Given Apple’s current locked-down trajectory with the Mac, the Mac Pro was gonna die eventually, and it’s for the best that it does given it was reduced to little more than a massively overpriced Mac Studio grafted onto a useless PCIe backplane; a $12k grift, basically.
PCs at least are still modular and expandable; for now.
On one hand, bummer. But on the other, sort of a waste of hardware anyway.
I was a big time pro user. G3 tower with DVD card, G5 dual, Mac Pro 5,1 with dual X5690’s and other upgrades. But I had to drag those systems kicking and screaming out of Apple’s walled garden to do what is second nature on the PC side of things. Loved the OS back then, but not all users were braindead drones.
“Pro” stopped being a moniker for advanced capability, instead the most expensive, least hobbled version.
I hope whomever replaces Cook (rumor has it) once again remembers what it was like to be a nerd under all that businessman authority.
If I were shareholder I would want answers as to what the actual hell Cook is doing right with Apple. Every decision just seems to be intentionally designed to lose money.
From all the messing around with core products, to the bizarre decisions that led to the updated vision pro, a device no one is interested in, been upgraded to the latest version of the device no one is interested in, now with tungsten. Nevertheless I’m sure the iPhone sock is going to be a rip roaring success.
They could replace him with a goldfish swimming around a tank to make decisions, and it would lead to more coherent outcomes.
I would agree as a customer, but as a shareholder?
Apple has been increasing user hostility, investing in questionable hype stock market hardware/software, pumping services profits, padding their war chest, and pushing prices to their absolute limit, literally to favour their shareholders. For a long time.
All the rich at Apple are shareholders first, users second. That’s the conflict of interest.
Michael Reeves as next apple CEO. He (his fish) has the experience necessary. And possible lead fumes intake required for the job.
Oh yeah, the G3 tower was a thing of beauty - neat design, serviceable, and lovely to use <3
Users like you are far more expensive for Apple in terms of tech support than some idiot who just wants a cool laptop. It was a strategy decision to drop professional application development.
As I pointed out, PCs are still modular for now, and yeah, except for in Windows in which the Pro SKU technically still has enhanced capabilities over the Home SKU, specifically Group Policy is a thing albeit in cut-down form vs. the Enterprise/IoT SKUs on Pro while on Home, the only under-the-hood tweaks you can do are in the registry via regedit, the word, ‘Pro’ has lost most of its meaning.
Even for at least AMD GPUs, you’ve been able to use the Pro drivers on consumer hardware and vice-versa since Vega at the earliest if not earlier than that.