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Given Apple’s current locked-down trajectory with the Mac, the Mac Pro was gonna die eventually, and it’s for the best that it does given it was reduced to little more than a massively overpriced Mac Studio grafted onto a useless PCIe backplane; a $12k grift, basically.

PCs at least are still modular and expandable; for now.

  • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.comEnglish
    301·
    4 days ago

    On one hand, bummer. But on the other, sort of a waste of hardware anyway.

    I was a big time pro user. G3 tower with DVD card, G5 dual, Mac Pro 5,1 with dual X5690’s and other upgrades. But I had to drag those systems kicking and screaming out of Apple’s walled garden to do what is second nature on the PC side of things. Loved the OS back then, but not all users were braindead drones.

    “Pro” stopped being a moniker for advanced capability, instead the most expensive, least hobbled version.

    I hope whomever replaces Cook (rumor has it) once again remembers what it was like to be a nerd under all that businessman authority.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      71·
      4 days ago

      If I were shareholder I would want answers as to what the actual hell Cook is doing right with Apple. Every decision just seems to be intentionally designed to lose money.

      From all the messing around with core products, to the bizarre decisions that led to the updated vision pro, a device no one is interested in, been upgraded to the latest version of the device no one is interested in, now with tungsten. Nevertheless I’m sure the iPhone sock is going to be a rip roaring success.

      They could replace him with a goldfish swimming around a tank to make decisions, and it would lead to more coherent outcomes.

      • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        8 hours ago

        Apple silicon has been a huge success. That transition had a million ways it could and should have failed but he pulled it off.

        AirPods basically took over an entire market. You either have AirPods or a knockoff of the same idea. That’s basically it now.

        The watch….needs some attention. Everyone has one, no one knows what it’s for. I pay for things with my watch and people are floored it could do that. I’m like “why the hell did you buy it if you didn’t know what it can do?”

        The iPhone is good. It’s not great. It’s overpriced as fuck. But the product itself, even the air, is good. The latest round of software for it is a disaster though. That hold for all of the software this release cycle. Across everything except the appleTV, things were made measurably worse.

        It just so happens that Android is also getting worse. I loved Android being there to save me from Apple when they finally pissed me off enough to leave and cheer them on from the sidelines. This year, I was finally ready to make the jump and leave and then Google says they are effectively killing third party OS development and locking down the platform. Also, Gemini is going to run on everything and you can’t do anything about it. You can’t turn it off, you can only turn off your ability to interact with it directly. Because AI.

        I bought another iPhone, and now I’m looking at Linux phones seriously and thinking to myself “why not?”

      • 123@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        Michael Reeves as next apple CEO. He (his fish) has the experience necessary. And possible lead fumes intake required for the job.

      • ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        I would agree as a customer, but as a shareholder?

        Apple has been increasing user hostility, investing in questionable hype stock market hardware/software, pumping services profits, padding their war chest, and pushing prices to their absolute limit, literally to favour their shareholders. For a long time.

        All the rich at Apple are shareholders first, users second. That’s the conflict of interest.

    • DFX4509B@lemmy.wtfOPEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      As I pointed out, PCs are still modular for now, and yeah, except for in Windows in which the Pro SKU technically still has enhanced capabilities over the Home SKU, the word, ‘Pro’ has lost a lot of its meaning lately.

      Even for at least AMD GPUs, you’ve been able to use the Pro drivers on consumer hardware and vice-versa since Vega at the earliest if not earlier than that.

    • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
      11·
      4 days ago

      Users like you are far more expensive for Apple in terms of tech support than some idiot who just wants a cool laptop. It was a strategy decision to drop professional application development.