MacBooks are way overpriced. You can get a $600 laptop for with the same specs (pretty much) as a $1200 MacBook Pro. Maybe people are wising up. This can’t be helping sales.
300 should get the average slob more than enough lap-top.unleess one wants to impress those around
While the entire laptop / desktop sales have been declining, Apple has been dropping less and gaining market share on Windows sells for a couple of years in both spaces.
Tablets have also been eroding laptop sells. Now tablets are hitting a point where their computing capability has slowed their replacement rate. People are happy with their performance longer and are buying less often.
I think the market is stagnating a bit until the “next big thing” spurs upgrades. For now, the market saturation level has it in a primarily replacement mode.
The MacBooks have excellent hardware, but OSX has been behind for a long time. XCode, their software development environment is buggy, their base programming language Objective C is about 30 years old. They introduced Swift last year, about 15 years too late.
The core of OSX is solid but it is still in a nitch. What they really failed to understand was their software development tools need to be years ahead of demand not merely following demand. Not to mention their lack of testing before release. I’m not privy to their internal procedures, but ‘Rock Solid’ does not describe their products.
Maybe Microsoft’s backward compatibility monkey really forced them to produce a better product in a lot of ways. The Registry is their one big problem they need to address.
Actually you can't. Just last week a Freeper buying his son a laptop for his eldest son going to college just tried to buy a Windows computer that was as good as a MacBook Pro. . . and wound up paying $1197 for one that had a lesser quality screen (127 DPI) with a 4 hour battery and far less quality than the 227 DPI Macbook PRO with a 10 -12 hour battery at $1299. Sorry. Try again.