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This circles around the real point, which I think is that "Pro" is a marketing term. As the author points our, he makes money off a machine without the Pro labe

This circles around the real point, which I think is that "Pro" is a marketing term. As the author points our, he makes money off a machine without the Pro label. I do as well, with my main Mac being an iMac. Pro used to designate more clearly between models, but it has always been a marketing term first and foremost. A chef is only as good as their food, not their knives. > Experiment, but not on my lawn That's the real crux of it, isn't it? Everyone wants Apple to innovate and change and stuff, up until it affects the pieces of the Mac they like. Apple just managed to step on a lot of toes simultaneously by wiping the exterior of nearly all connectors and slots.

Karrot_Kream 10y ago
> That's the real crux of it, isn't it? Everyone wants Apple to innovate and change and stuff, up until it affects the pieces of the Mac they like. Right, but if Apple seriously wants to continue targeting Developers, then they need to produce a product that will actually target them properly. It's like music equipment. If you look at home music equipment, the marketing and user-friendliness is completely different from the pro music market, despite the fact that they essentially just play music.
- st3v3r 10y ago
  Developers are not the only "pros" out there. So many of these articles seem to forget this.
- eddieroger 10y ago
  I genuinely don't think Apple wants to target developers, and I don't think they ever have. WWDC Is a great example - they could easily fit every interested developer in the expanse that is all of Moscone, if not going to larger venues altogether, but instead they limit. Part of this is because of the interest from consumers in Apple and the absence of a consumer show like MacWorld, but if Apple really cared about developers, they wouldn't make us enter a lottery to attend a conference for us. Apple is a publicly traded company, and their first responsibility is to shareholders, not developers - or any other field where the term "Pro" could apply, like artists, or musicians, or videographers, or photographers.

Karrot_Kream 10y ago

> That's the real crux of it, isn't it? Everyone wants Apple to innovate and change and stuff, up until it affects the pieces of the Mac they like. Right, but if Apple seriously wants to continue targeting Developers, then they need to produce a product that will actually target them properly. It's like music equipment. If you look at home music equipment, the marketing and user-friendliness is completely different from the pro music market, despite the fact that they essentially just play music.

st3v3r 10y ago
Developers are not the only "pros" out there. So many of these articles seem to forget this.
eddieroger 10y ago
I genuinely don't think Apple wants to target developers, and I don't think they ever have. WWDC Is a great example - they could easily fit every interested developer in the expanse that is all of Moscone, if not going to larger venues altogether, but instead they limit. Part of this is because of the interest from consumers in Apple and the absence of a consumer show like MacWorld, but if Apple really cared about developers, they wouldn't make us enter a lottery to attend a conference for us. Apple is a publicly traded company, and their first responsibility is to shareholders, not developers - or any other field where the term "Pro" could apply, like artists, or musicians, or videographers, or photographers.