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30% Revenue decline on Mac YoY

What a drop! M1 success and exodus out of butterfly keyboard probably pumped those numbers last year, but I guess we know the trend of growth there is on shaky ground.

Also, i wonder how much of that are companies not needing to buy new hires new laptops

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M1 was such a big leap in terms of performance, that people will be happy with it for quite a while - I would expect Apple's user base to keep widening, but the profit from hardware keep falling because people won't need to upgrade as much.

For years they churned out flawed laptops, I know people who went through multiple rounds of keyboard repairs. That has got to have put some people off buying mac laptops for a long time, M(1|2) or not.

Users affected by this still have until March 6 to file a claim, in case anyone was unaware of the class action settlement:

https://www.keyboardsettlement.com

Don’t miss your paycheck!

I bought many M1s, but haven't bought any M2s yet because the M1 is so great. I am saving the M2 purchase for when it like rains for 2 weeks straight or something.

I didn't upgrade to Apple Silicon right away but I did last year ago with gear going out of OS upgrade support last fall. I imagine a lot of people decided that Apple Silicon was a good upgrade point and I can't see upgrading again for a while unless I replace my iMac with a new mini.

I’m waiting for at least TSMC N3 or N3E. Getting 2 Macs on the TSMC node doesn’t make sense (especially with a slow SSD)

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