By: Anon (no.delete@this.thanks.com), July 16, 2015 1:12 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Alberto (git.delete@this.git.it) on July 14, 2015 3:22 pm wrote:
> 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) ???
>
>
>
Me thinks the racism is strong in this one.
> 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) ???
>
>
>
Me thinks the racism is strong in this one.
