The iPad aren't anywhere near ready for business uses. And the Mac aren't being loved by the Pros.
In the old days Apple would have continue to do small improvement to the Mac and milk the hell out of it, until iPad overtakes it.
I agree with you on this, but not on the rest of your analysis.
> The iPad aren't anywhere near ready for business uses.
Didn't you just say that it was the mac that was for pro users? Business users are the largest professional segment, by far.
I think this is where most pundits mess up. A pro computer is not a rendering farm or a rack for software compilation. And rarely do you need to run several virtual machines locally in order to code in an IDE.
A pro use case is someone who works on a machine all day. Compared to an "amateur" machine, it has to stand up to more wear and tear and it can afford to be "nicer" to use, because it is cheap compared to the monthly wages of the professional user. Business class doesn't fly faster, it is just "nicer" to sit in.
Apple's pro features have traditionally been heavily skewed towards usability. 10 years ago, "pro" was aluminium body and backlit keyboard. But now that these features are common-place they are struggling to differentiate their pro line-up.
But with that being said, I think Apple could use a little bit of Ballmers "developers, developers, developers", as they don't offer anything for larger businesses to use for rendering and compiling. Instead we have large app developers cutting screens off MacBooks and racking them ...
I disagree. Most business segments, by large majorities are ERP, CRM, PowerPoints, Word Processing and Emails. Some spreadsheets and other fairly light computational requirements. And trust many of these people may very well work longer on the computer than what most "Pros" do. Staring long at the computer doesn't make it pro usage. Very little in the business segment are in the Pro category.
But business are very reluctant to changes.
Your solution works for shortsighted shareholders who don’t use the products and basically no one else.
Think it'd ever make sense to spin _that_ off? Just the pro market?
I guess then they wouldn't control the means to producing iOS apps, so probably not.
Imagine a world in which ApplePro exists independently and isn't compromised by AppleConsumer's priorities. Would we have waited so long for a MBP update? Would the pro desktop ever be permitted to go years without an update? Would thin & light still be prioritized over repairability and upgradability? Would we have a touchbar?
