Well There is 103,986 responds to the dvd optical drive I am sure Apple has seen this sight.....

heidismiles wrote:

 

Well There is 103,986 responds to the dvd optical drive I am sure Apple has seen this sight.....

That's views not responses. View's really mean nothing because you can't tell who is for or against. 1,020 posts is hardly anything to go by either.

heidismiles wrote:

 

Well There is 103,986 responds to the dvd optical drive I am sure Apple has seen this sight.....

This tells us nothing, if there is sufficient demand for the return of the DVD it will most likely come back, as the new iMacs and Retina MBP's are selling very very quickly though I doubt that.

There are 103,982 views, 1,020 replies, that's less than a 1,000 people out of the millions of purchasers.

this is not a contest where 51% decides the winner. if as few as 1 out of 10 pass on the new imac because it just won't do what we want it to, then that's a 10% drop in sales and that figure would be disastrous for apple.

If and when that happens it would be a reduction in total sales, this is so, but far from a disaster (iMac sales are a small proportion of total sales)

But it has not happened.

Csound better do his math better if he thinks the Mac is still hot. Mac sales fell 800,000 from holiday 2011 to a year later, from 4.9 million to 4.1 million. Apple's struggles ended a long-running streak where the Mac had continued to outgrow the rest of the market. Current sales in the last part of the first quarter show an uptick from December, but if you average that in the long haul. Mac are currently flat. Not growing.

Post some attribution for those figures please.

As for this:

justamacguy wrote:

 

Csound better do his math better if he thinks the Mac is still hot.

I offered no math, shall I assume that you made this part up?

Apple said it sold 3.95 million Macs during its second fiscal quarter, slightly below the 4.01 million it sold a year ago. It’s the second straight quarter of no growth for the Mac.

Apples fiscal first quarter sales of 4.1 million Macs, which is down 22 percent from the 5.2 million sold a year prior.

You need to look at year over year trend and get the big picture.

We were talking about iMacs (new ones, without DVD) There is no figure for for the prior year, they did not exist in the prior year.

They were released in Oct 2012 and Nov 2012, if you are changing the subject please say so.

And you still have not bothered to attribute anything you have said, when you can I will pay attention to your posts.

Ummm... excuse me... More Macs were sold in 1st quarter of 2012 with DVD writers in them than Macs sold in 1st quarter 2013 without DVD writers in them... What's so hard to figure out?

justamacguy wrote:

 

Apple said it sold 3.95 million Macs during its second fiscal quarter, slightly below the 4.01 million it sold a year ago. It’s the second straight quarter of no growth for the Mac.

 

Apples fiscal first quarter sales of 4.1 million Macs, which is down 22 percent from the 5.2 million sold a year prior.

 

You need to look at year over year trend and get the big picture.

How about if we get tha data from Apple rather than you?

Apple Reports First Quarter Results

Highest Quarterly Revenue and Earnings Ever

 

All-Time Record iPhone, iPad and Mac Sales

CUPERTINO, California—January 24, 2012—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 first quarter which spanned 14 weeks and ended December 31, 2011. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $26.74 billion and net quarterly profit of $6 billion, or $6.43 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 44.7 percent compared to 38.5 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 58 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

The Company sold 37.04 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 128 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 15.43 million iPads during the quarter, a 111 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 5.2 million Macs during the quarter, a 26 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 15.4 million iPods, a 21 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter.

You're cheating... take the iphones and ipads out and talk Mac.

Oh.. wait... you're saying that iphones and ipads are better without DVD drives! Now I get it!!

You didn't read the report did you?

The Company sold 5.2 million Macs during the quarter, a 26 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter.

David M Brewer wrote:

 

You didn't read the report did you?

The crux of the matter I think.

Csound1 wrote:

 

David M Brewer wrote:

 

You didn't read the report did you?

The crux of the matter I think.

Am I missing something?  The report you quoted was from last year.

CUPERTINO, California—January 24, 2012

The most recent quarterly report is here: "The Company sold just under 4 million Macs, compared to 4 million in the year-ago quarter."

From what I've seen reported most PC manufacturers sales are well below last years numbers.  Apple is actually ahead of the game since the Mac sales are nearly flat.  There is simply no way one can use the current numbers to show that Apple made a mistake in removing the DVD drive.  The accuracy of that premiss will be proven or disproven by the marketplace in the future.

Be that as it may, I have not been sorry at all that I purchased my current iMac and I certainly haven't missed the DVD drive at all as I have far better external devices to use and almost never used the internal drive.