Music, graphic design, video have been the core Apple "Pro" markets since forever. Developers focused on anything other than the Apple ecosystem are a relatively new addition to that lineup, and one that Apple hasn't _really_ ever catered to.
Federighi said on stage that developers are their biggest pro users group.
Re:New Mac Pro
by chaostheory on Monday June 03, 2019 @07:30PM
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It feels like empty words similar to Steve Balmer's "Developers, Developers, Developers". Satya Nadella didn't have to say it. You could see it by what Microsoft was doing.
There was a time when research science was on that list as well, and Apple effectively abandoned them - and continue to do so with nonsense like utterly lacking cuda-capable GPUs.
My lab has grant support. I've bought workstations just as expensive as this recently, but then new Apple ones are non-starters, even if I've been using Macs since I was in 2nd grade.
Re:New Mac Pro
by heartbreak on Monday June 03, 2019 @05:43PM
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So you're saying that what everyone meant by "for the pros" was "for me"? Shocking.
> It's for people who don't know what a CPU core is but know how to produce a platinum album, get an Oscar nomination, or bring a revolutionary industrial design to market.
Wait, what? When I say "for pros" I mean able to support latest specs. Something that had the latest NVIDIA cards, or could at least USE the latest NVIDIA cards to do ML or rendering would qualify under most people's definition of Pro I think? Right? When did the definition of Pro become "Music Producer"?