Alberto (git.delete@this.git.it) on July 16, 2015 6:03 am wrote:
> Anon (no.delete@this.thanks.com) on July 16, 2015 1:12 am wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> No. I like better a nation that try to develop its own technology and original solutions, instead
> of doing shopping all around the world bypassing the R&D stage.
> Absolutely nothing against asian people but against their crap Governors instead.

You do not know very much about the technological history of the US, do you?
Maybe look into how Francis Cabot Lowell BECAME a Boston Brahmin.