Re: Will Apple abandon pro-users all together?

[Christian Schumacher] "http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/11/stale-mac-pro-lineup-has-pro-user...

The natives are getting restless...Apple have already thrown a lot in the trash bin."

Saw that in Ars nearly a month ago and it instantly reminded me that this whole discussion of "dumped the pros" is like deja vu.

I heard the EXACT same things when I tried to talk folks into giving FCP V1 a try back at the end of 2000.

I've learned to take all the "it's NOT for PRO use" talk with a huge grain of salt since I've watched countless times as the market decided that something totally inadequate for "professional" work - swept the market and eventually became the darling of the same pros who dismissed it most loudly upon inception.

Off the top of my head...
DV vs Beta-cam
Laserwriters vs Linotronics
H4ns vs Nagras
LEDs vs HMIs

Clearly I'm NOT saying that the former is superior to the latter. (in most cases, the exact opposite is clearly true.) I'm saying that the VALUE PROPOSITION of the former created an income stream so significant that the marketers of the former eventually BECAME the companies who were healthy enough to continue to advance and grow and move their products firmly into the professional space.

If the "laptop lines" are the production lines humming in the manufacturers plants around the world - it just stands to reason that they resources are going to go there first.

Personally I'd LOVE to see Apple ZAG once again while the market keeps ZIGGING and introduce some new component-able building block monster desktop array that lets you pick and choose the blocks you need right up to the bleeding edge. That makes a LOT more sense to me than building heavy blocks of (albeit beautifully milled) aluminum that cook away under the desk and are a kind of a hassle to transport, connect, and upgrade.

I'm doing end of year cleaning in the studio, and I just came across a big box of about 2 dozen AppleTalk boxes and maybe 150 feet of attendant cable. I also know that there's probably 200 feet of various signal and power cables in service to the Audio/Computer/Cinema Display and NTSC monitors around the system I'm typing this on.

It seems SO old fashioned when compared to my MacBook Pro that does nearly everything the MacPro does, but without all the attached crap.

FWIW.

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