I'm outsider looking on. I recall apple stating a modular Mac Pro is coming, I thought they said 2019. I think many people were hoping for 2018, but apple takes there time. The issue is many people who resisted the trash can Mac Pro need something sooner then later. Its my opinion that Apple is in a self made bind right now
Consider the lay of the land for Macs.
Mac mini 1,337 days since its last refresh
MacBook Air 337 days, but that was a minor spec bump. It needs so much more, that machine is woefully behind other laptops, i.e., no retina
MacBook Pro 374 days but in this case the keyboard has an extremely poor reputation, there's three class action lawsuits, the TouchBar is much derided.
Macbook 374 days, its probably the most stable of Macs at this point.
iMac 374 days - People are waiting for a redesign, current model does not have current ports
iMac Pro 182 days
So Apple's Macintosh line is in rough shape, every model (with the exception of the MacBook and iMac Pro). While some of that work isn't rocket surgery, i.e., update the Mini, I think line up is in such bad shape and require so much attention its impacting Apple's timeline with the Mac Pro.
Are people sitting on the sidelines or moving on and buying windows based products? I'd say as weeks turned into months, that turn into years, they're moving on to other products. I myself am considering a windows based laptop. Apple didn't update the MBP and given the keyboard issues and high price of the MBP it appears I'll be better off with a windows machine. Just consider the budget. I can spend 3,000 on a MacBook Pro that has a suspect keyboard, and its on last year's chipset, or I can spend 2,000 dollars (plus tax) on a Coffee Lake hex core machine and I'll not have to worry about the keyboard. I raise that issue because its a microcosm of what people are facing with Macs, whether its the MBA, Mini or the Mac Pro.
I mostly agree, but would argue the MBA is the best, if slightly overpriced option in its segment .
Old KB, magsafe, more ports than the MB .
I desperatly need a new MBP , but can't possibly buy one with touch bar, the faulty KB, lack of ports, and no magsafe adds insult to injury .
As for the Mac Pro, and as far as I'm concerned, Apple should at least have mentioned it at the WWDC .
Just to give people something to moan about and keep speculating . They discussed hardware before at these events .
As it is now, there is not much to talk about for Mac aficionados, after being met with thundering silence at a major Apple event .
As for software, that's been an issue for years ; OS X became a deathtrap when backwards compatibility of both the OS and Macs jumped off the cliff after Mavericks .
Who wants to develop for that, or even keep up with it, when OSX stops supporting older versions of a program every other day, AND people can't run older OSX versions on new Macs ?
As a consequence, you can dump a few old apps, repay and relearn the newer versions of some, hack the latest OSX back to where it doesn't bother you too much - or get a Windows machine for less money and the same headache now, but less of both down the road .
Leave it to Apple to mess up your workflow, with their iStyle approach .
