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Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'You Will See Us Do More in the Pro Area'

Michael Goff said:
And you're ignoring that it will be horrible as a mobile device. WoA cannot bypass the lack of mobile apps.
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Yes it can. Mobile apps are in decline people are done with apps. Its a transition to go beyond the "smart"phone to better. The world is changing not 2007.
 
dogslobber said:
Eddy Cue will replace Cook as CEO.
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I'm pretty sure that would be scary. Just like I was pretty sure Trump would be a scary president when someone told me he may run.
thats all folks said:
2003 PowerMac 7,2
2004 PowerMac 7,3
2004 PowerMac 9,1
2005 PowerMac 7,3 update
2005 PowerMac 11,2
2006 Mac Pro 1,1
2007 Mac Pro 2,1
2008 Mac Pro 3,1
2009 Mac Pro 4,1
2010 Mac Pro 5,1
2013 Mac Pro 6,1

going back further, between 1999 and 2002, 5 updates to the Powermac G4
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Thanks for doing that work for me. He needed to be proven wrong. Lol ;):)
 
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jdillings said:
Most "Pros" have already left.
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I posted this in another thread, but it seems relevant here too:

I'm part of the team of artists that won the Oscar, BAFTA and VES for Best Visual Effects with The Jungle Book. Mac Pros have completely disappeared from artist's desks here and my 2010 Mac Pro at home will soon need to be replaced. I fear this time around it will have to be a Windows based workstation because Apple just doesn't care about professionals like us anymore. 'Content consumption over content creation' has sadly become their motto.

I'd love to be proven wrong, but this time around it will take more than an update to the Mac Pro product line once or twice in a decade before I am convinced Apple is worthy of my money and my trust.
What's more likely is that Visual Effects/CG-artists aren't part of Tim's definition of 'Pro'. While our work may be consumed by hundreds of millions of people around the world, we are too small an industry to be noticed by Tim's "visionary view" into the future.
 
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Anyone have a guess as to whether or not the 2017 MacBook will be able to drive a 5k display once it has TB3 and Kaby Lake?
 
I absolutely adhore the freemium game model and has destroyed
BoltmanLives said:
Mobile apps are similar to VHS a transitory stage
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Agreed, I've ben trying to tell people this for years, oh the Chromebook will never, ever gain traction, yes, it will, why, simple, we are going back to the original dream of, client - server realtionships. Our world is about monitoring, it's the New World agenda rule number 1, track everything, how, nothing will be saved locally and everything will be on a server. People, go Linux, NOW, more than ever, drop OSX, drop iOS, drop Android except for phones like Black, drop windows, drop them all like they were a bad dream. Community based privacy is the only way to survive in this upcoming world, take this with a grain of sand like so many of you will, but you've been warned.
 
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calden said:
I absolutely adhore the freemium game model and has destroyed

Agreed, I've ben trying to tell people this for years, oh the Chromebook will never, ever gain traction, yes, it will, why, simple, we are going back to the original dream of, client - server realtionships. Our world is about monitoring, it's the New World agenda rule number 1, track everything, how, nothing will be saved locally and everything will be on a server. People, go Linux, NOW, more than ever, drop OSX, drop iOS, drop Android except for phones like Black, drop windows, drop them all like they were a bad dream. Community based privacy is the only way to survive in this upcoming world, take this with a grain of sand like so many of you will, but you've been warned.
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You are partially correct as by 2025 over 85% of Data/Programs will be run from the public cloud. It will be similar to HAM radio today versus those who just use the Internet... hardly anyone does it yet still it exists for enthusiasts...that'll be desktop Linux which will likely gain some of the "tin hat" group with roll your own "Privacy Distros". As for the other trendsetting much larger group they will be using 10 and/or an OS from Google , i suspect Apl chooses Windows 10 down the road to run on its devices since they missed the cloud and their users insist on better. Sort of like the RIM for Android thing. I might even get an Iphone when its runs 10, as by then the prices will have adjusted.
 
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twa440 said:
Maybe you should go back to the Apple insider sight. They have their lips puckered right on the center of Apple's a$$.
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It's so easy to bitch and moan. Some people make some good points here - but so many are just lazy attacks.
jblagden said:
Yes, it's a "whine-fest". But it's not unmerited. Just look at Apple's hardware from the last four years. Complacency & Planned Obsolescence.
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On the mac side yes. I think it's partly focus on iPhone/iPad/watch and partly intel's chip delays/plans. I can't get to worked up about it. My nMac Pro is doing fine going on three years. My iPad Pro is rocking it.

I posted I'd bet anyone $100 that they'd release a new Mac Pro this year but no takers. People love complaining but don't want to put they're money where there mouth is.

There are many legitimate concerns... but there are many more that are just nonsense!
 
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albebaubles said:
exactly. hire more people.
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Because 100.000 employees is not enough to design a PC and tell some Taiwanese how to assemble it ?
But 100.010 will do - at the Spaceship of the Snoring Geese.
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LordVic said:
It's a culture problem at Apple.

When Steve Job's returned, one of the problem the "old boys" who tooko over had, was a lack of direction. They had spread the products out very thin and had no real product guys to offer direction. Apple was literally spamming out all sorts of different machines.

The first thing Job's did was restructure Apple. Get rid of the guys who couldn't figure out how to actually make products, and then took direct creative control over the entire product pipeline.

Then when Tim Cook took over, he's tried to keep that mindset. All product decisions go through him or the small group of executives. They have completely decsision on all. They're directly involved in all product lineup decisions, design and implementations. Same as during the Job's era, But now without a Jobs

Unfortunately, to further compound the issue, Apple has grown at fantastical rates and serve more people now than they have ever done in the past. But unstead of hiring new managers, or executives to head up individual product groups, They still believe the 4/5 of the executives can control all the products.

and it's pretty damn telling in the last 2-3 years that they can't. Years they focus on iPads, Mac's suffer. When they finally focus on a single new Macbook (Pro), the iPads and iMacs get forgotten. this cycle keeps happening every year. So this year Tim Says "PRos" are their focus, So what will they be sacrificing to focus on "pro" market? going to forget about the Mac consumer lines? No new Mac Air / Mac Book till 2018 then?

this cmopany needs a big culture change to be able to avoid overly focused mindset that often creates blinders on the exec's and they ignore other things while focusing.

and it really doesn't help that the current exec team seems to be very out of touch with a few of the market's they're claiming. It's almost like Apple's idea of "Pro" is the typical accountant / paper pusher, and thats the only thing they seem to be able to deliver to. they have no ability to see what the whole market looks like. They believe they are right all the time, and nobody can say otherwise. Just look at how confused Schiller was after the MacBook Pro launch and how he didn't understand why there was so much "hate"
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I did a few fake boardroom conversations here - but this is even worse.
This reads like Planet of the Apes - the book of the imbeciles
 
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Ok you darn tech heads.. How can a Mac Pro be as thin as it needs to be until the rest of the world catches up!?!?!

It's not Apple's fault. They'd love to release a Mac Pro squished down to the size of an iPad but the world of today just wont allow it..

Remember, Pro's need a Supermodel of a computer.. Looks good, concentration camp thin and very, very little going on behind the scenes.
 
"'Don't think something we've done or something that we're doing that isn't visible yet is a signal that our priorities are elsewhere,' Cook also told investors."

Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!! That Tim C(r)ook is quite the jokester!
 
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Lone Deranger said:
I posted this in another thread, but it seems relevant here too:

I'm part of the team of artists that won the Oscar, BAFTA and VES for Best Visual Effects with The Jungle Book. Mac Pros have completely disappeared from artist's desks here and my 2010 Mac Pro at home will soon need to be replaced. I fear this time around it will have to be a Windows based workstation because Apple just doesn't care about professionals like us anymore. 'Content consumption over content creation' has sadly become their motto.

I'd love to be proven wrong, but this time around it will take more than an update to the Mac Pro product line once or twice in a decade before I am convinced Apple is worthy of my money and my trust.
What's more likely, is that Visual Effects/CG-artists aren't part of Tim's definition of 'Pro'. While our work may consumed by hundreds of millions of people around the world, we are too small an industry to be noticed by Tim's "visionary view" into the future.
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