It seems very unusual.....
It seems very unusual to me that Apple will release a new Mac Pro, bragging about its power to drive multiple displays, but only have to offer a nearly 900 day old Thunderbolt display.
Perhaps there is another take on the high end display offering now available in Europe. Maybe Apple is going to offer an updated (and hopefully larger) Thunderbolt display with the new Mac Pro in the US only due to glass yield problems, which will not permit them to meet global demand? So adding a competing product to the EU store is intended as a substitute.
The timing of the new Mac Pro might support that notion. Wasn't it revealed A YEAR AGO, amid complaints from the pro community, that Apple revealed it was working on a new Mac Pro that would be released in 2014. As it turns out, the VERY END of 2014.
Now did it really take Apple a full year AFTER it admitted that it was working on a new Mac Pro, notwithstanding its new design, to complete work on the product? Or was Apple waiting to release the Mac Pro with a new Thunderbolt display, at least in the US market? While the rest of the world can have the competitor model, until such time as glass yield improves.
In the end, to me anyway, it seems "un-apple-like" for Apple to release a major computing product without the means (new display) to take advantage of news capabilities....more power, better graphics, simultaneous displays, etc.
It seems very unusual to me that Apple will release a new Mac Pro, bragging about its power to drive multiple displays, but only have to offer a nearly 900 day old Thunderbolt display.
Perhaps there is another take on the high end display offering now available in Europe. Maybe Apple is going to offer an updated (and hopefully larger) Thunderbolt display with the new Mac Pro in the US only due to glass yield problems, which will not permit them to meet global demand? So adding a competing product to the EU store is intended as a substitute.
The timing of the new Mac Pro might support that notion. Wasn't it revealed A YEAR AGO, amid complaints from the pro community, that Apple revealed it was working on a new Mac Pro that would be released in 2014. As it turns out, the VERY END of 2014.
Now did it really take Apple a full year AFTER it admitted that it was working on a new Mac Pro, notwithstanding its new design, to complete work on the product? Or was Apple waiting to release the Mac Pro with a new Thunderbolt display, at least in the US market? While the rest of the world can have the competitor model, until such time as glass yield improves.
In the end, to me anyway, it seems "un-apple-like" for Apple to release a major computing product without the means (new display) to take advantage of news capabilities....more power, better graphics, simultaneous displays, etc.
