By: Maynard Handley (name99.delete@this.name99.org), July 11, 2015 12:32 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Doug S (foo.delete@this.bar.bar) on July 11, 2015 11:48 am wrote:
> Doug S (foo.delete@this.bar.bar) on July 11, 2015 11:45 am wrote:
> > Apple sold over 5 million PCs last quarter, and easily over half of those are
> > laptops.
>
> According to this article, if the trend holds true over 80% are
> laptops. If anything Apple should drop their desktop line :)
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-apple-took-over-the-only-segment-of-the-pc-market-that-still-matters/
(a) Apple makes 50% of the profits in PCs. Not as high as their sucking up 89% of the profits in mobile, but comparable to Intel's profits.
It would be a strange company indeed that walked away from Intel-sized profits...
(b) What do you think Apple uses to write iOS and to design those laptops?
There's be plenty of reason for Apple to keep making desktop Macs even if the line were losing money.
The issue of whether Apple would be better off moving to their own ARM CPU, under their control (but which would limit their hardware's appeal to those who want/need Windows and/or Linux) is a reasonable one. (As long as all those involved in the discussion have the wit to understand that that would be a DIFFERENT CPU+GPU, optimized for a rather higher power budget, than the mobile CPU. You'd think this is an obvious point, but apparently not.)
The claim that Apple will/should drop their Mac line (or even just their desktop line) is utterly unreasonable.
> Doug S (foo.delete@this.bar.bar) on July 11, 2015 11:45 am wrote:
> > Apple sold over 5 million PCs last quarter, and easily over half of those are
> > laptops.
>
> According to this article, if the trend holds true over 80% are
> laptops. If anything Apple should drop their desktop line :)
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-apple-took-over-the-only-segment-of-the-pc-market-that-still-matters/
(a) Apple makes 50% of the profits in PCs. Not as high as their sucking up 89% of the profits in mobile, but comparable to Intel's profits.
It would be a strange company indeed that walked away from Intel-sized profits...
(b) What do you think Apple uses to write iOS and to design those laptops?
There's be plenty of reason for Apple to keep making desktop Macs even if the line were losing money.
The issue of whether Apple would be better off moving to their own ARM CPU, under their control (but which would limit their hardware's appeal to those who want/need Windows and/or Linux) is a reasonable one. (As long as all those involved in the discussion have the wit to understand that that would be a DIFFERENT CPU+GPU, optimized for a rather higher power budget, than the mobile CPU. You'd think this is an obvious point, but apparently not.)
The claim that Apple will/should drop their Mac line (or even just their desktop line) is utterly unreasonable.
