Record profits for Apple, yet no new MacPro??
I keep "waiting" for the new line of MacPro and nothing, nada, zip?
I have a hard time understanding how Apple can have huge record profits and yet continue to refuse to allocate any significant resources to continuation of the MacPro line???
Same goes with their Pro applications such as Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro (an no FCP X doesn't hack it, just an expensive version of iMovie Pro as far as I'm concerned).
So what's the deal Apple? What sense is there in abandoning your Pro hardware and Pro applications when you have money to burn? If nothing more, it would solidify Apple as something more than a "gadget" company.
I think Apple under estimate just how much it will cost them to not have a "Pro" anything (hardware or software). Influence of Pro hardware/software is far more than looking at simple sales numbers of MacPro and FCP and Logic Pro -- any executive can make incorrect decisions based on those numbers alone ... the smarter executives will see beyond that.
Rob