“Apple could be poised to ship Intel-based notebooks as soon as next month but has done little to help solution providers get ready for the migration, solution providers say. And now some may be looking to Intel for support,” Edward F. Moltzen reports for CRN. “Apple, Cupertino, Calif., is believed to be readying the notebooks to coincide with Intel’s launch of its Yonah mobile processor, said Richard Gardner, a Citigroup analyst.”
Moltzen reports, “Solution providers say Apple’s well-known focus on secrecy has extended even to them, with the company only providing minor details on the migration. ‘We don’t get any additional information, really, than the consumer,’ said George Swords, marketing manager at PowerMacPac, a Portland, Ore.-based Apple solution provider… Steve Dallman, Intel’s senior director of channels, said that while it is too early for discussions with Apple solution providers, ‘We do have a entire Apple focus team and have been sharing with them Intel’s channel programs and global reach.'”
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Read: Be patient. It’s too early to spill the beans officially, bub.
Resellers have been living with this for decades…
Wow, Apple resellers being shit upon?
That’s news.
I agree. So what they’re in the dark. Most retailers are in the dark about all products they carry.
Now some of us have been taken to special briefings in Madrid.
I can say this: Everything you think you know, you don’t.
Who needs Apple resellers?
Buy at Apple Stores!
Is there any Dell reseller?
tM – hopefully that wasn’t on a CIA-sponsored plane? Anyway, can’t wait to hear when it’s public…(the anticipation is more than half the fun).
Frenchie “Who needs Apple resellers?
That’s great! Fuck the ones who were there for you when you sucked!
If the resellers had dumped Apple when they were down, we wouldn’t have OSX today!
You must be French! bonjour!! If it weren’t for those that stood by you, you’d be saying guten tag!
I’m a Apple reseller and I’m pissed.
We were promised plenty of iPods for the holidays and still haven’t got any.
The Apple Store down the street is taking all my buisness, they get all the new hardware before we do.
Apple won’t provide us with necessary store signs and adware to dress up our stores, we can’t make our own without being sued.
We get all refurbished hardware and supposed to pass it off as new.
Steve Jobs and Johnathan Ives came in my store and left the restroom a total mess. What they were doing in there was beyond me.
I noticed some of my display iPods were badly scratched.
Hey Frenchie
People who live in areas where there is no offical Apple Store need Authorized Apple Resellers, that’s who..
Most (approx. 75%) of the Apple resellers in Australia I’ve come into contact with are an arrogant bunch of twits who do not help the Apple brand at all. Remember Buzzle? Half of that failure was due to their own incompetence.
I hope they do go out of business, because it would be well deserved (and I’ve been screwed a few times by some of them before I knew my rights.)
The only thing is, there are no Apple-owned stores in Oz yet to help them along their way to retail oblivion.
Yea, MW=anti… I’m anti-Apple reseller in Australia.
“Apple… has done little to help solution providers get ready for the migration…”
If they would revisit Steve’s keynote announcing the use of Intel CPUs, they’d see that there is NOTHING TO PREPARE FOR!! Existing G4/G5 aps will run just fine. There is nothing to say or worry about. The resellers are not hurting any more than Apple’s own retail stores. But, the last I saw, the Apple stores have no problem selling iMacs, PowerMacs (many having a hard time keeping Quads in stock) as well as the laptops.
It seems more likely that a few retailers are having a difficult time with their own patience, just like the rest of us. There is NO WAY that they will get any heads up on what is to come. Apple has never done it before, no reason to do it now.
This is probably the main reason apple doesn’t let em in on anything, they’ll probably spill the beans before making it to damn coffee maker!
What’s a reseller?
I buy at http://www.apple.com
To resellers:
“I crap bigger than you.”
Grumpy– that’s quite a statement about the bathroom thing. What happened?
The resellers don’t know about the new intel pb’s when it hasn’t officially been announced by Apple (that they’re available). I suppose that they might need to know, but that the lead time from announcement to availability might be some time anyway.
The pipeline for products usually dries up before new models come out. Haven’t heard that happening yet on any of these “hot” newswires.
So what’s the beef?
I dont give a Foccacia
Well R it was like this,
You see Mrs. MacGrumpy, she’s all neat and such, so she goes and cleans my store every morning, leaves it spotless for the little amount of Mac customers we still have left.
Well one day I’m minding the store because I had to lay off my employees because the local Apple Store is sucking all my buisness, but you know that.
You see I refuse to give up, I’ll run this store until I’m bankrupt if I have too. Well apparantly this got up the chain at Cupertino and well I guess Steve and Johnathan decided to pop in.
Here’s a picture, it was taken a few ears ago obviously.
Anyway, we have a store bathroom that’s designed for only one person really, designed before the code requirements that you have to have two, one handicapped accessible, well anyway it’s a combination store room and bathroom. So there is shelves, mops, brooms and other such things as well as a sink for cleaning the store.
Well Mrs. MacGrumpy, she keeps the bathroom spotless, and had it all clean, neat and tidy. Good of her because SJ and JI popping in all of sudden like and immediatly wanting to use the bathroom.
Well I said “Sure go ahead” while I ran to the back to make some phone calls to all our Mac clients to get to the store.
Well anyway I was busy dialing and talking for about a hour, looking out the back to see if they came out and just making more and more calls. It never dawned on me why I didn’t see both of them at once. I just figured one was inside and the other wandering around out of site.
So finally I hear the bathroom door slam and here’s both of them in disarray, like they took a shower in the bathroom or something, but they pulled themselves together when they realized i was staring at them.
So anyway I didn’t look in the bathroom, because i figured that long must have been a whopper of a number #2, you know, big smell, and like i said before our bathroom wasn’t quite up to code yet so our bathroom fan wasn’t installed.
So we chatted awhile, took the picture you see and our Mac family came and paid a visit. Then they were off. So we closed shop that day and partied. never looking in the bathroom.
Well the next morning, Mrs. MacGrumpy, see comes to clean the store and SCREAMS. So I come running and she’s staring at the bathroom.
So I take a look and holy $&%*&!! it was a mess!! There was half eaten rolls of toilet paper on the floor, the mop was taken apart and the string used to tie someone to the shelves apparantly. The broom handle was broken and well SOILED on one end. The sink was filled with water and hair was floating on top. There was a couple of unflushed condems in the toilet.
Take this as you will, I have no proof, just that missing hour of course this is a total work of fiction but it was fun regardless.
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Geezz, resellers, will your petty whining ever end?
If you are not informed about Apple products, WECOME TO OUR WORLD!
If you are not happy about Apple stores stealing revenue, then you totally suck as a businessperson! There is very little profit in computers anyway. The profit is in accessories. Sell the crap that the Apple stores don’t like a large assortment of SOFTWARE and ACCESSORIES. Apple just carries the high-end line and very little selection. If I had the capital, I’d open a huge Mac Software & Accessory store.
Stop you’re damn bitchin’ already and take action!!
MacGrumpy II– are you 12?
I’d keep my secrets from the resellers too, if I were Apple. Those guys leak like a sieve. Every time they find out anything, or receive a shipment, they’re instantly on the phone with ThinkSecret and their ilk. Of course, not all of them do, but it only takes one leaky reseller to make them all a secrecy risk.
And Jerry T, you moron, this has nothing to do with the French. Besides, it was the French, you moron, who beat the British for us so we wouldn’t have to pay a 1% tax on tea. You probably forgot who they said General LaFayette was in American History class (although I’ll bet the average Frenchman remembers), so I won’t trouble you with more facts. Moron.
I live in an area where the is not an Apple store, and not likely there will be.
Even if there was one, they would have to prove that they are better representatives of Apple than the reseller that I use.
That would be hard.
Computer Village
Rapid City South Dakota
Close. I’m actually 11.
I like to poop.
MacGrumpy—
You’ve been visiting too many porn sites. Your fantasy if funny I will admit. And you link to the picture is convincing (ok, not really).
Anyway, there aren’t enough Apple Stores to serve everyone in this country (USA), much less the rest of the world. So, Apple to should not totally diss the resellers. However, as of now, it is only those cities where you can find an Apples Store that resellers have a problem. In defense of Apple, they had to do something. They couldn’t get the run of the mill electroncs/computer stores to to present Apple products on an even level with the HPs/Sonys/Acers/ et al. They HAD to open their own stores. I am sorry for the Apple faithful stores that are getting stomped on, but reality is not always kind. I recommend a book: “Who Stole My Cheese”. The world changes at a speed that screws a lot of good people. Figure out how to ad value and keep your customers, or find another business. Griping won’t change Apple’s determination to provide a great shopping experience of prospective customers.