted dollars, many of us old-timers have already spent as much or more than Apple is asking multiple times on 'prosumer' machines.