Maynard Handley (name99.delete@this.name99.org) on July 11, 2015 12:32 pm wrote:
> 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.

This world is full of unreasonable things......like the recent voices of a "shopping" bid
of $23B over Micron from Chinese Governors via Tsinghua Unigroup.
Do you like an Apple Air with little almond eyes ??? or your new business Laptop with a cpu
Intel China Inside (TM) ???