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Apple Vision Pro May Now Be Out of Production
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As Bart Simpson would say, "Tough break, Apple. I guess people just weren't ready for the Vision Pro. Maybe in a few years."
That's my assumption based on the statistics.
year 2014 ( ½ year after introduction of the round MP )
Let's take a look on Mac sales ( source one ) with 19.6 M pcs
Then let's have a look at Laptop sales ( source two ) with 16.3 M pcs
The balance is desktops - in other words Mac Mini + iMac + Mac PRO
2013 was Markt introduction and we can safely assume that the MAC PRO was the lowest sales number of them being the most expensive one. With a conservative assumption that iMacs and Mac Mini counts for >>80 % of sales the number of Mac pros is surely below or maximum around 600 k - that's what the amount of manufactured AVPs ( source three )
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It's still a niche device for their product lineup at the present time. MP is niche as well and was back then as it's a workstation.
What relevance is this to anything said so far?
You need to work on your reading comprehension instead of being so eager to start posting personal off topic anecdotes about how you wrote off something on your taxes from a decade ago. I said the cylindrical design was an issue and thats not some secret as Apple admitted the problem as well. They ended up in a situation with where users had no updates or upgrade paths for many years for a workstation class computer to the point they finally put in some Xeons in a iMac with better fans to try and hold users. Not even to mention the issues with the unified thermal core design removing the ability to slot in additional cards or upgrade many components over the life cycle of the system.
“Being able to put larger single GPUs required a different system architecture and more thermal capacity than that system was designed to accommodate,” the exec is reported as saying. “So it became fairly difficult to adjust.”
That seems to explain why the Mac Pro, until today, went more than three years without spec refresh — an entirely unworkable situation for pro users who need top-of-the-line hardware.
Schiller told reporters that the Mac Pro’s thermal issues “restricted our ability to upgrade it” and that Apple is “sorry to disappoint customers who wanted that.”
Yes - what’s the point?
Someone mentioned the Mac Pro was a failure too and turned people away from Apple - just reacting to a biased comment
I liked mine and it did the job splendidly - I am the only person I can refer to.
The MBPs are so good that aside from PCIe cards there is hardly any advantage. I don’t miss the big cumbersome cases. Yet I only wanted the computational power and not the form factor.
“Being able to put larger single GPUs required a different system architecture and more thermal capacity than that system was designed to accommodate,” the exec is reported as saying. “So it became fairly difficult to adjust.”
That seems to explain why the Mac Pro, until today, went more than three years without spec refresh — an entirely unworkable situation for pro users who need top-of-the-line hardware.
Schiller told reporters that the Mac Pro’s thermal issues “restricted our ability to upgrade it” and that Apple is “sorry to disappoint customers who wanted that.”
( I owned four Mac Pros over the years - don’t miss them today )
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I wish it was that easy. I regularly use the hotel tv and more and more hotels now you have to ask for the special remote or engineering every time you need to do it. They are locking in digital cable and trying to stop people using their own (free) content.