Apple´ s Damage control surely will sneak peek something next week, no matter if comes available 2020.
Only WWDC, in my opinion. The only events in 2018 were a spring iPad education event, wwdc, September iPhone event, and upcoming October event. So it’s either October or 6 more months till the next April “dog ate our homework” round table.
Yes IMO the 2018 WWDC was the only event where it was expected to have tangible Mac Pro information coming out at all. As a result, since Apple got absolutely nothing to show, in April (?) the journalist campus visit / pro-workflow BS was thrown out as a preemptive measure.
Remember the press from 2017 ? from there is the quote
yes, but to present at WWDC a product that is 1 year away....the 2013 one was presented at WWDC but was release after 6 months...so, if next Mac Pro is ready for next year WWDC, then Apple could mention it on 30
Apple doesn't profit from those use cases because, when it started designing the tcMP back at the beginning of this decade, Machine Learning, AI & VR were not even on its radar...
Nothing close to a date was given.
It would be better if he said that "It’ll meet those needs" without the "more of".
There are three reasons why I doubt it's option 1:"(...) we’ve asked the team to go and re-architect and design something great for the future that those Mac Pro customers who want more EXPANDABILITY, more UPGRADABILITY in the FUTURE. It’ll meet more of those needs." (P. Schiller, 2017)
I know lots of people are sceptics towards the "modular" term, but he also used other words which may lead to two scenarios:
1) freedom to upgrade with commercial third-party products
2) Apple sells its own daughter cards at a premium or PCI-E cards with modified EFI
Given they are "listening to pro users to understand where the workflow has bottlenecks"... come on! It HAS to be option no.1!
Yes, part of the reality distortion field on this forum is all the people that insist on what Apple MUST DO (or conversely MUST NOT DO) in order to avoid some sort of disastrous consequences.... but yet Apple ignore that and somehow manage to survive.
*looks at calendar* Is it April 1st already? Please tell me you just forgot the appropriate smileys to your (hopefully hoax) post, pretty PLEASE!
Okay, so what information would they have to provide at the event in order to "halt the ongoing exodus of 'pros'"? They've already had two press events where they have told pros "We're working on the new Mac Pro, it's not ready yet, but it's going to be great" - it wouldn't add any value to just reiterate that for a third time at the October event, so they would need to do provide something beyond that. And if it's really going to "halt the ongoing exodus" then it would need to be specific enough that it tells pros that the new product is worth waiting for, which probably means describing enough about what the product IS, and enough about WHEN the product will be released, and both of those are things that Apple almost never does - as well as open the door to other OEMs then racing to copy it. So yes, there might be the upside of halting the exodus, but there are also downsides that mean that the net upside for Apple may not be compelling.
And what do you think is the likelihood of them saying that next week? I know what I think the likelihood is.
SWJ the new Hippies, on huge steroids dose.
OEMs then racing to copy it????
This video made me really sad. It's deeply disheartening to see Apple's passion and excitement about the Mac Pro back in 2006 vs. Apple's complete lack of interest in professional hardware today.
I'm not sure how "right now" is relevant when we're talking about something new being introduced that may change the competitive landscape.
