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This is completely irrelevant to this situation. Their Mac Pro sales have surely already reduced to a trickle, and they will know that they will not sell a huge
by stephen_g 10y ago
This is completely irrelevant to this situation. Their Mac Pro sales have surely already reduced to a trickle, and they will know that they will not sell a huge amount of the updated bridging model. The iMac update has been expected for a while so they're not changing much mentioning that's coming later this year either.
It's not like killing the current Mac Pro sales is exactly going to put Apple in trouble - they're raking in money from the iPhone and MacBook (Pro) lines.
This is a carefully thought out plan from Apple for sure, unlike Osborne's blunder.
- valuearb 10y agoThey just refreshed the Mac Pro though. That's curious timing with the announcement.
- jzl 10y agoI would guess that the only people buying Mac Pros at this point are people who need to for infrastructure compatibility reasons, and/or who need something more powerful than a MBP but absolutely can't go with an iMac for whatever reason. These are mostly people who probably would have been buying more even without the bump. So the bump is just a nice bonus and tip of the hat from Apple to hang in there. Example of what I'm talking about? Check out this Mac Pro server rack setup: http://photos.imgix.com/racking-mac-pros http://photos.imgix.com/racking-mac-pros