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Apple CEO Tim Cook said on the company\u2019s earnings call on Thursday that it could take \u201cseveral months\u201d to meet skyrocketing demand for the Mac Mini, the company\u2019s compact but mighty, screen-free desktop computer. Cook\u2019s remarks come after coders determined in recent months that the Mac Mini was the perfect machine for agentic AI tasks.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the Mac Mini and Mac Studio, both of these are amazing platforms for AI and agentic tools,\u201d Cook said on the earnings call, in response to analyst questions. \u201cAnd customer adoption of that is happening faster than we expected.\u201d<\/p>\n
The news comes amid another record-setting quarter for the company. iPhone sales came up shorter than expected, though demand for the iPhone 17 has been super high, and Apple\u2019s subscription services business has continued to grow.<\/p>\n
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| Are you a current or former Apple employee who wants to talk about what\u2019s happening? We\u2019d like to hear from you. Using a nonwork phone or computer, contact the reporter securely on Signal at ChaoticGoode.12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Apple faced supply constraints on both<\/em> the iPhone and the Mac product line this quarter. iPhone shortages are being driven mostly by a limited supply of the advanced chips that power the phones. But as Cook made clear, at least two different factors are driving shortages in Apple\u2019s Mac business: The rapid adoption of generative AI and unexpected demand for the company's new, colorful, and more affordable MacBook Neo laptop.<\/p>\n Mac sales are typically a fraction of what iPhone sales are\u2014$8.4 billion this quarter, compared to nearly $57 billion in sales of the iPhone\u2014and the Mac Mini, specifically, is a fraction of that. But with the launch of OpenClaw earlier this year, an open-source AI tool, Mac Minis began flying off the shelves because they offer both enough power and a dedicated computing environment for agentic AI tasks.<\/p>\n Some eager customers have already been waiting months for their Mac Minis. MacRumors reported in early March that Apple had stopped selling a configuration of the computer that included 512 GB of memory. As of last week, the base model of Mac Mini was entirely sold out.<\/p>\n Cook, and his soon-to-be-successor John Ternus, also addressed Cook\u2019s transition out of the CEO role later this year. Cook said on the earnings call that it\u2019s the \u201cright moment\u201d to step into the executive chairman role for a \u201cnumber of reasons,\u201d including that Apple is well-positioned financially and that its upcoming product road map is \u201cincredible.\u201d He called Ternus a \u201cperson of remarkable character and a born leader.\u201d<\/p>\n Ternus then joined the call for a minute to vouch for Cook as a business leader and to assure investors he\u2019d take a similarly deliberate and thoughtful approach in leading the company. He, too, mentioned the company\u2019s road map.<\/p>\n Both men were scant on details around this supposedly very exciting product road map, but hopefully, it includes more \u2026 road Macs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this story Apple CEO Tim Cook said on the company\u2019s earnings call on Thursday that it could take \u201cseveral months\u201d to meet skyrocketing demand for the Mac Mini, the company\u2019s compact but mighty, screen-free desktop computer. Cook\u2019s remarks come after coders determined in recent months that the Mac Mini was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |