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Leaving long time customers without options except to leave the platform is a huge error, really how hard is is to keep a line of Mac Pro going, it isn't losing
by drawkbox 14y ago
Leaving long time customers without options except to leave the platform is a huge error, really how hard is is to keep a line of Mac Pro going, it isn't losing money and there is a whole line of creators that are saying 'continue to take my money'. Amazingly enough, people still use PCs in the post PC era to make content for non PCs.
Many of the best developers on their platform use the Mac Pro. They also heavily influenced others adopting Apple devices. I think it seems small but the influence and impact of this decision is more than the revenue. iMacs will take the place of many of these customers like designers maybe but developers still want a beast with up to 64GB of RAM and 12 cores. You can easily run OSX and Windows dev at same time on it.
Might even be an immense error. I for one am disappointed if they don't hold true to the 2013 update. Once you go Hackintosh, why buy iMacs either if you have all that setup? Why walk away from die hard customers? They haven't even tried to grow it. So it could be much bigger and the desktop market for Apple is still untapped for the most part.