“Daring Fireball blogger John Gruber is one of the best-sourced Apple writers on the planet. So when he declares something, we listen,” Dan Frommer reports for Silicon Alley Insider.
Gruber says Apple’s iPod touch and new MacBook lines are on fire:
• From yesterday, via his blog: “my sources indicate the Touches are selling nearly as well as the Nanos this year, despite being much more expensive.”
• From Wednesday, via his blog: “It’s only going to take a few weeks for us to get Apple’s results from this quarter, at which point we’ll find out that the new MacBooks are selling like hotcakes.”
• From Dec. 6, via Twitter: “From what I’ve heard, the new MacBooks are selling at an unprecedented pace. Insanely popular.”
Full article here.
As opposed to Zunes, which are selling like snotcakes.
Snot Cake? Who’s ever heard of a snot cake?
-Willy Wonka
Zune? Who’s ever heard of a Zune?
Isn’t a snot cake what happens after a weekend long coke binge?
Amen to that – I was just in a store in the DC area and the store manager (who i’ve known for years) told me the same thing. the new macbooks are flying off the shelf.
Zune got pwned! snotcake! ha ha!
i have only a few observations, but they seem to be selling well in my area.
mind you, every time someone sees mine they tell me that they heard they weren’t selling, since everyone wants firewire.
…then they ask me what firewire is. 🙁
I live near an iHop…I hope the new Apple products sell more than that.
just my $0.02
@cubert
Just finished my last grad school exam/presentation. I did a lot of coke, diet coke, and heavy duty coffee to make it happen. But the by product wasn’t snot. And it wasn’t exactly in “cake” form.
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This news does not surprise me at all.
I work in a low wage sector.
At a staff meeting yesterday, one co-worker told me she had just bought a MacBook for her son (first Mac), and is so impressed, she is getting one for herself right away.
This is someone who uses the same laptop for work as well as home. No hesitation in switching after seeing her son’s machine.
Another co-worker, sitting in front of his HP laptop, chimed in to say he will also be switching to a MacBook immediately.
MDN word “nuclear”.
As in, maybe it’s now beyond “bloodbath”. Maybe it’s gone nuclear…
Fewer gifts, but single better quality gifts, is the mindset this Christmas season. Right up Apple’s alley. Nano’s are the ultimate stocking stuffer and boxed that way. My wife loves her pink refurbished fatboy.
The Apple Store at King of Prussia was packed last weekend to the point that if you weren’t buying, there wasn’t room to stand around. It was probably the busiest store I saw in the mall all weekend. I saw several macbooks leaving the store with smiling owners.
How about “nuclear bloodbath”.
Snotcake – so dumb I love it.
We come to MDN to get the juvenile take on the news.
I predict that half of all college students are buying macbooks. The other half are still letting their parents do the buying.
People always say, “selling like hot cakes”, yet I don’t ever recall buying one, even at the county fair.
“As opposed to Zunes, which are selling like snotcakes.” hahaha
Quad Core,
that’s because the saying originated in the 18th century in the U.S.
Hot cakes were made from corn flour and lard, if my memory serves me well, and were sold at fairs and out-of-door church events, and were, of course, very popular.
Although American in origin, the expression is used throughout the English-speaking world.
Now there’s a thought!
Most English-speaking people are inquisitive about how hot cakes taste, because they know the expression but have never tried them.
So if anybody digs up an old recipe and sold them from a stand, I bet they would make a fortune.
Unfortunately, living in Berlin as I do, it wouldn’t go down well here, as they don’t use the expression of course.
“Daring Fireball blogger John Gruber is one of the best-sourced Apple writers on the planet. So when he declares something, we listen,” Dan Frommer reports for Silicon Alley Insider.
Except when SAI declares something some of us don’t care to listen. How quickly a few of us have forgotten that irresponsible heart attack rumour stunt they pulled just the other month. No apologies even.
I try not to donate them my *clicks* since.
Poll question
Have you ever eaten your snot?
The new macbooks are very nice and much more sturdy. I set my sister up with a couple of them. I just wish they didn’t have a mirror for a screen. They are highly reflective. I put the old style macbook next to the new one and the new one made the older one look like it had a matte screen.
I found a new early 2008 MBP with a matte screen for myself. I don’t know what I’m going to do when this one needs replacing. I hate the glossy screens especially the new ones. Too much eye strain for me.
Don’t bother to comment that putting a film on the screen will make it a matte screen. That’s just ignorant!
Yes, but I didn’t swallow.
@Greg M
Interesting that some post here claiming to hate the glossy screens, and some post here claiming to use the same machines with no trouble and valuing the resolution.
Different eyes get different results?
Depends on what the user chooses to focus on?
Trolls posting here trying to create FUD?
What could it be?
What could it be?
For some the glare doesn’t bother them. If that’s the case then the new macbooks and MBPs are fantastic computers. They look great, are much more sturdy, faster, and the screen looks very good.
However, there are those of us that can’t look at a glossy screen for an extended period of time. It creates too much eye strain and gives me a terrible headache. I wish that wasn’t the case.