Comments on: The Money’s in Apple http://gigaom.com/apple/the-moneys-in-apple/ Fri, 25 May 2012 16:54:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Apple Blog » Growing Pains: Trouble in Paradise? http://gigaom.com/apple/the-moneys-in-apple/#comment-307689 Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:48:07 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/05/the-power-of-rumour/#comment-307689 [...] Growing Pains: Trouble in Paradise?by Gareth Potter A little while ago I penned a cheery piece on the transformation that Apple has undergone following Steve Jobs&#8 [...]

]]> By: Gareth Potter http://gigaom.com/apple/the-moneys-in-apple/#comment-307687 Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:59:17 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/05/the-power-of-rumour/#comment-307687 Emmanuel,

I must say that I do think you are mistaken in your belief that Apple’s switch to Intel means that they will be “churning out machines that are almost indistinguishable from Wintel ones“. Fact is that although the exterior design is nice, Mac innards haven’t really mattered for a while – the key is in the software, and so the processor inside your Mac won’t make a difference to the overall experience. Unless, of course, people choose to run Windows on them.

The PowerPC chips did have some advantages, and there were high points. The iBook and PowerBook G3s sported excellent battery life, and the AltiVec units in the G4 did provide an impressive speed boost for appropriately written software. In more recent times, the Power Mac G5 brought 64bit computing to the desktop for the first time.

But at some point, you will have to accept that it wasn’t really going anywhere. Although I am no fan of Intel – I’ve been using AMD CPUs for a long while – I can appreciate Apple’s reasons for choosing them over AMD. At least at the moment, anyway.

As to running Windows on Mac kit, I should think that the number of people actually doing this will be very limited in the long run, as few will be prepared to spend the money on Apple kit (note that the switch to Intel will almost certainly not bring a price cut) just to run Windows on it. Apple is about the whole package, and that’s always what you’re buying into when you choose a Mac.

Oh, and I’m pretty certain that the switch has no link with Apple’s recent successes in the music arena, save, perhaps, for the fact that they can now weather a year or so of slow CPU sales with the tidy profits coming in from sales of iPods and iTMS revenue.

Gareth

]]> By: Emmanuel http://gigaom.com/apple/the-moneys-in-apple/#comment-307688 Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:57:37 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/05/the-power-of-rumour/#comment-307688 I’m still not entirely sold on Apple seemingly emphasizing its music business at the expense of its computer business. To me, even if 38% of Apple’s sales come from music, it doesn’t mean that they should start churning out machines that are almost indistinguishable from Wintel ones. But again, I’m in the minority. For more:

http://bloombergtv.blogspot.com/2005/09/iblasphemy.html

PS: Please get a “trackback” feature. I’d love to reference some of the posts here but I can’t.

]]> By: Nick http://gigaom.com/apple/the-moneys-in-apple/#comment-307690 Tue, 06 Sep 2005 22:03:01 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/05/the-power-of-rumour/#comment-307690 I should hope so… disturbing post by Scott Rose. I just want to let you know that Jesus STILL loves you….

]]> By: walter http://gigaom.com/apple/the-moneys-in-apple/#comment-307692 Tue, 06 Sep 2005 03:08:37 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/05/the-power-of-rumour/#comment-307692 Nick – do give the Mac OS X a go … try it out in a computer lab or at a friend’s house. And next time you are in the market for a computer, shop around…you’ll find that macs, esp the mac-mini, at not much more $$ than some other box. …. cheers

]]> By: Josh Pigford http://gigaom.com/apple/the-moneys-in-apple/#comment-307691 Tue, 06 Sep 2005 02:38:12 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/05/the-power-of-rumour/#comment-307691 Scott, the “If you can’t afford a Mac mini, you don’t deserve to have an Apple!” might be a tad harsh. Not everybody has 500 bucks to spend on something…especially if they’re in the position of already having a working computer (even if it does run Windows).

So, apologies Nick, the Apple community really isn’t that elitist. We welcome you under any circumstances. :)

]]> By: Scott Rose http://gigaom.com/apple/the-moneys-in-apple/#comment-307694 Tue, 06 Sep 2005 01:28:29 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/05/the-power-of-rumour/#comment-307694 Nick, clearly you haven’t heard of the Mac mini, which starts at only $499 direct through Apple, and could be found even cheaper elsewhere. If you can’t afford a Mac mini, you don’t deserve to have an Apple!

]]> By: Nick http://gigaom.com/apple/the-moneys-in-apple/#comment-307693 Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:52:01 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/05/the-power-of-rumour/#comment-307693 I agree Apple is amazing! Unfortunately I have NEVER had enough money to by their machines. Hopefully I can catch a break and get a really good used one for an inexspensive price. Micro$haft can copy but not clone..

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