$200 billion plus on hand and Apple can't

[GuyGene]

I think the point here is that Apple could easily update Mac Pro at a very fair price. I just don't have the confidence I'd be buying the best Apple can do with the current line. Therefore, I not buying.

[Fritz]

I won't say that apple is beleaguered, but the direction seems no longer to be forward.
$200B lying about? Crazy. WWTD?

[mrlynn]

The Next Big Thing is the Enterprise Computer. tartrek62:

'Siri', 'Alexa' et al are the primitive precursors.

The secret will require full recognition of natural speech, and individual voices.

You heard it here first. :oldfogey:

/Mr Lynn

[Ken Sp.]

Apple has all kinds of money, but, with all the other things going on in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, it is very hard to acquire and keep good talent.

[WHiiP]

Apple released a number, 7.89 million of "Macs" sold. This is probably a combination of desktop and laptop totals. Still, let's just say an avg price of $1,200. The Mac market is over 7 BILLION dollars. And Apple is just tossing that down into a hole in the ground. Makes absolutely NO SENSE.

Oh well. . .

[gabester]

Ken Sp. wrote:
Apple has all kinds of money, but, with all the other things going on in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, it is very hard to acquire and keep good talent.

There's plenty of talent that avoids the Bay Area for precisely "all the other things going on" there.

Too expensive, and quite a bit of unrealistic expectation about circumstances in the rest of the world (let's just highlight weather and broadband connectivity as two points, but historical circumstance and a host of other factors come into play). As if the Emperor Has No Clothes.

[mikebw]

Mr645 wrote:
Apple and most of the top retail companies follow the same rule, promote and develop and discount your top selling products. They find it better to push your top sellers then try to bring up slow selling lines.

But aside from that I think Apple has reached the point where there are no major milestones to be had in their current products. Updating Macs would be great but not going to double sales, iPods are done, iPhones and iPads are at their peak and no way to create substantial sales gain.

For Apple to move further forward they need to come up with "The Next Big Thing"

I can't tell what Apple is about anymore. Are they innovators going to come up with the next big thing, or are they about doing what has been done, but doing it better? I suppose those two things are not mutually exclusive.

[Racer X]

Sam3 wrote:
The first new Mac under Steve was the bondi blue iMac, who's retail price was $1299. This was the cheapest PC on the market.

When the First Macbook Pro came out, with a Core Duo processor, I did a side-by side comparison with a Dell Latitude (it's construction quality equivalent) and the Macbook Pro was cheaper (for the same components).

Back in 2001, I spec'd a G4 laptop at work for about $2300 fully loaded. They got me a Dell for over $4K and it was missing features I needed to fulfill my job duties, and had way less RAM.

[p8712]

Sam3 wrote:
The first new Mac under Steve was the bondi blue iMac, who's retail price was $1299. This was the cheapest PC on the market.

Not even close.

They could save that billion by patching the security holes in snow leopard and re-releasing it.

[Lux Interior]

p8712 wrote:
Not even close.

That's a really small monitor!