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In addition to the good points you make, I've heard that top people within Apple are increasingly assigned to the iPhone and iPad, and there just aren't enough
by medusa666 14y ago
In addition to the good points you make, I've heard that top people within Apple are increasingly assigned to the iPhone and iPad, and there just aren't enough (human) resources left over to design new desktops (to Apple's high standards).
- excuse-me 14y agoNot bashing Apple but how much revolutionary design goes into a Mac desktop? The CPU, chipset and graphics card are all off-the-shelf. The motherboard is Apple but isn't anything special. The cases are nicely built but so are high end HP workstation (since they are actually designed by BMW consulting) It wouldn't tie up 1000s of Jonathon Ive's little helpers to stick a new Xeon and more memory slots in the existing models (and throw in Thunderbolt and USB3)
- hollerith 14y agoAgreed. In fact, one of Apple's Chinese suppliers could probably do most of the design work involved in providing a product to customers who (e.g., because the customer is a large organization that cannot afford the cost and the publicity of losing a software-infringement lawsuit) cannot use Hackintoshes, but want to run OS X on hardware vaguely competitive with current beefy Windows and Linux tower computers.