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September 06, 2007 | Comments: (0)

Did we really need another iPod?

TAGS: Apple

I have to say that I was pretty disappointed by the Apple announcements this past week. I was really hoping for a 12 or 13 inch MacBook Pro.

As the company moves further into consumer it makes sense to that they would continue to revamp the iPod offerings, but when you consider that a recent report says that 1 in 6 laptops sold are now Macs, one would expect them to update the laptop line more frequently. Conventional theory says that the iPod is just a hook to get people to buy more Apple computers which carry higher margins and are very sticky.

My 15 inch MacBook Pro is annoyingly large if you have to travel (though you can use the 17 inch as a surfboard should you need to go somewhere fast) but the machine has really grown on me and continues to perform well.

Oh well, the holiday season is only a few months away. Maybe we'll see some new machines. Then we can all buy them only to have Apple reduce the price a month later.

Speaking of which…the fact that Apple is giving iPhone buyers $100 credit is genius in it's deviousness. It's pretty much a guarantee that anyone who gets the credit will go in and buy something that costs more than $100 so Apple wins either way. I feel like every product I have ever bought from Apple has gone down in price a few months later. This is the first time they have ever made good on that-probably because the exposure is so much higher with something as consumer as a phone and then percentage is much higher in relation to a computer ($500 vs. $2000.)

Posted by Dave Rosenberg on September 6, 2007 08:28 PM

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