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Save Apple from what? Being the most valuable company in the world? Article’s conclusion: > In short, there's no specific reason that Apple is doing so well i
by jitl 5y ago
Save Apple from what? Being the most valuable company in the world?
Article’s conclusion:
> In short, there's no specific reason that Apple is doing so well in the global laptop market right now, but it's certainly not undeserving of that success.
Betteridge's law of headlines:
> "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
- RandomWorker 5y agoI believe save the Mac by apple, with the premise being that Mac sales being on decline for some years prior to M1.
- mproud 5y agoMac sales haven’t been declining by any noticeable amount in the last 20 years, but I suppose growth from 2014-2019 may have been close to flat. https://www.statista.com/statistics/263444/sales-of-apple-mac-computers-since-first-quarter-2006/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/263444/sales-of-apple-ma...
- orev 5y agoThe keyword is “laptop market”. There were quite a few years where it looked like they were going to completely kill their desktops (nothing released for years after the trash can), and doing everything they could to make laptop users unhappy (butterfly keyboard, touch bar). iPhones, iPads, and services (Music, etc.) were “clearly” going to usher in the post-PC future, and given how Apple usually drags people along, it seemed clear that that’s where they were going with things. Then the M1 came out, and they backpedaled on the mistakes they were making on laptops (ports, keyboard, etc.), and laptop users were able to feel like they weren’t using a dying form factor anymore.