[Swordmaker]

The Wall Street Journal's Christopher Mims editorialized the day before yesterday that Apple should kill off the Mac for the specious reasoning that it only "raked in $6.9 billion in the last quarter of 2014 from Macs while making a lot more from selling iPhones and Apple should concentrate on selling iPhones because Apple can't do more than one thing and should concentrate on iPhones, iPads, iPods, AppleTV, and maybe an . . . Apple Car. Say what?

Yesterday, MacNews Network's editor William Gallagher calls Mims and the Wall Street Journal on the carpet for idiotic thinking and publishing a "Click Bait" article. Good Read! Includes a link to the original pay-walled WSJ article. — PING!

No, won't idiotically kill off the Mac
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[Norm Lenhart]

As you know, I am not a mac fan. Or an Apple fan. but killing the mack would be the height of corporate stupidity.

[cynwoody]

You have to pay to read 1,000 words of an overly-simple argument that we can repeat to you in 10: Apple makes more from iPhones, so it should ditch Macs. Sure, we can say it in 10 words, but not without laughing.

Moronic!

First come the Macs ...

Re:publica conference, Berlin, May 2015

Then come the goodies created on them!

If the Mac spirals down the porcelain chute, the rest of Apple will soon follow.

[SES1066]

In defense of the WSJ, this is a single column and columnist. On Fox Business (co-owned), another WSJ writer admitted to total disagreement the same day of the article. Me, I think that Apple will happily keep making computers, phones, watches and retain the ecosystem that can be seen as building into the intelligent house dreamed by SciFi for years. For a SF example, read “Beyond This Horizon” by Heinlein - protagonist tells phone to wait 10 minutes to give message. For a 1940s story, pretty durn long to wait for reality!

I so want a telephone that I can voice command ‘no calls except from family’ from 8pm to 8am and NO RING at all in those hours. I presume that, like my fellow FReepers, the money-bomb bombardment is incessant in all conservative households.

[roadcat]

One of them can be batted aside in a blink: he says that Apple made a mere $6.9 billion from selling Macs in the final three months of 2014, which is (relative) peanuts next to its iPhone revenues.

It wasn't too long ago (less than 15 years?) that the total worth of Apple was less than $4 billion. Now they're raking in that much in a quarter, in profits, just from Macs. Amazing! No company would walk away from profits like that.

[amigatec]

I actually read the article, and I saved a copy for later reading. It was quite funny.