Learned helplessness runs wild at Apple. Your use of the term learned helplessness matches no definition I'm aware of. Can you elaborate on what you mean by th

Learned helplessness runs wild at Apple. Your use of the term learned helplessness matches no definition I'm aware of. Can you elaborate on what you mean by this, and also point to what evidence you have that it runs wild at Apple? and that's why it took them six years to design a new enclosure It didn't take them six years though. All the evidence points to the iMac Pro being the intended successor to the trashcan Mac Pro. The iMac Pro was released ~4.5 years after the trashcan Mac Pro. And even the iMac Pro represents a departure from original plan A, which had to have been simply updating the trashcan Mac Pro. IOW, to start development of the iMac Pro, Apple first had to come to terms with the 2013 Mac Pro being a failure. If we assume that took them 1-2 years, it puts the lead time for developing a pro machine at 2.5-3.5 years. The new Mac Pro was announced in April 2017, and most analysts seem to agree that at that point the project had only just started which confirms a lead time of 2.5-3.5 years. The trashcan Mac Pro was OK. […] It so transpired that the design did not provide ample cooling for Intel's recent CPUs. Obviously the 2013 Mac Pro was fine in 2013. That's not the argument we're having. But so what? Just change it. Which is what they did. But first they had to recognize there was a problem. As I argued above, that had to have taken at least one year, but more likely two. The actual problem with the 2013 Mac Pro was operational. Hindsight is always 20/20 as they say. If it had been possible to provide steady incremental updates to the Mac Pro, like Apple did with its predecessor, building it in the US probably wouldn't have been much a problem. But even disregarding that, I don't think it's fair to argue that the actual problem was operational. Sure, it must have been a complicating factory, but if the Mac Pro was a high priority for Apple, they could have easily decided to just write off their US factory and all its robots, and move production to China. The problem if any, was that the Mac Pro was simply not a high priority for Apple.