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

Thanks, Tim.

So-

- a web based OS.

- The PowerPoint link isn't working for me here.

- The EOL of a server, of which Apple has a similar EOL. Apple said by a MacPro or a mini(!).

- A giant merger at the turn of the century of which there's no recent Apple comparison.

- A map for cloud based enterprise for which a space Apple isn't competing.

- Windows 8 proposed 3 years in advance. Mountain Lion 3ish months. How far in advance does Microsoft release developer previews for testing? Again, I don't know these things.

- And some other enterprise cloud offerings from Msoft.

Really, this is mostly enterprise. big, huge monster computing for big giant corporations with huge massive amounts of people and data. Like the Northwestern University's med school IT system, or one small wing of GE. Blue chip.

Let's dial it back a bit. I mean, as everyone has been saying, Apple is a consumer company, right?

Does Matrox, Aja, decklink have public roadmaps? Gtech, Sonnet, Sony, Arri, Canon, Panasonic, FSI, Elgato, Wacom, Cache-A, Noise Industries, Boris, Red Giant, TV Logic, anyone?

I'm not trying to be a wiseass either, but demanding a public roadmap and saying that "I won't buy without one" is not a realistic situation, otherwise we wouldn't purchase any gear as the paranoia would prevent any purchases.

Did anyone know that new HP all-in-one was coming? Or if/when the next Dreamcolor monitor is ever going to come out?

Unfortunately, big business is not open source.

And again, my usual disclaimer, I'm not aplogizing for Apple. The handling of the end of fcp7 and the beginning of fcpx has been very poor. People should be pissed off.

But if I switch to windows everything, is my future that much more secure because Microsoft said that there's going to be the next version of their OS in three years? Ya got me....