• The Mac is a business, not a hobby
• Apple hardware isn’t converging
• Apple platforms aren’t converging either
• Expect more hardware designs similar to the MacBook Air
Read the full article, in which Gartenberg explains why the Mac is back and in a big way, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
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Steve has ditched Mac in favor of the iPhone long time ago..try to get that in you heads mon amis…sorry Mac developers in Apple, there is a new sheriff in town called the iPhone – deal with it
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Dude, he said the Mac was but upply….
The Mac most definitely is making a resurgence in Apple’s portfolio radar. There is tremendous upside left still in the Mac platform & it would be madness not to pursue it to its logical conclusion which is 25% of the overall PC market, worldwide.
Obviosly the Mac can still spell chech beter than iOS.
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> sorry Mac developers in Apple, there is a new sheriff in town called the iPhone – deal with it
Interesting… Since every iPhone developer uses a Mac to create apps for iPhone.
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And now, there’s going toe a Mac Apps Store. Sounds like those iPhone developers, who already know Apple’s system, are going to be expanding their business into Mac territory.
@ acid
“spell chech better”? Really?
Ike, how did you miss the wink at the end of the comment? Really?
The Mac was never gone. Too many PC sufferers to help.
By the by is there an easy way to transfer the contents of my iPhone to a new computer? I’m using Windows XP right now but would like to buy an iMac for Christmas. Will I lose all my songs and other stuff? I’ve heard some horror stories of iTunes wiping out the contents of an iPhone not previously associated with it.
The iPhone runs MacOSX and starting with Tiger the two platforms will start to converge. So all the iPhones will become macs and the Macs will become iPhones.
“Last month, Steve Jobs took to the stage, most likely for the final time this year”
Uhhhhh…..do you really think he isn’t going to have another keynote address to announce the opening of the Mac App Store and iWork ’11? Also, possibly the free MobileMe story that hit the internets today.
Javier,
Lay off the acid, dude! Tiger came out years ago, iOS (a OS X derivative) runs the iPhone, and only you are seeing the iPhone morph into a Mac. It’s not real, dude! Take a Xanax and find a dark room somewhere. Pronto!
From the article:
“A touchscreen on a Mac would likely work as well as it does when it’s used on Windows 7.”
@Nesbitt
there are links on Apple website to answer questions for switchers
“Really?” Ugh. SOOOO sick of hearing that crap.
That’s about as lame as a catch phrase as “fanboy”…
Anyway… there is no “Mac is back”. It never left. Apple just doesn’t shove out 50 models of crap every three months like other manufacturers do.
Proud Mac user since the days of little B&W screens & floppy drives. Never abandoned it and never regretted it.
All I have to say is, really?
@Nesbitt, Senuti (iTunes spelled backwards)
A brilliant commentor stated “a Mac’s value grows with age.”
–No better illustrated than the rash of $300 G5’s on ebay.
@macaholic @MCMCXXXIV
Thank you very much for the tips. Senuti seems to work a treat. Makes me feel a lot better all my hard won songs won’t disappear into the ether. Cheers guys.
I Have Special Edition Graphite iMac G3 that was sitting in the corner for about a year… the hard drive crapped out a while back like 2 years ago..Well I said to myself.. SELF.. get that thing going… Well $50 bucks later on ebay i found a 60gig ha installed 1 gig of ram and installed an Airport Wireless card and it is up and running Tiger OSX like a CHAMP!! This computer is 12 YEARS OLD!!!! and it is solid and functional. Try to run windows Vista on a 12 year old PC… Good Luck with THAT! The Mac is Alive and well in a BIG WAY!
@Nesbit
Included on every Mac is a program called “Migration Assistant”. It will help you copy all your data from a Windows machine to your Mac. Once you have everything copied you can sync your iPhone to the new Mac.
Take a look at Apple’s website for more info.
To all the knuckleheads who are wailing and moaning that the Mac is dead, please don’t let the door hit you on the ass on the way out. I’m sure Dell will welcome you with open arms. The Mac has been proclaimed to be dying since 1984. You were wrong then and you are wrong now.
@JoeKnows
Thanks for the tip mate. I’ll definitely look up the Migration Assistant to help me move my stuff over from Windows. XP is the best OS MS ever made. Now that they’re abandoning it for W7 I don’t see why I should put up with its idiosyncrasies – it’s the most maddening OS to use – MS seems to have moved menu items around at random just to pretty it up. So I think I’ll leave Windows for the relative sanctuary of OSX where sanity prevails. The biggest problem as I see it is the lack of Windows compatible programs – OSX doesn’t seem business ready. But Bootcamp should help me through any problems of this nature.
For someone like me having one place – the MacAppStore – to buy software is huge. As a newbie to the Mac platform searching for software is a headache so having it all in one place like the iTunes store is great.
It’s not that us Mac users are abandoning the Mac, rather it’s Apple that’s abandoning the Mac and it’s open architecture for closed iOS devices to become dedicated media devices.
How soon before the MacBook Air and the iMac’s turn into iOS devices? Leaving only the MacBook Pro and Mac Pro as “real” computers? How soon after that they get discontinued like the X-Raid and X-Server did due to lack of sales?
Looks like if you need a open device in the future your going to need either Windows or Linux.