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Absolutely spot-on. The day Apple scuttles the Pro is the day they have fundamentally checked out of the computer industry. (That mobile and portable is prepos
by jpxxx 14y ago
Absolutely spot-on. The day Apple scuttles the Pro is the day they have fundamentally checked out of the computer industry.
(That mobile and portable is preposterously more profitable is beyond the point. PCI+x86 is an empire.)
- lukifer 14y agoI wonder about Tim Cook's personal history with computing; he's brilliant at what he does, but he doesn't strike me as a long-time computer enthusiast. Nor does Ive; his enthusiasm is wrapped up in crafting beautiful objects. Obviously there are many other influential execs and engineers at Apple, but I don't know of any with the pure love of Woz or Akio Toyoda, who'd be able and willing to burn a billion dollars to push the limits of desktop computing for its own sake. Simply put, I think they've already checked out of the computer industry. They're now a consumer electronics company that happens to make use of computer-grade hardware and software engineering.