[Oliver Peters] “this is an attempt to counter things related to Android, not the desktop.
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I agree. iProducts are now their main course, and they are being threatened by some truly serious competition. They are giving away these overly-mature products that have little growth potential to combat share loss in the iWorld. I DO hope that X is something different to them.
And, the Mac Pro is definitely something different to them. My gut is they would be seriously contaminating both it and X by treating X as loss-leader at the Mac Pro’s release. First off, such a deal would have very little influence on any potential Mac Pro buyer I can imagine. Second, it would make X look cheap, not inexpensive, and maybe subliminally signal that X is pretty much done.
I can envision some sort of Pro Package, at a very modest discount, put together to celebrate the Mac Pro, but giving it away for free is, to my mind, saying its dead, or deadish.