And, they WILL welcome it. When you’re waiting for the next big thing, Apple can sometimes seem so slow and plodding. However, from the competition’s perspective, the Cupertino kids are always more than a step ahead. On Thursday, the company killed of their consumer/education MacBook portable and, then Friday, released a special education only version of the MacBook Air.
Apple is rather predictable, except when it isn’t. As relates to the long-rumored iPad 3, it seems that Cupertino will be eschewing the road less traveled with a growing body of rumorological evidence pointing an event to introduce it right about the same time as last year. And, like 2011, 2012 is expected to be the year of the iPad again.
When Apple quietly dropped the consumer notebook last July, the company kept offering the durable white portable in the polycarbonate enclosure to education buyers. No more. Once reckoned as the best selling Macintosh in history by market metrics firm NPD, Apple has informed resellers that it has stopped all sales of the white MacBook.
Cool things beget cool things and here’s a prime example of that axiom in action. A Mac, any Mac, used together with an iPad is a powerful combination for productivity — keep all your work in front you and within reach. Here’s a great way to do that with a lot of style.
Bacon wrapped shrimp samples and Apple’s latest MacBook Air — could there be a better combination? Both Walmart and Sam’s Club stores in these oddly dysfunctional United States both carry the iPod, iPhone and iPad. Soon, however, America’s second-favorite warehouse chain might offer Apple’s Macintosh product line, as well, or so the rumor goes.
Apple ships a new product and there’s an uproar. The fans rejoice, seeing all that is good, while the haters, well… Here we are again and Cupertino’s latest opus, or at least the first movement thereof, has caused quite a still. Though the hand ringers are unlikely to go silent, there isn’t much left to complain about after today.
Under Steve Jobs, the Cupertino, California-based Mac, iPhone, iPad and world style maker was widely criticized for being tight fisted with its money. However, even as Apple stacks on more cash — the company pegs reserves at more than $90 billion — the company’s new chief executive has loosened the purse strings and begun to give generously.
The version Apple shipped in June 2011 was greeted with both cheers and jeers. The admixture of superior editing and performance characteristics contrasted sharply with missing features, such as multicam support, backward compatibility and collaboration tools. With this release, Apple has addressed the great majority of problems while significantly upping the performance ante.
The alpha has roared and it’s just a simple matter of math, adding two numbers together to arrive at one gloriously ginormous sum. Whereas some still argue about whether or not Apple’s iPad is a computer, the bean counters are starting to fall in line with the reality on the ground — the Mac plus iPad make Apple the world’s biggest computer company and not by a little.
A significant number of the allegations against the companies manufacturing Apple products in China made by the New York Times are based on quotes and information attributed to a “BSR consultant.” But, who is BSR and why do so many people keep reporting on the issue as if Apple has direct control over what goes on? Here’s a bit more after the fact clarity that to continues to seep out.
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