Comment by samwillis
4 years ago
I don’t believe this for a second. That would have been a completely daft thing for them to do (not that corporations can’t be daft).
I think the stagnation perceived with the Mac was a combination of distraction (focussed on mobile), lack of general invasion on desktop in the market, Intels recent problems, and waiting. I believe they were waiting for their silicone to get the point that they could do a proper coordinated refresh.
Yeah Apple tried to kill the Mac… and then popped out with the biggest jump in laptop chips in a decade. That chip effort, along with everything that supports it in the new M1 machines was many years in the making.
As well as Ive having way too much influence and not grokking what the mac is actually used for, trying to turn it into an aspirational luxury product.