<story><title>iMac Pro 18-core Follow Up Review</title><url>http://hrtapps.com/blogs/20180202/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghostcluster</author><text>Some of the harshest criticisms of Apple have been coming from diehard fans in Apple&amp;#x27;s market niche, such as Marco Arment. See: the Touch Bar, the keyboards: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;marco.org&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;24&amp;#x2F;fixing-the-macbook-pro&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;marco.org&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;24&amp;#x2F;fixing-the-macbook-pro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; They are clearly doing something right.&lt;p&gt;Mac sales are down 5%.</text></item><item><author>plg</author><text>A lot of the negative comments wrt cost are versions of this: what a ripoff, you can get better components for way less money in some other PC and&amp;#x2F;or if you build your own.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s nice but it&amp;#x27;s not Apple&amp;#x27;s market. Apple&amp;#x27;s market is not other PCs, and it&amp;#x27;s not build your own.&lt;p&gt;This criticism of Apple has been around ever since Apple has been around (1970s). While the criticism has basically stayed the same since then, Apple has not stayed the same, they have grown. Their products have improved. Their market share has grown and it continues to grow.&lt;p&gt;Some people pay more money for a Benz, and other people say Hey that&amp;#x27;s a ripoff, I can buy a Toyota that gets me to work and back, just like your expensive Benz, for half the price! What a ripoff!&lt;p&gt;Apple is not in the business of making inexpensive PCs (and accepting all of the tradeoffs therein). The trends show that more and more people are willing to spend their money on Apple products.&lt;p&gt;They are clearly doing something right.&lt;p&gt;If you are enraged by their success, perhaps you are not their target market. And that is ok.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pentae</author><text>The worst part about this, is Apple will throw their hands up in the air and say &amp;quot;See? The PC Business is dying. We need to double down on making Macbooks more like iPads and focus on the iPhone business&amp;quot; Rather than realising it&amp;#x27;s because their new Macbook computer lineup is a burning dumpster fire that is almost universally reviled.</text></comment>
<story><title>iMac Pro 18-core Follow Up Review</title><url>http://hrtapps.com/blogs/20180202/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghostcluster</author><text>Some of the harshest criticisms of Apple have been coming from diehard fans in Apple&amp;#x27;s market niche, such as Marco Arment. See: the Touch Bar, the keyboards: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;marco.org&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;24&amp;#x2F;fixing-the-macbook-pro&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;marco.org&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;24&amp;#x2F;fixing-the-macbook-pro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; They are clearly doing something right.&lt;p&gt;Mac sales are down 5%.</text></item><item><author>plg</author><text>A lot of the negative comments wrt cost are versions of this: what a ripoff, you can get better components for way less money in some other PC and&amp;#x2F;or if you build your own.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s nice but it&amp;#x27;s not Apple&amp;#x27;s market. Apple&amp;#x27;s market is not other PCs, and it&amp;#x27;s not build your own.&lt;p&gt;This criticism of Apple has been around ever since Apple has been around (1970s). While the criticism has basically stayed the same since then, Apple has not stayed the same, they have grown. Their products have improved. Their market share has grown and it continues to grow.&lt;p&gt;Some people pay more money for a Benz, and other people say Hey that&amp;#x27;s a ripoff, I can buy a Toyota that gets me to work and back, just like your expensive Benz, for half the price! What a ripoff!&lt;p&gt;Apple is not in the business of making inexpensive PCs (and accepting all of the tradeoffs therein). The trends show that more and more people are willing to spend their money on Apple products.&lt;p&gt;They are clearly doing something right.&lt;p&gt;If you are enraged by their success, perhaps you are not their target market. And that is ok.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scarface74</author><text>This isn&amp;#x27;t about the MacBook Pro. Marco bought a 10 core iMac Pro and raves about it on both ATP and Under the Radar.</text></comment>