“Because the MacPro only caters to a “very small niche” market (as Philip Hodgetts often calls us)…even though we represent about, say, 20,000 people…isn’t only 2% of Apple’s user base, so it only stands to reason that they no longer make very expensive machines to cater to the 2%”
They don’t care about niche market, they are focusing on the best product. Just like Steve Jobs said: “When the sales guys run the company, the product guys don’t matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off. It happened at Apple when Sculley came in, which was my fault, and it happened when Ballmer took over at Microsoft.”
-Handry-