Re: What if there actually IS a new Mac Pro?

[Walter Soyka] "I'm somewhat afraid that anything other than an EOL will just be more tea leaves to try to read."

Always is, with them. My take is that an all new design represents significant effort, investment, and commitment while another rev to a 2003 design represents reluctance and indifference. Sure, an all-new box could be a flop and they'd kill it after one cycle, but it would take crappy sales to do that. And if the sales are that crappy, then there wasn't a market for it anyway.

This is why I keep bringing up Windows 8. Microsoft is driving even harder than Apple away from the conventional desktop computing model, as the mass market is speaking loud and clear with shrinking PC sales next to exploding iPad sales. Fewer and fewer people need a conventional windowing environment to do what they need to do with a computer. How will Windows 8 play in the workstation market? Can you imagine trying to use Windows Server 2008 as a workstation? Does the workstation transform back into what it was in the 90s- a specialty box that you only use for a few limited purposes?

I find this all fascinating.

[Walter Soyka] "Perhaps the concern isn't about the technical separation, but the ideological one: OS X must retain its philosophy of layered complexity, and must never inherit any of iOS's locked-down design philosophy."

iCloud is their bridge. Local for conventional filing, iCloud documents for the iOS filing model on the Mac.

Best,
Andy