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If this is true, it will be a significant change in strategy. The company has always played upmarket. Average iPhone prices have risen since the first iPhone 18
by ylee 11mo ago
If this is true, it will be a significant change in strategy. The company has always played upmarket. Average iPhone prices have risen since the first iPhone 18 years ago, as opposed to falling. Around that time, I heard Apple's CFO say at a Citigroup-hosted investor conference that his company could release a $799 computer "but we don't want to".
- ekropotin 11mo agoEven 799$ is a waaaay too expensive for something to be considered chrome books competitor.
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- giraffe_lady 11mo agoThe mac mini is $599? Shit a base macbook air is $899.
- musicale 11mo agoThe original Mac mini was $499 in 2005. But Apple had already released a $799 laptop - the eMate 300 in 1997. Ahead of its time - ARM processor, 28-hour battery life, flash storage, wireless modem card. Its curved, translucent case design (with a handle!) was echoed in the iMac (1998) and iBook (1999). It also appears to have come with a decent keyboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMate_300 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMate_300
- afandian 11mo agoI have strong nostalgia for the eMate. Yes, it had a nice keyboard (at least comparable with the era); smaller pitch than standard keyboards. And, of course, resitive pen-based touch screen. It _was_ a PDA with a keyboard though. It had a good office suite, a web browser, printer drivers, and a vibrant developer community. But you probably still expected to dock it with Newton Connection Utilities on a computer to add software and get data off it.