Or "open Mac," I should say.
But first, this isn't my first post. I've been with MacRumors from day one. I just rarely post and have no idea what my screen name and password were.
Second, I'll beat you to the punch plus deny you the satisfaction of calling me a Troll a term which has lost all meaning
first. I'm a Troll (whatever the hell that means).
If you don't enthusiastically agree with 100% of everything Apple does, you are a disloyal, treacherous heretic who should delete his forum account and not say another word (unless it's always "Yes!").
I've never owned a computer that wasn't made by Apple and have been a loyal customer and promoter for three decades+.
But I guess if I would like a new generation Mac Pro or some sort of "open" Mac, maybe with two 16x PCI slots (with spacers) and a port of SLI and CrossFireX (which makes sense if Apple's goal with both GCD and OpenCL was harnessing GPGPU power - like most SuperComputers do now) and maybe a Thunderbolt port, I'm not singing from the hymnal anymore like I should, and should rightly leave the Apple community and buy the first non-Apple computer in my life. A nice Hackintosh.
Fictional Apple Manifesto:
"The Mac Pro isn't selling so well. Haven't a clue why.
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"I mean, sure, relative to all our other products, it hasn't gotten the same 'care and feeding' since around 2003 when it was called the Power Mac G5. Let's see: 2012 - 2003; that around 9 years -- NOT EVEN A DECADE FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE! So why the urgency for a major reinvention like the iMac has seen from the Bondi original to the 'Luxo Lamp' iMac to the present incarnation to the soon-to-be-released model?"
"And sure the Mac Pro's existence has consisted mainly of a series of uninspiring, as-usual spec bumps that didn't create lines outside our stores. And maybe the 'Radiator' or 'Cheese Grater' Industrial Design looks a little dated after 9 years."
"And sure we abruptly put the brakes on our once aggressive development of and commitment to Grand Central Dispatch as of Snow Leopard, so buying a twelve-core Mac Pro makes absolutely no sense if so many of the cores are left tapping their feet or dozing off from boredom."
"But the slowdown in sales has absolutely nothing to do with us. It's the Pro community's fault. Why the heck should we have to refresh the product to keep up sales? People should just keep buying more units of the same generation."
"But, no! They want their stupid Parallel GPU Processing through multiple graphics cards. They want killer new Core APIs like Tiger introduced and Leopard. They want us to spend some time improving Grand Central Dispatch in Mac -- I mean OS X. They want their Thunderbolt. The even want SATA III? What a bunch of whiners. So demanding. It's your fault - just quit complaining and keep buying more of them. There's nothing we can do to create enthusiasm for the product."
"Or if you refuse to keep buying the current (and final) generation of Mac Pros, buy a Mac mini ('cause it's just so small and cute!) and use the Thunderbolt port to attach a giant PCI card chassis to the little devil. Then add your duplicate graphics cards and write to nVidia and AMD/ATI and tell them to write SLI and CrossFireX drivers or System Extensions or whatever. Then add a card to the box attached to the mini that has an eSATA or another Thunderbolt port on it and attach a big 4TB external drive to the PCI card box connected to the cute little devil
AND STOP COMPLAINING! (Oh, and do it while we still make 'Trucks,' 'cause we can't wait to stop making personal computers -- so....2010.)"
"BTW, why are you asking why the upcoming MacBook outperforms the upcoming iMac? We've told you and told you: the AirBook (Woops! Let that one slip) the MacBook Air is the what you can expect future Macs to be like -- not the stupid iMac! C'mon!"
"We first told you at 'Away From the Mac' -- I MEAN, "BACK To the Mac.'
"And the upcoming MacBooks and iMacs will be sealed with hot glue. Just a heads up. Oh, and we're discontinuing our external SuperDrive -- selling too well."
"But this is all about before we retire the Mac brand. It's one of the most recognized brands globally, but it was your parents who used Macs. Who's going to want to use a product that sounds so old-fashioned. And why is Coca-Cola still using their centuries-old brand name? Kids don't buy the same soda their grandparents drank! Coca-Cola's mistake was they didn't give New Coke enough of a chance."
We would have retired the Mac brand a long time ago, except those pesky YoY growth numbers foil our plans every time! If we just hadn't run that 'Get a Mac' TV ad campaign!"
Oh, and lastly, if you've been reading pieces about how we're a bit lost about what we want the iPhone '5' to be, it's because Steve Jobs is no longer running Apple."
