Comments on: The $500 iMac Will Not Happen http://gigaom.com/apple/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rose http://gigaom.com/apple/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304312 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:13:20 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2004/12/29/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304312 I’ve never given this a try, but I think it’s about time I do.

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]]> By: Peter da Silva http://gigaom.com/apple/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304307 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:22:47 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2004/12/29/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304307 A year down the line…

I was googling for something else and up popped this article, the one where I confidently predicted that Steve Jobs would never back down on “No ugly monitors on nice Macs”. Boy, was that weird… but then 2005′s been a weird year for Apple all round.

Oh well, at least I argued that it was technically plausible, and desirable, just like a flash-based iPod was, even if Steve was on record against them both. I didn’t expect Steve to drink his own blood twice in one event… on the Mac mini, and on the iPod shuffle.

This year, MWSF was pretty much an anticlimax. At the end of the keynote I was still waiting for the zinger. Where’s the media center Mac and the wide-screen iBook? Hey, Steve, 2005 a bit rough for you… or are you having too much fun buying Disney?

]]> By: The Apple Blog » Well, Blew That Call http://gigaom.com/apple/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304306 Fri, 11 Feb 2005 02:18:29 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2004/12/29/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304306 ly was I wrong, I was spectacularly wrong! Though I could try to win on a technicality, my prediction that the $500 Mac wasn’t going to occur now [...]

]]> By: xnu http://gigaom.com/apple/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304303 Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:09:27 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2004/12/29/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304303 hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

]]> By: kirk http://gigaom.com/apple/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304305 Sun, 02 Jan 2005 22:36:49 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2004/12/29/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304305 all I can say is audi vw, cadillac gm, yadda yadda yadda, if we are comparing computers to car companies… this is what I think of… general motors has its high-end… premium market cars… the cadillac and thus charges a premium price… however they also produce lower end vehicles and you guessed it charges considerable less for these models… needless to say there is nothing wrong with the lower-end cars… and no-one thinks believes this either… my two cents

]]> By: Sid http://gigaom.com/apple/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304304 Sun, 02 Jan 2005 07:58:54 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2004/12/29/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304304 I read about this :: I was looking forward to it :(

]]> By: J. Random Poster http://gigaom.com/apple/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304302 Fri, 31 Dec 2004 08:06:03 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2004/12/29/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304302 The chances of this happening are exactly 50-50. (That is, either it will or it won’t.) Personally, I’d love to see it happen, and I think you’re mistaken when you assume that any sub-$500 machine has to be crap like Dell. Remember, Dell has to pay the MS tax, and Apple doesn’t.

G4 processors are pretty cheap these days, and so are one- or two-year old GPU parts. I think if anyone can make a solid, low-cost machine, it’s Apple.

]]> By: pb http://gigaom.com/apple/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304301 Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:50:35 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2004/12/29/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304301 Your article isn’t taht convincing. Of course Apple could build such a machine and sell it at adequate margins in the $500 range. ANd don’t assume that it would be available to the general US public. Perhaps it’s education or government or non-US only. I think a little more outside the box on this.

]]> By: Peter da Silva http://gigaom.com/apple/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304300 Thu, 30 Dec 2004 20:01:21 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2004/12/29/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304300 “The reaction, worldwide, would be: “What? What’s wrong with this one? What were you doing for so long that made the others cost so much?””

. . .

Don’t be silly. A five or six hundred dollar Mac with the specs in the Think Secret article isn’t a “BMW for $5000″, it’s a “BMW motorcycle priced like a Chevy sedan“. That “$500 PC” you’re mentally comparing it with has better expansion and upgrade capability than a Powermac G5… THAT’s the “BMW Sedan” of the Apple line. The iMac and eMac are big motorcycles… this one, by comparison, doesn’t even have a sidecar…

. . .

And, you know what, a BMW motorcycle does cost as much as a modest Chevy…

]]> By: xnu http://gigaom.com/apple/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304299 Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:12:39 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2004/12/29/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304299 mini Cooper (inexpensive BMW). I have two in my parking lot and a 328i. Weird how the Ipod hooks directly up to them too.

]]> By: isamuel http://gigaom.com/apple/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304298 Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:46:54 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2004/12/29/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304298 First of all, let me say this: if I turn out to be wrong (that is, if Apple unveils a $499 iMac at the Expo), I will publicly and openly take my lumps. We can all have a good laugh as we stand in line to get one of these.

Here’s another reason Apple’s not going to do this. Imagine if BMW suddenly released a $4999 car. It wasn’t as good as their other cars, but it had the same sleek design and the BMW name.

The reaction, worldwide, would be: “What? What’s wrong with this one? What were you doing for so long that made the others cost so much?” And it would have the effect of undermining Apple’s place in the market.

They might sell enough to make up for it, but one wonders if the sub-$500 PC market is really one into which Apple wants. You guys are looking at this in a purely dollars-per-parts perspective, which is fine, but it reminds me of Dvorak with his market share numbers. You’ve got to understand Apple culture before you can understand why this won’t happen.

Remember, the 2GB $149 iPod mini sounded great (confirmed!!!!!) too. It made sense, from a dollars-to-parts perspective. Just like the Creative Zen Nomad makes sense from a dollars-to-parts perspective. But that’s not the only axis along which Apple does its business.

]]> By: Peter da Silva http://gigaom.com/apple/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304297 Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:09:33 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2004/12/29/the-500-imac-will-not-happen/#comment-304297 I think MacGilles is perhaps stating the case too strongly, but there’s some truth to it… many of Apple’s successes over the years, including the original Macintosh (which was practically a “skunkworks” project by Raskin), were accomplished despite Apple’s management… including Jobs… not because of them.

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