> skilled creative professionals is a/the core userbase for Apple products.

Then why doesn't it have a professional CAD application?

It does.

AutoCAD came to the Mac when Intel was shitting the bed (with aggressive OEM contracts for first party system integrators that prevented AMD adoption across HP/Dell/Lenovo-lines) and Windows 11 was being forced on users.

WINTEL played the monopoly game too hard and is starting to lose ground.

You love to see it.

Even Apple doesn't do CAD on OSX. They run Siemens NX on Windows.

But your statement isn't quite right. Fusion 360 runs fine in mac. I'm ex-Apple btw.

Ok, that's good to know, but my colleagues all use SolidWorks so it doesn't change much for me.

Uhh

> The problem is AI current best use case is creative work, art, music, programming

By “best” do you mean “marketable?”

Seems weird to see a bunch of creatives and creative professionals “disdain” a tool and still say it’s “best” for them…

An oft-cited quote goes something like this: "we wanted robots/AI to automate boring, routine, meaningless jobs to let people be free to pursue arts, music, creativity. It's a sad state of affairs that AI is taking over arts/music/creativity stranding people with boring, routine, meaningless jobs"

> It's a sad state of affairs that AI is taking over arts/music/creativity stranding people with boring, routine, meaningless jobs"

So far it’s not though.

Oh. It already is. Artists are already saying that a lot of commission work is drying out (e.g. illustrations).

> The problem is AI current best use case is creative work, art, music, programming

This is where it’s being pushed and marketed but I’m not actually sure it’s the best use case.