At the Apple Event on Wednesday, Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple (if you don’t know who he is, have you been living under a rock or something?), said during his keynote, that Apple was the largest mobile products company by revenue. And to quote some of his speech, he said that, “Apple’s most popular products are mobile products[bestselling, etc.,] and that by revenue Apple is the largest mobile products company by revenue”.
Whoa.
I was reading a liveblog of this, and at that moment, I read the line again and I knew it.
Apple shares no love for the desktop computer line.
They’ve made it clear.
Mobile products are their most successful line.
If you know someone who owns a Mac, give me a ratio of how many people own a desktop Mac.
I know two people that are DISCERNING whether or not to get one of the new iMacs. One is a longtime Mac user, who actually does have some older desktop Macs. The other guy is a newtimer to Mac, about a year or half a year. He’s thinking about getting an iMac, and currently owns one 15-inch MBP. Then everyone else, including one who just switched (yay) have Macbooks or Macbook Pros. Including me. Without another supporting Mac desktop. (I actually did get a $350 iMac, 3years old, on eBay last month, I’m about to get rid of it by trading it in to PowerMax. But it’s not an official, ‘my’ desktop. I bought it with the sole intention of selling it off.)
Apple’s obviously not oblivious to this. They know this.
That’s what they’re focusing.
I highly doubt that in June or something, Apple will come out and say that they’re ‘completely removing’ their desktop line or something, there’s like a 1% chance of that.
But there is a decline in Desktop computers.
Most pros at companies or such still use desktops, but typical people are moving over to a laptop.
Personally, I’m at a crossline between saying that I could live without a desktop, or that I need one. My main computer is the computer I’m using now, a 17-inch Macbook Pro, 2 years old now, but we have a Dell desktop running Linux. My devotion to geekery would probably need a desktop, but really, in main use, laptops are really soon becoming as powerful as Desktops… even more!
But I do think that over the years, laptops will take over the market. I’m making a safe assumption here, not an assurance. Take this as 37/100 grains of salt.
