“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.
I can see why. This is an awesome combination for many of us who can’t use an iPhone due to its ties to ATT.
I bet hot cakes taste alot like fried dough does today. And, yes, that’s what they sell at country fairs nowadays.
I would like to ask Apple to start emphasizing the iPod touch more. Right now it seems to be treated like a stepchild. Many of us cannot use an iPhone because we have strong reasons for staying with another carrier (in my case Verizon), or we don’t want to pay the monthly cost of owning an iPhone. Or both! The touch lets us have most of the iPhone features that are so very nice. I mean the wifi access, the mail, the calendar, the applications, the games, etc. Let’s hear it for the iPod touch!!
The touch has been seen quite an emphasis in Apple ads when it comes to gaming, so Apple is putting a push on the touch.
I can never resist this link for the hot cakes sketch from the fantastic Brit comedy “Big Train”
ref=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JibxHpXqAfc&feature=related”>Selling like hot cakes</a>
Also see – Big Train Small Train
Damn you Simon Pegg …
Apple brings greater brand value to AT&T;, not the other way around. Poor quality of service wouldn’t be blamed on the lesser brand, it would perceived as a weakness to the more superior, Apple.
The iPhone is forcing At&T;to upgrade its cultural value and services to maintain its position in the market. We all know, Apple doesn’t need them, Apple could easily release an open phone to would work on a 3g network. Increasing the ubiquity of the iPhone doesn’t harm Apple as long as they continue to innovate the product.
My last post got posted to the wrong thread, disregard. (confused)
“We come to MDN to get the juvenile take on the news.”
Absoluterily. I wouldn’t have it any other way
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“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.”
These days, at least at the County Fairs around here, they call fried flour/lard mixtures (topped with powdered sugar, of course) “funnel cakes.” Disgusting, and yet delicious.
“Unfortunately, living in Berlin as I do, it wouldn’t go down well here, as they don’t use the expression of course.”
Don’t you lot have County Fairs (or the Brit equivalent – livestock shows, games, dances, and all that sort of thing)? Think deep fried flour and fat, with sugar — you know, good British food
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1- No FireWire with no option to rectify it.
2- Even glossier, glossy screen.
P.S. don’t even suggest that I put some cheesy film on my computer screen.