On Mar 14, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Benjamin Rister wrote: > On Mar 14, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote: > > > You actually think Apple will shut down the Mac, a lucrative division > > that has seen significantly increasing sales in recent years? > > Apple is renowned for quickly cutting off "old" technology. They're in no way > afraid of just killing things that they consider obsolete. (And increasing > Mac sales or not, iPhone OS sales are increasing much faster.)
That would be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. > A hardware example is that the iPod mini was selling like hotcakes, and they > just canceled it in favor of their new iPod nano. That's just an egg. Killing the Mac would be madness as it is the roots of the entire Apple product tree and allows Apple to remain masters of their universe. No way ever in hell would they add a dependency to a foreign OS for dev tools. That would be suicide. Then there's the huge investment in the pro market. Logic, Final Cut Pro, etc.... Killing the mac would render that entire investment pointless. Think a bit about how much Apple has invested in side businesses that depend on the Mac for dev tools, portals, etc. The pro audio market alone is pretty significant. My guess is they've decided to renovate the downloads area and took it down for a bit while they're doing it. -Todd Blanchard
