That's okay - I hope you feel better soon.
People are implying that in 2013 Apple was willing to redesign the whole computer (and manufacturing process along with it) but in 2017 they care so little they won't even upgrade the processors.
Mac Pro sales have not fallen that significantly in the last 4 years. If they had, the Mac Pro would have gone from a "niche" Mac to "discontinue - no one will notice". Clearly, plenty of people do still care.
I don't really know what the full story is, but I would imagine it's something to do with keeping the Mac Pro cool enough to run. That might be more difficult with Intel's newer processors than Apple anticipated in 2013.
its an interesting theory. (i'm just having conversation now, not trying to say you're wrong or anythin, since unless we worked there we wouldn't know)
Mac Pro seems to me like the bastard child of the current execs. When they launched it they put some much credit to the design of it, claiming it to be the future of computing. But while the Mac Pro sales haven't changed a lot (those in OSx have little option if they want the best apple computer), the ignoring of the computer is just weird. not even a silent refresh. it's almost like, they know they cannot kill off the Mac Pro. that's too much business loss. the people who need that sort of hardware do spend really good money.
But at the same time, they cannot figure out a direction for it. it's not in their idea of what the future of tech is. so they can't kill it, but they can't really move forwards with it either because it's not really the device that they thought it would be.
its just really weird. it seems liek Apple execs just have no clue what a high end workstation computer needs. they want it to be "Apple" like where form trumps function, but they also don't want to get rid of the idea that Apple can still deliver function.
if they released the Mac Pro tube with an I7, upgradable GPU's (even proprietary ones), and deemed it a gaming computer, I think it would have flown off the shelves. but Tim Cook doesn't seem to understand the PC marketplace at all. He might be great at gauging phones and supply chains, but the Mac Pro, and now the Design over function MacBook Pro (which is still a good computer, just not the pro computer to replace the previous ones) just seem so out of touch from what everything else in the PC industry is doing.
what further makes me believe apple is clueless currently in the PC industry, is the Mac Mini's last iteration, cutting out performance, raising the price, for no reason at all (same chassis as the previous one!). Or the fact they refuse to go touchscreen on laptops and computers despite the PC industry adopting them at the fastest rate ever (and often for far less price than Apple's alternatives). it's also the fact they don't have a single VR capable computer (yes, it's a niche market, but would it be hard for apple to h ave ONE computer in their lineup capable?).
the only thing that makes sense to me with Tim COok's handling of the PC side of the gbusiness is he's clueless to the market. So he lets his designers build the computers THEY want. without actually looking at the market itself to see where it's going. Nobody was asking for a tiny tube professional workstation. is it cool? damn straight, but when it comes to people's livlihood, and people who needed compute power over form, the Mac Pro failed epicly on that front
