Jim Wiseman
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I think the title of the article and the first paragraph are specific, iMac and Mac Pro.
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Read the Forbes article. Apple corporate office, the source for the article.
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I think they were under a lot of pressure to do something. The Facebook page We Want a New MacPro has over 18,000 likes now. I don’t won’t be thinking about a new one until 2013 anyway, but yesterday was obviously a let down for many. Good to get an Apple corporate confirmation that the Mac Pro line will continue in the future.
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Apple confirms (really) new MacPros and iMacs in 2013 in Forbes. See my most recent post.
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Look who’s talking, Tom. I’m not going to waste any more time on you. My posts have always been positive except when you have said something either childish or insulting. Have a nice life.
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Perhaps I should be more clear. What I am saying is that I can practically hear the people at Adobe wincing when you make a comment like that. Your screed like rants against the Mac are patently offensive. You win Adobe no friends amongst those of us who want PP to work well on the Mac (and Windows for those who choose). Denigrating the favorite platform of tens of thousands of professionals Adobe is trying to win over to their side is pretty lousy PR for them, since you have become their self appointed champion. What I said is no non sequitur.Also, your bastardization of a great Ray Charles song is truly childish. That is the only ridiculous (worthy of ridicule) statement I see on this page. It is you who appears to be ridiculous. I’ll end with your favorite smiley to make it all better… 😀
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Tom, you are without a doubt the best advertisement for Mac users to completely avoid Premiere Pro.
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“And where is that profit coming from? Not the computer we’re talking about in this thread…”
See my previous post. The Mac Pro is making a profit and has all the reasons I listed to remain viable. The fact that they are VERY profitable in the consumer to mid range market means they can easily afford to maintain a Pro presence that makes money on it’s own. i.e., Apple will be around for quite a while, and in my opinion will still make a Pro machine(s).
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“That was a deeply flawed strategy. HP’s PC business is really, really significant — a third of HP’s revenue. It’s a $40 billion business. It would be a Fortune 50 (that’s fifty, not a typo for 500) company all on its own.”
But revenue doesn’t necessarily correlate with profit. Apotheker thought PC’s were not generating enough to hold on to. But now he is gone. Apple has the profit side going strong. Why? People really want their products and OSX.
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Could not agree with you more that the only roadmap is Intel. Paper releases don’t really count from PC manufacturers.
I was with you until the last two paragraphs. Not likely Microsoft will drop Windows 7 support soon. Eventually, maybe. But comparing the entire ecosystem of the OS to with what Apple did with an application, FCP 7, is a bit of a stretch. On the hardware side, the previous CEO of HP was going to drop PC’s altogether because of the low profit margin. Have to believe he was talking about workstations too, as the synergy to continue them without the enterprise/consumer PC’s would not be there. Now he is gone, but there must have been some reason for him to adopt that strategy. Linux for the average person, even fairly technically oriented, is an unlikely alternative.
I really don’t think Apple thinks different about the Mac Pro. They may have thought about dropping it for a moment (there are bean counters in every corporation) thus the pro community’s paranoia. Continuing it just makes too much sense. It doesn’t lose money, it makes it. They need a high end box for developers, pros that talk up the Mac (like us), and for their own use. I don’t think it is going away.
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