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In the PPC days and early intel, Steve used to brag about framerates and drag out CEO’s from the game industry at the Macworld events. 
Macworld was awesome | WWDC is balls. 

The day they got rid of ‘Happy Mac’ for a grey corporate logo was a monumental shift in consumer ideology. 

lkrupp said:

Is the PC gaming market really that big? Tech sites tend to look at markets through filtered glasses. It would seem the dedicated gaming console market far outnumbers the PC gaming market. Walking around in a Fry’s or MicroCenter the gaming PCs are humongous boxes with LED lighting flashing all over them, ugly as hell. As another commenter said, this sort of thing isn’t in Apple’s playbook because PC gamers like to build customized machines, at least those who I know do.

Maybe the newly announced Mac Pro will have the chops but will be priced accordingly. PC game developers would likely never code for the Mac because the potential customer base is too small to be worthwhile.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/pc-game-sales-numbers-market-share-2017

28% of game market worth over 32b - not including hardware. 

20+ years ago at my old design house, we used wrap up early Fridays, grab some beer, and LAN game into the night... Warcraft and Marathon etc. (Original beige G3’s). 
It cemented our love for the Mac platform, being able to do something other than Adobe, Corel, and ClarisWorks. 
We took pride in our machines, maintaining them, upgrading them, loving them, they were an extension of our identity. 
Now that magic is mostly gone. They are soulless tools for work. The 4th wife - you still love them, but meh. Mostly Utility. 

What some here don’t understand (iPhone investors generation) is that gaming was part of the magic and mojo that kept people passionate about the Mac, and inevitably kept the company alive. It’s largely that same group screaming for true pro Macs - that we can get attached to, give some upgrade love to - instead of the one-night-stand iMacs we got now. 

lkrupp said:

Ewalkaceblu said:

My sincere advice is to leave the Apple ecosystem. If you think for one millisecond Apple is going to produce a Gaming PC you are living in another universe. No, really, you are. And then you proceed to trash everything else about Apple except for macOS. You say you’re impressed with iPhones and iPads but then say iOS is boring. After years of “disappointment” and “depression” you are way past leaving the platform. Go. Leave. Be happy. Apple most assuredly does not care about your user demographic. Serious PC gamers wouldn’t touch a Mac with a ten foot pole. Go to a Frys or MicroCenter, buy a bunch of parts off the shelves and put together your dream gaming machine and be done with it. Seriously. You don’t belong here and probably will not respond either.

Harsh man. 
I would argue that every single Mac user wishes they could play games better on their Mac - who wouldn’t want a better GPU? 
Who wouldn’t want a better graphics engine?

There are millions of users who play games on their Mac. Most playing Blizz games cuz that’s all that runs half decent on the Mac. 
Lots of Pros play games on their macs. 

I think you underestimate the frustration of Mac users. 

tomasulu said:

I’m a huge fan of Apple. I’ve pretty much all of their products from watches to desktops and everything in between. But I also agreed that Apple is in a general state of decline in terms of their ability to innovate and to think big. I see companies like Tesla, Google and even Amazon leading the way and going out of their comfort zone. Apple seems to be stuck in trying to do thing so perfectly and with craftsmanship that they’re not trying hard enough. Yeah having a biometric authentication method that’s 2 years ahead of your competitor is wonderful. But it’s not denting the universe. I don’t see anything from Apple that is going to fundamentally changed our lives. Like how it was when Steve disrupted so many industries. Even the secretive Apple car is simply a me-too trying to catch up to Google and tesla.

Apple is sorely missing a visionary. 
They have the numbers guy, the have some designers and capable engineers, they have a good marketing team. 
They are missing the visionary. 

Tim needs to move to CFO and get a young visionary at the head of the Apple - before they deplete the iOS device innovation revolution that Steve set up for them. 
Get rid of Ives. I used to like his work, but his time has passed.