Re: Why Apple should let HP build its workstations

[Ronald Lindeboom] "It is why we actively focused on getting them involved at the COW. We believe that when the smoke clears, the most rabid Mac professionals on the planet -- the ones running über-powerful systems that need slots, cards, etc. -- will find themselves dancing with Apple and HP. Either as dual platform shops, or if it goes as we suspect, Apple will license a sole PC vendor to work with. We think that will be HP."

Maybe I'm just dense, but why would Apple bother to remain in the high-end market segment at all? What's really in it for them?

Apple just rolled over on a vast portion of their user base at that end of spectrum, including many substantial enterprise customers. They showed they didn't care about the top 2% on June 21st, why would they care now?