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"Apple is Dooomed!" Google: 8,310,000 results in 0.38 seconds

NOBODY has transitioned to an other architecture like Apple has, nor has the industry been kicked in the shorts as many times as by apple. (wholesale inclusion of GPU in the OS, migration from Motorola, to Power PC, to Intel, to Arm to X Efficienty + Y Performance Cores...and nobody wrings as much out of the ARM architecture as Apple.

It's 'the same OS' from the watch, TV, Airpods to the Mac Pro.

There is no cost cutting the top end because it's ALL the same Platform. The Top end is the same as everything else with an additional parlor trick.

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> "Apple is Dooomed!" Google: 8,310,000 results in 0.38 seconds

For the phrase "Apple is Dooomed!", including similar results, I get only 4 pages of google search results.

For "Apple is Doomed!", including similar results, I get 31 pages.

Perhaps it was sarcasm, and not meant to be taken literally.

Having to explain this to the local pedants is the most HN thing.

Your comment adds nothing to HN but mean-spiritedness.

You're missing the point. Apple's decisions and methods have been criticized for longer than many HN viewers have been alive. The OP is making a claim that Apple's decisions are unwise [i]despite the fact that it's the most profitable company evar[/i] cite: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/apple-3-trillion-market-cap-fir...

What chance can anyone else have if the Mac Pro is doomed if iPhone sales dip?

People have not updated their opinions with regards to facts since 2008. It might actually be new information to that person that Apple is now the most profitable company in the existence of the human race.

Because they got lucky by being reverse acquired by NeXT.

History would have taken another path without that reverse acquisition and Microsoft's money injection.

TBF, I'm still a little sour they didn't go the BeOS route. I LOVED BeOS.

The reason Apple is so profitable is because of the iPhone. The Macs aren't bringing in all that much money and I'm postulating that Mac will lose a lot of market share because they ditched the x86 architecture.

Although revenue for Mac is still increasing (most likely because they're making even more profit by using their own CPU) the sales are already softening.

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