For everyone who's willing to hack, there's a hundred who say forget it and just go on using windows. You guys say there's not a market, but honestly, how big do you think the markets Apple competes in are? Premium thin and light, premium all in one, content creation workstation not what I'd call high volume markets.
I don't think we can really say.
But don't you think Apple does its own marketing surveys?
I would hope they learned something since trying to force stores to take all 4 original iMac colors, or coming out with the Cube.
So why is Apple so reluctant to do a Mac Headless Desktop?
- it seems loads of people would like one - for all the obvious reasons
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- is it just that SteveJ doesn't want to do it, for some unfathomable aesthetic reason?
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- it seems like an easy way for Apple to pick up some sales, which must be a good thing?
We can keep playing musical chairs with the reasons either way, but only Apple knows.
With desktop sales in the toilet for everyone, it's possible that Apple simply isn't interested in investing more on a desktop design. Who knows what they have been doing in their labs that has been abandoned for some reason or other?
Again, I must remind everyone that we are not the general public Apple is after. If Apple doesn't think it's a good idea, it will never see the light, no matter how loudly we protest.
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I just went to the root of the forum list. I never knew this was here. See, Lundy, all this off topic posting led to new discoveries. :-)
For everyone who's willing to hack, there's a hundred who say forget it and just go on using windows. You guys say there's not a market, but honestly, how big do you think the markets Apple competes in are? Premium thin and light, premium all in one, content creation workstation not what I'd call high volume markets.
I don't think we can really say.
But don't you think Apple does its own marketing surveys?
I would hope they learned something since trying to force stores to take all 4 original iMac colors, or coming out with the Cube.
So why is Apple so reluctant to do a Mac Headless Desktop?
- it seems loads of people would like one - for all the obvious reasons
True
- is it just that SteveJ doesn't want to do it, for some unfathomable aesthetic reason?
Always possible!
- it seems like an easy way for Apple to pick up some sales, which must be a good thing?
We can keep playing musical chairs with the reasons either way, but only Apple knows.
With desktop sales in the toilet for everyone, it's possible that Apple simply isn't interested in investing more on a desktop design. Who knows what they have been doing in their labs that has been abandoned for some reason or other?
Again, I must remind everyone that we are not the general public Apple is after. If Apple doesn't think it's a good idea, it will never see the light, no matter how loudly we protest.