For Apple fans who like to see the company’s products have the latest the greatest technology, it’s disappointing. Apple’s current desktop lineup offers great designs and features, even if it’s mostly comprised of M2 chips that are relatively dated, but when you see that, for example, the M2 Max offers the same CPU performance as a M3 Pro, it makes a customer hesitant to make a buying decision. The waiting game, it appears is now longer than ever.
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Apple today announced that its next quarterly earnings conference call will be held on Thursday, May 2 at 2 p.m. Pacific Time.
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Is it technically too difficult for Apple to just take out the M2 chip in Mac mini computers, replace them with M3 chips, and, voila, a new desktop machine for sale? If it is something they can't easily do, then perhaps there is a problem with how the computers are designed?
Is there is a chip supply issue? But surely if Apple is making good profits on both the desktop and laptop lines, and that Apple is the king of just-in-time manufacturing, there is no good reason to favor laptop customers over desktop customers?
Or maybe it is for business reasons? Does desktop purchases cannibalizes laptop purchases? But, does Apple secretly afraid of cannibalizations within its own product lines, the direct opposite of its public image when the company is talking about innovations?
I don't know. But it sure doesn't feel right.
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