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For us iOS & OSX developers, and apple themselves, an up to date mac pro is very very useful.

• brudgers 14y ago
  Apple can compile their toolchain and OS to run on any hardware they want. And when it comes to OSX and iOS, over the long term, they would probably prefer not to have to support third party development. The analogy for iOS development is sharecropping, and it doesn't exist anymore because it's more efficient for the landowner to buy a tractor.
  • pi18n 14y ago
    That is a well-stretched analogy. What is the tractor?
  • mahyarm 14y ago
    In practice, they don't give their own software developers non-production machines except in special circumstances. Most OSX & iOS developers in apple are using apple production hardware.