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A factual error in the article, in my interview with John Sculley for the film, Love Notes to Newton, he is adamant that it was Apple’s board, never him, who wanted to license the MacOS to other manufacturers, and that is one reason why Sculley was forced out in 1993. The clip is not in the film, but maybe I should make it available.

To comment on those who are critiquing altivec88 and as a fellow Pro Mac user, the issue is not that he can't run his business with the 2013 Mac Pro, but that the uncertainty of whether he should be using Macs in a pro environment at all is causing pro's a lot of stress, myself included. We can't tell if we should be waiting a few weeks when we need to add or replace a workstation, for Apple to finally give us a reason to happily continue using mac towers, or sadly switch to Windows when we need a new machine with high-end specs. Deep down we know that it isn't really that hard for Apple to do these things, so they probably just don't care anymore, and that makes pros everywhere feel... :-(

In regards to the eMate 300: that was probably Apple's most successful Newton product, so saying "Apple stopped selling it because its production wasn't sustainable." is not really correct. Apple stopped selling it because Steve Jobs wanted to focus the company on the core business, which was doing poorly because Apple had, upon ousting John Sculley, started licensing the Mac OS to clone makers in a race to the bottom. It's the Mac business which is more like the Chromebook business, not the eMate. It was nice to see it mentioned, though. There's a documentary coming out about Newton soon. You should Google it. ;-)

The FCPX team has really hit their groove. Final Cut has become such a great product (I'm an editor and I now use it every day, having transitioned from FCP7->PremiereCS6->FCPX), it's such a relief for a dedicated Mac user like me (who is "meh" about iPhones) that Apple is continuing to work on excellent Mac software, despite a few bumps on the way.

I wonder how much of this is a stalemate over CUDA support. Possibly Apple won't sign NVIDIA's CUDA drivers, or some nonsense like that.

Apple's offerings are some of the worst price-to-specs, so if consumers on a tight budget are looking for value and don't care about OS, then I wouldn't be surprised by this. Or else maybe the Mac people are finally just buying iPads.

I wish Apple would be more interested in making iPads for schools, and making tools that are accessible for everyone, rather than making premium products. I think that their idea that they have to charge more to distinguish themselves and make good quality products is not just wrong but evil.