Fourteen months ago I wrote an editorial, suggesting that Apple should create an ultra cheap machine to battle the PC world. On that article, I suggested some specs for the hypothetical "Strawberry" computer. As technology is moving on fast, I am now updating these specs. To get the idea though, please make sure you read last year's article before you read on this one.
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Why would a non-geek buy a mac? How would Apple market it to those guys? With iLife offcourse! So you really can't leave it out of the deal.. That's the whole strategy of Apple, use really good software, to sell their hardware with nice margins on it. It's not to use cheap hardware to sell their software which doesn't have really big margins on it.
Apple would be better of investing money in cheaper and faster production, and transport. It's just plain silly that they can't keep up with demand for their products, so before introducing yet another product, improve the production process. Faster and cheaper. Shave off a few 100$-200$ of the imacs, emacs, ibooks, powerbooks and powermacs, all at the same time.
Why would a non-geek buy a mac? How would Apple market it to those guys? With iLife offcourse! So you really can't leave it out of the deal.. That's the whole strategy of Apple, use really good software, to sell their hardware with nice margins on it. It's not to use cheap hardware to sell their software which doesn't have really big margins on it.
Apple would be better of investing money in cheaper and faster production, and transport. It's just plain silly that they can't keep up with demand for their products, so before introducing yet another product, improve the production process. Faster and cheaper. Shave off a few 100$-200$ of the imacs, emacs, ibooks, powerbooks and powermacs, all at the same time.