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No the have a terrible history of catering to high-end needs, b2b and specialty needs. Remember the Xserver? They killed off most of the high end video market
by quelsolaar 6y ago
No the have a terrible history of catering to high-end needs, b2b and specialty needs.
Remember the Xserver? They killed off most of the high end video market with FinalCutX, Everyone in the CGI space will not forgive Apple for what they did to Shake. The drop of OpenGL made loads of CAD apps give up on Apple. AAA game developers have long ago given up on Apple making something competitive. And add to that the debacle that was the trashcan, and the cheese grater. Neither of which was anywhere near competitive.
Apple is great at figuring out what the mass market wants, for everyone else they have a very poor track record.
- yoz-y 6y agoI agree that on the software front it’s a whole different story. I was thinking about broader categories like the music players (initially derided), phones (that Ballmer interview really aged poorly and and all large phone manufacturers couldn’t believe what was happening). Watches - all the media portrayed the Apple Watch as a failure even years after it was a market leader. The M1 is the same story, all the benchmarks were showing that A series chips had great performance compared to x86 and yet people still somehow managed to be surprised that M1 is fast. That’s why I wouldn’t bet agains apple when it comes to graphics cards. Now, the software story is different. Even if they have the greatest GC, the question is “what for?” As you mentioned they managed to scared off professionals. And they chased gaming away years ago.