Not really
. Your posts are more like metaphor soup to a simple soul, like me.
metaphor soup. first time i've heard of it used. good job but i think you're mixing metaphor with analogy. i'm using analogies b/c of my lack of knowledge with the process and inner-workings of a computer company like apple. i know steaks and hotdogs and i've used it because it's the simplest example i can think of to analyze and theorize the lack of a 2014 refresh of the mac mini.
let's look at it like this. a hotdog is a processed food, right? it's cheap b/c a hotdog is processed everything. from its contents to how it is made and how it is then sold to consumers. it can be made and stockpiled and stored for a while in freezers and whatnot. now, a freezer cost money but hotdogs take up so little space compared to lets say a chunk of meat that the freezer overhead cost to keep hotdogs in storage are sort of nullified since the place where these hotdogs would have been kept would have already had the freezer thing infrastructure, let's say, already in place for not just hotdogs but for other much more expensive items.
this is where the hypothetical mac mini comes in. the reason why apple is not releasing a 2014 refresh is because apple, theoretically, is afraid of filling up this "freezer" with hypothetical mac mini "hotdogs" instead of more expensive and "meatier" imacs and macbook pros.
why would apple use the space they have to fill up this freezer with these "hotdogs," instead of chunkier, beefier, fresher meatier meats?
as to the current mac mini, the current mac mini, if we continue on the hotdog analogy is no longer in this "freezer." but is in the "stores" or "warehouses." if they still assemble the mac mini, i'd be surprise. i mean, if they do, they are making like 2 mac mini's a month using one person.
if apple would have released a 2014 refresh, apple would then have to make more space for the mac mini, which they don't want to. i think they're afraid that people would buy them more than their "steaks." they'd still make profit, of course, and it's not about profit as to why apple prefers not to make this scenario happen where people will be buying 2014 mac mini's more than, let's say, imacs or macbok pro's. i don't think it's also about cannibilazing sales, either. i mean, a mac mini is still a computer and it is still running the same OS as their other computers. so its not cannibalizing, either. it's IMAGE. it's STEAK vs. HOTDOG!
it's also space in the "FREEZER." apple would have to make this "freezer" hold more mac mini's than their other computers, which might mean some machinery or tool that are expensive that would have been delegated to creating imacs and macbooks would be sitting in the dust, either left to bleed money since they would still need it to be running but not making as much and have the less expensive machinery to make mac mini's go full tilt--which would be fine for us and the consumers, but, to the corporation would mean dissipating resources and money. not profit, but the money they invested in the "freezer" thingy-majig analogy i am trying to make.
oh, boy. i am even making myself confuse, now. i aparently have no iLife. get it? just kidding.
