Apple doesn't care about Mac Pro Users

[linuxcooldude]

I'm not saying it was the direct cause of Apples troubles during that time, but one of the contributing factors that lead to the declining sales of Mac computers.

 

[wallysb01]

I'm not saying it was the direct cause of Apples troubles during that time, but one of the contributing factors that lead to the declining sales of Mac computers.

Well it pretty much has to lead to declining sales of Mac computers. Right or wrong, everyone at Apple must have known that clones would do that. The question is though, did the proceeds from the licensing the clones make up for the lost mac sales? Since they killed this program, I'm guessing they thought the answer was no, but there is no way to be sure. For example you say:

I don't think Apples looking to repeat the same mistake during the attack of the clones era. They estimated they lost $500 hardware profit for every $50 licensing fee.

But what is that actually based on? Do they assume they would have sold a mac machine for every clone? That's a highly flawed assumption.

Anyway, this all neither here nor there. Apple isn't going to do this again. It would be nice if they did do so as Aiden posted a bit back, i.e. dual socket only, or maybe one fairly expensive single socket configuration. To be sure Apple isn't kneecapping the low/mid level nMP sales, that single socket config could just be forced to be something the nMP is not, like it needs 8 DIMMs, 8 SATA3s, while also forcing them to fill so much RAM/drive bays to keep the price up (like at least 128GB of RAM). But of course this is pipe dream. It would make me tremendously happy, but well, its not going to happen...