Expected arrival times for Apple products

Is this just scraping <a href="http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/" rel="nofollow">http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/</a> ?

This site is a rip off of the work that macrumors has been doing for several years.<p>See: <a href="http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/" rel="nofollow">http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/</a><p>At the very least they should provide a credits link somewhere on their page.

<a href="http://buyersguide.macrumors.com" rel="nofollow">http://buyersguide.macrumors.com</a> is helpful, too.

This is a great idea, and is especially pertinent to Mac fans who care about the hardware they are using.<p>Since Apple does not discount old hardware (even with 2-3 year old video cards, they charge the same amount as a brand new updated mac the very next week[1]), people buying a Macbook pro at the wrong end of the timeline can get totally shafted on equipment, especially from a price-per-performance view.<p>That feels a little dishonest to me, but most people don't seem to mind, and its not as if the hardware they are selling is ever <i>bad</i>, it will just be twice as good next week, and sold for the exact same price.<p>So it seems that it is one again one of the worst times to buy a Macbook pro.<p>[1] I wrote two articles in 2010, one in Feb and one in April, which detailed the times as the worst and best to buy an MBP, comparing prices and hardware. Only really interesting for posterity: <a href="http://simonsarris.com/blog/19-mac-envy" rel="nofollow">http://simonsarris.com/blog/19-mac-envy</a> <a href="http://simonsarris.com/blog/22-mac-envy-2" rel="nofollow">http://simonsarris.com/blog/22-mac-envy-2</a>

Those are rather specific predictions to have without any measure of variance. About 57 days ± 30 days would be more useful information to have (if that fits the previous distribution).

Eventually Apple will sell hardware subscriptions, where you just turn in your old gear and get new stuff every year. (Maybe they can give your old ipods to starving kids or something).

Are you sure the Macbook Pro release is correct? The Retina was an update.

Macbook Pro (15") was updated couple of weeks ago, why this one says 263 days? Yes the retina one, isn't retina ones are successors of a previous model? Why keep them separate, I think Macbook Pro without retina will be obsolete and won't be updated.

Reminds me of something I built years ago:<p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080616021707/http://www.mactactic.com/" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20080616021707/http://www.mactact...</a>

It would be helpful to turn the bar red if something becomes overdue.<p>Perhaps take it one step further and start filling the bar again with the overdue number of days but with red.

The Retina Macbook Pro should be it's own category as it's update cycle is quite different to the Macbook Pro at the moment.

My own personal expected arrival times:<p>• Apple iEyes, stylish head-worn computer: 2016<p>• Apple MagicMindPad, implantable universal 3D/multitouch pointer device: 2021<p>• Apple nuRetina, permanent replacement for your biological retina: 2028<p>(Impulse purchases at the fancy Apple surgical centers are going to be big business in the 2020's.)

I am interested if there are any news when Google will refresh Nexus 7, I want to get it, but would prefer to wait for newer version.<p>There were already places that track release times, this page is not neccesary, <a href="http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/" rel="nofollow">http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/</a> comes to mind.<p>I see others pointed that as well... well I can't remove this post so you will have to endure it presence.

You should separate MBP and rMBP.

About two weeks ago, Apple did an update on the Retina MBP and some price changes the the MacBook Air. I know it is a rather small change, but I think it counts for "release", so the calculation for the Macbooks is wrong.

What I would find useful is seeing the things blocking each update. E.g. Mac Pro waiting on new Xeon CPUs from Intel, new iPad basically not enough time since last release, EOL for iPod classic, etc.

I'd love it if you could convert times in days to months, or something like 'early september' if you don't want to seem to over-promise by giving a real date. I could divide by 30, but I'm lazy.

The Mac Pro bar isn't quite correct. The last update was only due to Intel not producing the old processors any more. Apple didn't even flag it as "new" on their store.

Wow...the Mac rumors buying guide but prettier with less info. Is there any real insight or innovation here above and beyond that?

Lovely execution.<p>Only one nit -- the MacBook Pro was updated two weeks ago: <a href="https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/02/13Apple-Updates-Processors-Prices-of-MacBook-Pro-with-Retina-Display.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/02/13Apple-Updates-Pro...</a>

Nice, really like it! Think it would be cool if you could see the expected lenght for overdue products too. Something like that maybe: <a href="http://codepen.io/stroebjo/pen/aiLtd" rel="nofollow">http://codepen.io/stroebjo/pen/aiLtd</a>

Nice work.<p>Some feedback:<p>- Bug: The site breaks the back button of Firefox somehow.<p>- Suggestion: A timeline view of the previous releases on the detail page could help to make the patterns more clear.<p>- Suggestion: Maybe change the color of the bar when an update is overdue.

Waiting for the iPad Mini w/ Retina display (wait, where's the iPad mini?).

This looks great and I can see this being useful, but if I just land'ed on the site I would struggle to know what it is about....but you probably have this covered anyway :)

The text is cut off on <a href="http://arrival.io/macbook-pro" rel="nofollow">http://arrival.io/macbook-pro</a>.<p><a href="http://imgur.com/sBWlJ09" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/sBWlJ09</a>

From a statistical point of view, it seems kind of inappropriate to report something with a 100+ day standard deviation (iPhone release rate) down to the nearest day.

Firefox 19/mac, progress bars don't display.

It'd be a nice touch to note discontinuation based on overdueness. The classic isn't way overdue, it's discontinued.

just bought retina macbook pro 15 inch yesterday (ME665LL/A) which says "Early 2013". Isn't that an update?

Only 106 days until a new Thunderbolt Display! I really hope that it turns into an "Apple TV" announcement.

Clean and simple, I like it. I think an about page for new visitors would be good though.

Where do you get your data from?

Doesn't work in Firefox on Mac.

I hope that's not right, just ordered a MBA a few days ago

This is pretty nice. Where's the iPad Mini though?

Awesome! Thank you