There’s only so much we can read into this, of course, and we can’t judge too much from a single quarter. Still, the clear differentiator between this new MacBook Pro, and the MacBook Air and Mac mini from a year ago, is where the starting price is pitched, so we can theorize that this is where the (relative) sales struggle might have been.Įither that, or the computing public simply hasn’t received the MacBook Pro 16-inch as well as the critics. Naturally, the MacBook Pro 16-inch is far from cheap, although it doesn’t up the ante with pricing compared to the 2019 models (at least at the entry-level). The new super-sized MacBook Pro, which hit shelves in November 2019, doesn’t really put a foot wrong, quite frankly – although perhaps the fly in the ointment remains the price. Particularly given how good it is, and the glowing critical reception of the laptop in general, as mentioned. Of course, this still leaves a slight question mark over the new MacBook Pro 16-inch, and whether the machine isn’t making as much of an impact as we’d expect. So in other words, considerable momentum and early sales from those launches were difficult to match this time around. This is an issue Apple addresses in its earnings call (via The Motley Fool), with chief financial officer Luca Maestri explaining that the Mac had a “difficult year-over-year comparison” because of the launches of the MacBook Air and Mac mini in the December quarter a year ago.

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