Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

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Well_is_it

Interesting article on how the Mac teams at apple have been neglected.
There isn't even a macOS team any more, just one big team that does iOS and macOS.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/how-apple-alienated-mac-loyalists

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chrisbmx116 in reply to @Well_is_it

Interesting read... I can see a time when what we now call an iPhone is able to double as a Desktop, the real question is how that transition happens and what we have in the interim period. I have come to the conclusion that the new MacBooks are decent, I fear they may put the 460 card in the new iMacs and make them thinner (an iPad like shape with less chin than current... might mock that up in a sec...). They should do brand boosting machines - make the MacBook as thin and portable as possible, make the MacPro as powerful as possible, keep the rest in there usable middle ground...

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Well_is_it in reply to @chrisbmx116

Yeah, developers still need Macs to make stuff for iOS though, so even if the Mac does make up 10% of their profits, they need that to keep their product that makes 60% competitive.

Concurrent development of A/B models and waiting for Intel don't help either.

I do think they need a powerful, expandable box that isn't an iMac. The old Mac Pros sold well and were good value even compared to HPs and Dells. Universities had loads of them, companies had loads of them and more people had them at home than the trashcan.

Hopefully they haven't looked at the abysmal sales of the trashcan and gone "no one wants workstations anymore", ignoring (or forgetting) how popular the cheesegraters were.
Or maybe they're letting it languish because it didn't do well from the start and a redesign after a year would be like admitting it was a rubbish idea. Three years seems more acceptable for a radical change of form-factor and no-one would be to wedded to the outgoing one.

They must have considered merging the Mini & Pro.
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duncs in reply to @chrisbmx116

I can see a time when what we now call an iPhone is able to double as a Desktop

Seems like that's what MS are doing to try and catch up on mobile.
Windows 10 coming back to ARM chips with full support, and same apps being developed on desktop, mobile and xbox.

Surface Phone might be interesting, or it could be as irrelevant as their last 5-10 years attempts at mobile.

/derail

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