Some Flop

Robin Harris, back in November, on Apple’s revamped lineup of MacBooks:

By investing in a costly feature no one asked for Apple is stalling its rapid growth in notebook marketshare. Whether it is a flop or a fiasco depends on how bad and how long the global recession is.

Apple’s laptop unit sales for the just-ended quarter were up 34 percent year-over-year.

★ Wednesday, 21 January 2009