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Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch

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Re: Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch

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Post by treetalker »

furyofantares wrote: post #43
longislandguido wrote: post #8

Tahoe/iOS26 are still the most godawful buggy pieces of software Apple ever created. I counted 0 net improvements and countless new bugs. Apple is having their Windows ME moment. It doesn't matter how much cheap hardware you throw at the unwashed masses. It's all about the software they would say. The chickens have come home to roost.

> Tahoe/iOS26 are still the most godawful buggy pieces of software Apple ever created. What is everyone seeing that I'm not? I like Tahoe/iOS26, I haven't noticed regressions with it.

Start noticing all the text on top of text (caused by "liquid glass"). Then please don't hate me for pointing it out to you.

Re: Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch

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Post by tim333 »

amluto wrote: post #37
bombcar wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Tahoe/iOS26 are still the most godawful buggy pieces of software Apple ever created. Someone hasn't been around for very long in the Apple era, not even counting things before NexT took over.

Indeed. In the NT 4.0 era, pre-Mac OS X, it was fun to watch Mac fans extoll the virtues of their OS while rebooting multiple times per day :)

I remember taking my Mac OS 7 laptop to the dealer because it wouldn't start up and they said it had crashed 273 times. It was a few months old.

Re: Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch

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Post by tim333 »

zoogeny wrote: post #86

Part of me thinks this is a bad sign for Apple. They have always been a premium brand. I'm not a business major, but it just feels like a bad thing when premium enters low-end markets. But on the other hand, this is kind of the culmination of them owning their hardware stack. They can avoid the commoditization race to the bottom since they are the exclusive owners of a significant amount of their hardware vertical, F…

It's not really that low end though. Cheap Windows laptops and Chromebooks start at less than a third of the price. It's more mass market.

Re: Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch

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Post by cianuro_ »

zoogeny wrote: post #86

Part of me thinks this is a bad sign for Apple. They have always been a premium brand. I'm not a business major, but it just feels like a bad thing when premium enters low-end markets. But on the other hand, this is kind of the culmination of them owning their hardware stack. They can avoid the commoditization race to the bottom since they are the exclusive owners of a significant amount of their hardware vertical, F…

They dominate the premium market.

Tim Cook, as CEO of a public company, is incentivized to deliver shareholder value.

Entering this market with a good product does just that.

Beyond that, this is an entry point for people to use Apple products. It can be bridge to get this consumer to buy more premium hardware and software later on.

Re: Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch

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Post by nickthegreek »

cianuro_ wrote: post #94
zoogeny wrote: post #86

Part of me thinks this is a bad sign for Apple. They have always been a premium brand. I'm not a business major, but it just feels like a bad thing when premium enters low-end markets. But on the other hand, this is kind of the culmination of them owning their hardware stack. They can avoid the commoditization race to the bottom since they are the exclusive owners of a significant amount of their hardware vertical, F…

They dominate the premium market. Tim Cook, as CEO of a public company, is incentivized to deliver shareholder value. Entering this market with a good product does just that. Beyond that, this is an entry point for people to use Apple products. It can be bridge to get this consumer to buy more premium hardware and software later on.

it’s also other gateway to sell subscription services.

Re: Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch

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Post by vlozko »

treetalker wrote: post #91
furyofantares wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Tahoe/iOS26 are still the most godawful buggy pieces of software Apple ever created. What is everyone seeing that I'm not? I like Tahoe/iOS26, I haven't noticed regressions with it.

Start noticing all the text on top of text (caused by "liquid glass"). Then please don't hate me for pointing it out to you.

I was seeing this in the Xcode debugger. Didn’t realize this was a Tahoe issue, not Xcode.

Re: Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch

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Post by bigyabai »

kube-system wrote: post #71
nickjj wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The competition at this price point is weak. Is it though? 6 months ago for $575, I picked up a 15" 1080p IPS display laptop with an AMD Ryzen 7 6800H (8 cores / 16 threads), 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, Radeon 680M iGPU that can use up to 8 GB VRAM and a 1 TB NVME SSD with a backlight keyboard, a bunch of USB ports and HDMI port. It weighs the same as a MBP and comes with a 2 year manufacturer warranty. It's upgradable to 6…

All of those specs are orthogonal to the gripes people are referring to when they call a laptop a "plastic shitbox"

Apple sold high-quality plastic laptops for a very long time, so evidently there's something there.
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