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From Mac Daily News
"Apple sold 16.24 million iPhones in the December quarter. That sure is a lot of iPhones, and while dwarfed by the 650 million bottles of Heinz Ketchup sold around the world each year means Apple sells more iPhones each year than there are cars sold worldwide," Evans reports. "7.33 million iPads were sold in the last quarter. Apple has sold 14.79 million iPads since the product went on sale. That's rather more than the three million some 'analysts' had predicted the company would shift in the year. It means. Apple has sold 55,393 iPads each day since the industry-defining tablet went on sale in the US on April 3, 2010. While lower than the 300,000 sold on the first day the iPad went on sale in the US, that's still more iPads than the number of people you can fit inside the Yankee Stadium. Every. Single. Day."
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Apple is currently shipping approximately 366,000 iOS devices each day made up by combined sales of iPhones, iPads and iPod touches.
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All a PC person has to say is, "how much would it cost you to buy a 15" laptop" and you'd be shut down. On the windows side about $500 and on the mac side $1800. Now I know the mac is better but $1300 better?
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lazydays wrote:
All a PC person has to say is, "how much would it cost you to buy a 15" laptop" and you'd be shut down. On the windows side about $500 and on the mac side $1800. Now I know the mac is better but $1300 better?
Apparently, you are too lazy to get all the facts . . . compare all the parts of the Mac and see what it would cost you to get that laptop to match up. It wouldn't be just $500, bucko . . .
Yes, it would be cheaper, but you'd still have a PC and where is the fun in that? ? ? ? ?
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WHiiP wrote:
Apparently, you are too lazy to get all the facts . . . compare all the parts of the Mac and see what it would cost you to get that laptop to match up. It wouldn't be just $500, bucko . . .
So you are talking about how expensive it is to get a laptop without a Blu-ray player, USB 3.0, eSATA, and a HDMI port? :devil:
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I'm starting to feel that Apple has crossed the threshold on price gouging. They need to reel it in a bit. Yeah they make nice computers, but there aren't that many people willing to pay that much of a premium for superior design. However, with their phenomenal inventory control, they'll know within hours when people have had enough of the high prices. I realize that Linux isn't for everyone, but for me it is perfect. If I can get a $500 machine that isn't running Windows, then I'm happy.
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ztirffritz wrote:
I'm starting to feel that Apple has crossed the threshold on price gouging. They need to reel it in a bit. Yeah they make nice computers, but there aren't that many people willing to pay that much of a premium for superior design. However, with their phenomenal inventory control, they'll know within hours when people have had enough of the high prices. I realize that Linux isn't for everyone, but for me it is perfect. If I can get a $500 machine that isn't running Windows, then I'm happy.
I concur, especially on current Apple MBPs. I think they are ridiculously expensive compared to contemporary products, most notably the 15" model (as noted elsewhere in this thread). I'm typing this on a nearly 4 year old 15" MBP; still a good machine, but essentially a commodity item in terms of hardware in 2011.
However, the SSD implementation in the MBAs seems to be industry-leading technology.
Apple laptop sales increased what - 37%?! - year over year even WITH such higher cost machines. Imagine how many they'd sell if they came down a notch, with $599 MacBooks, $899 MBPs, and $999 MBAs?
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I'm typing this on a nearly 4 year old 15" MBP; still a good machine, but essentially a commodity item in terms of hardware in 2011.
Go find a 4 year-old PC laptop and take a good look at it...
Now flush your eyes for a minute and seek medical attention (the thing was probably belonging in the dump a couple years ago).
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As I posted on another thread, I don't think that Mac laptops are that overpriced for a similarly equipped and level of PC laptop. I just did a quick comparison of the 15" i5 MBP to a 15.6" Dell LAtitude E6510. The price ended up being $1839 less a Dell savings of $299. The Macbook Pro is $1799.
You can't compare a low-end consumer-level machine to a Macbook Pro. The MBP compares with business/enterprise level machines.
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