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Apple Confirms New Mac Pros and iMacs in 2013-Forbes
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I would recommend Andy Neil’s post above as to the way this probably went down.
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Thank you Michael, and Andy. I will now politely bow out.
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That is not how all – or even the majority – of large corporations communicate.
And…clear, official and direct? No. Clear, official and direct is a titled person providing a quote for attribution. And this happens all the time. Anything else is spin. And it’s worth a lot more to me that a case of beer.
Tim
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[Jim Wiseman] “Thank you Michael, and Andy. I will now politely bow out.”
Good idea, seems to be a touchy subject at the moment, can’t think why!
Steve Connor
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There’s too much unnecessary heat in this thread. Let’s keep it factual.
[Jim Wiseman] “Better than HP’s former CEO saying directly and for sure, we are no longer going to make PC’s. That was direct enough.”
Apotheker never said that.
I quoted the Forbes article about Apple’s off-the-record confirmation of new desktops, but here I can quote HP directly [link].
HP evaluated “strategic alternatives for its Personal Systems Group (PSG), including the exploration of the separation of its PC business into a separate company through a spin-off or other transaction.”
During that time, PSG operated as normal. HP was thinking about selling or spinning the division off, but they never said “directly and for sure, we are no longer going to make PCs.”
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[Michael Hadley] “They are on record as promising to deliver new iMacs and MacPros in 2013. It doesn’t get any more official than that.”
Bull Schlitz
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[Andy Neil] “She then probably received another email back where the story or parts of it (specifically relating to new iMacs and Mac Pros in the pipeline) were confirmed to be true.”
But this is exactly the part that’s unclear.
“Apple said today that it is working on new models and designs for its Macintosh desktops — the Mac [sic] and the Mac Pro — and that they will likely be released in 2013.”
Apple would not have approved this verbatim, as there is no such computer as “the Mac” (the error I noted above). We can therefore assume that this is not an official statement. Elsewhere in the story, they say that “new desktops are in play.”The question is this: is the addition of the hyphened-off “the Mac and the Mac Pro” in the first sentence meant to describe what Apple is working on, or meant to describe for context what its current desktops are?
Clear as mud.
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[Gary Huff] “People are quoting Pogue and some anonymous forum poster as if they are speaking the gospel truth, and I’m not going to spread b.s. no matter how interesting it might be.”
And where is your proof?
It is a 50/50 chance here.
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LOL!
Still, seriously, you guys are fretting up a storm over this. Apple has always been thus (and many large corporations I’ve done work for act exactly the same). This is how they do it.
Listen to their formal official quarterly earnings calls and they NEVER talk about future products EVER–other then vague blandishments. The Forbes/Pogue/Cook email is about as much hemline as they ever expose and you can/should rest assured there will be new iMacs and MacPros in 2013.
Will they meet your needs? Will they be great? Will they suck? I have no idea.
You may not like it–the not knowing more part–but there ain’t nothing you can do about it. You can move on to Dell or HP as you like. Or, like most of us, you can tough it out and see what happens in 2013. Either way, I will be enjoying my beer.
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[Walter Soyka] “there is no such computer as “the Mac””
https://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/in-action/radical/
See Gear List
“Mac”
It seems when they refer to an, as of yet, unnamed product or, in the in-action piece, a Mac they no longer wish to name, marketing is using “Mac”
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