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Steve Jobs is famous for not talking about or acknowledging future products until they are released. This says nothing about cancelling existing products, and
by illumin8 16y ago
Steve Jobs is famous for not talking about or acknowledging future products until they are released.
This says nothing about cancelling existing products, and you should not extrapolate it as such.
Can you name one example where Apple has cancelled a successful product? By all accounts, the Mac Pro is a successful and profitable product, so why cancel it? It makes no business sense.
- jshen 16y ago"By all accounts, the Mac Pro is a successful and profitable product, so why cancel it?" By what accounts exactly? Cringely gave revenue numbers that show that their consumer electronic business is far larger than their pro computer business. This is a basis, you may disagree with the conclusion, but you are exaggerating at best. Also, I'm not too concerned with them outright canceling it, but I am concerned that they won't particularly care about their computer business. Snow leopard was a very minor update, and I haven't heard anything about the vision for the mac in a long time. I think it's clear that Steve's focus has moved on to the consumer electronic side of their business.