[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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[Swordmaker]

And another article from a slightly different viewpoint. . .

Macbeth syndrome: Killing the Mac won't stop the voices
The Macalope — Macworld —Jun 16, 2015 7:00

Before we begin, please extinguish all cigarettes and put your tray tables in their upright and locked position. Because you're going to want to jam that cigarette in your eye and hit your head against the tray table when you read the "modest" suggestion of the Wall Street Journal's Christopher Mims.

"Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac" (No link, but tip o' the antlers to @lvdjgarcia and Joanna Stern)

The Macalope is going to go ahead and say that this is a terrible idea and not just because he has a head shaped like a Classic Mac.

Apple Inc. has the kind of “problems” few companies in history could dream of.

Chief among them is the constant fire hose of absurd suggestions as to how they can "improve" their already amazing business. Replace Tim Cook! Give stuff away for free! Cut out giant parts of your business!

Not to put too fine a point on it but these pieces do nothing more than show how clearly there's a very good reason why Apple's executive corps is paid to run Apple and these pundits are paid to not run Apple.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

One of the more ridiculous articles from WSJ.