And this is exactly what Apple don't seem to understand. The real fans of Apple products often don't buy them just for their individual usefulness, but for the ECOSYSTEM. Individual Apple products don't compete very well on their own with the alternatives, but combined into an ecosystem of interconnected products, they work VERY well. The problem is that when one of those items isn't up to date, THE WHOLE ECOSYSTEM suffers!!! That causes people to not just replace an item like their computer with something from another brand, but to take ALL of their tech needs elsewhere. That lack of an update to the Mac Pro may not seem that important to Apple, but it will be a major part of the reason for declining sales in ALL of Apple's other product categories, as professional people, THE ONES WITH MONEY, go elsewhere.
Apple might be making a ton of money at the moment, but they have set themselves up for a MAJOR collapse. The combination of a connected ecosystem of products, along with low marketshare, ridiculous prices and margins, and making most of their money on one product, means that the company could potentially collapse VERY quickly.
A company like Microsoft, with 90% plus OS market share can afford to lose 10% without it affecting them much. Apple's 10% market share on computer OS, and 15% on cellphones can't afford to go down much more. Cellphones in particular are an area that Apple is particularly vulnerable in. With them making 70% of their ENTIRE profit from iPhones, if they lost just 7% market share, it would cost them nearly 35% of all profits.
Anyone with any business sense knows that if you rely on one product for the majority of your income, you are in BIG trouble (especially in a saturated market).
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