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"So if you're Apple, where does the Mac fit in your product line these days, exactly?" It worries me that everyone, everywhere has been asking for a retina MBA
by rsync 12y ago
"So if you're Apple, where does the Mac fit in your product line these days, exactly?"
It worries me that everyone, everywhere has been asking for a retina MBA for about three years now, and it keeps not coming.
I'm suspicious that the "new MBA", whatever that is, will be the first step of a "mac" becoming an iDevice. It will be a "macbook" running iOS.
I hope I'm wrong.
- CamperBob2 12y agoI wouldn't be surprised if there is no Mac in a few years. Recall that one of Jobs's less-noticed, er, innovations was removing the word "Computer" from the company's name. Yes, you need a Mac to write iOS apps. No, that is not some kind of immutable law of nature, as any game console developer who works in Windows or Linux can attest. On a long-enough timeline, being in the "computer" business may turn out to be more trouble than it's worth to Apple.
- ericd 12y agoI believe this has to do with the increased power consumption requirements of feeding the retina display. To maintain the same battery life with a retina display, they'd need to include a bigger battery, increasing weight/size, and res just isn't the priority for the MBA, compared to weight/size and battery life.
- untog 12y agoIn pretty sure the Retina MBA doesn't exist because of battery concerns. It's not a coincidence that retina screens arrived at the same time as the departure of DVD drives (and so, more internal space for the battery). The Air never had that space spare.