Apple did NOT release a new Mac Pro this week, but did something they normally don’t do instead: they talked about their plans for the Mac Pro. The delay is because of four big things working against them: They are distracted by the new campus, they guessed wrong on the future of GPUs, larger products (by sales volume) keep taking precedence, and the product/manufacturing wasn’t flexible enough to easily adapt. This is why the product the languished. It also calls into question their leadership structure, and the dude at the top: Tim Cook.
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Show Notes
Seth Godin shares that computers slowly take over tasks that we really didn’t want to do to begin with. So we will happily welcome AI as it comes.
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Oath is the empty husk of former industrial giants: AOL and Yahoo. We’re not sure what that means, but probably nothing meaningful.
Oath: A Verizon Company
Marissa Mayer Is Out Of Oath, Shocking Literally No One
Apple invited a small group of reporters to talk about the next Mac Pro. Basically, there won’t be one this year, but they haven’t given up on it yet. It sounds like 4 big things worked against them: They were distracted by the new campus, they guessed wrong on the future of GPUs, larger products (by sales volume) kept taking precedence, and the product/manufacturing wasn’t flexible enough to easily change.
Apple, I Can’t Even
There’s A Pro iMac Coming This Year
The Mac Pro Lives
Apple, Inc. Admits Mac Pro Design Flaw
Neither Tim Cook Or Jonny Ives Were At This Meeting
Who Has Taken Over At Apple?
If this was Apple 7 Years ago, I think it might have stopped the company dead in its tracks.
How Did The Mac Pro Even Happen?
Apple Has To Catch Up To HP What is this? 1995?
Some Interesting, If Speculative, Details
If you find iMovie too much work, check out Clips. It’s really a light version for creating simple videos.
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Jeff Bezos Is The Second Richest Person, Behind Gates
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