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by Spooky23 3598 days ago
They can't scale their "magic".

Working on the watch means that they aren't working on the Mac or the iPad. They are a victim of their own success in that a successful, well thought out, and profitable product like the watch is viewed as a neutral.

They've also flopped on the TV.

That said, their ability to execute is amazing.
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coldtea 3598 days ago
>Working on the watch means that they aren't working on the Mac or the iPad.

You do know that all 3 share the same basic OS and technologies (kernel, filesystems, basic services, lots of UI and helper code, etc) just in differently tuned versions with a different "facade" on top, right?

Or that that they have different teams on each of these devices for everything that's not shared, teams that don't even communicate with each other...

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Spooky23 3598 days ago
If everything is so rosy, why are we left with multi-year gaps in even minor product revisions for products like MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, iPod, iPad?

I love the products. I probably have $15k of Apple hear in my home. But I'm not buying my kid a 3 year old computer to go off to college with at a premium price.

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coldtea 3598 days ago
>If everything is so rosy, why are we left with multi-year gaps in even minor product revisions for products like MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, iPod, iPad?

Because the Air and MBP want to phase out in favor of MBPr and Macbook (plain) and they've been waiting on Intel to deliver anything significant to warrant a new product line for ages. (Intel Skylake CPUs in form factors and energy consumption compatible with the MBPr line have been TBD until recently --some still are--, and in limited production yields still. And previous generation didn't even give any performance speed bump of 2 and 3 generations behind MBPr CPU, and in some cases, worse). In the cases where Intel delivered, Apple did too (e.g. Skylake iMac and Macbook).

The Mac Pro has a similar story (and isn't their first priority or biggest seller anyway).

That said, not sure about any "multi-year gaps" regarding the iPad. The iPad Pro 9.7 came out in March, and the iPad Mini 4 less than a year ago, on September.

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tptacek 3598 days ago
That's an answer to somebody's question, but not to mine.
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Spooky23 3598 days ago
People (specifically Wall St) want magic.

If Cook can't deliver that, he's running out of time.

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