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National Donut Day is June 7th which falls just before WWDC?  I know that is trying to read into to the cryptic, but not that far fetched. 

My M1 MacBook Pro 13 is humming along nicely but I would upgrade to that new 15 inch MacBook Air for the added screen real estate.  The only part that seems a little off is the timing?  Late 23, Early 24 means the M2 would be 18-24 months old at the point?  Doesnt make sense to debut a 2 brand new models, with an almost 2 year old architecture.  If I was a betting person I would peg them for WWDC 2024 and release it with the new M3 chip and 32 GB of RAM max for the Air.  This will launch it out of the park.  If you are going to build it on the M2 then I think Apple would surprise us all and release it this year, at the late fall event while the M2 is still fresh.  I am no Gurman or Kuo but this sure would make sense to me.  

Honestly I wish they would focus on a bigger version of its lower end iPads.  Maybe an iPad+ with a 12.5 inch screen or an iPad Air+ with a 12.7 inch screen.  The fact that they are reserving bigger screens for the pro models makes no sense when every day uses would like the real estate as well.

I was really liking where this editorial was going and then it fell off a cliff when when the writer started suggesting that Apple license MacOS to help propogate it and take on Windows...Does anyone remember the PowerPC?  Does anyone remember why it failed?  Its because the minute you license the OS to multiple hardware vendors it severely degraded Apple's ability to maintain stability on its platform because it could no longer test all of the variable hardware configurations and as a result MacOS became so buggy that Apple almost died because of it...Then to suggest that they try and take on Microsoft by buying up a few competing software suites is so short-sited its not even funny...Apple is not going to erode Windows domination by buying or building competing software suites because Microsoft still dominates the business infrastructure...What does that mean?  Well Windows is your domain controller, windows desktops/laptops connect to domain controller to gain access to other windows services like shared network drives, email, sharepoint sites etc.  When Apple moved away from Xserve they essentially killed the ecosystem that would have allowed them to erode the Windows Platform...This cannot be accomplished by simply throwing a few competing software suites out there because businesses drive consumer demand, not the other way around...

THIS is why the lack of updates to the iMac, Mac Pro and Mac Mini are eventually going to lead to Apples downfall...yes downfall.  Because the reason why iPhones, and iPads and Macbooks are so popular is because the heavy hitter developers, artists and video/audio philes are what brought Apple products to the masses...And moving away from those products will result in those high end users moving away from Mac to other platforms and slowly taking with them the continuity with those other product lines that was asked for by those high-end users in the first place. 

Apple needs to step up to the times...Drop the Apple TV line and update the Mac Mini with an integrated Apple TV interface.  Let it run as a Plex Server, Streaming Media Player and lite Mac machine to get the MacOS out to the masses and increase adoption.

Bring back the All aluminum Mac Pro and give power users the ability to upgrade components with Apple Certified replacement parts.

Finally let the iMac be that Cross-Blend of MacPro and Mac Mini.  Intergrate the Apple TV app into iMac but give it the power to run higher end tasks and labor intensive software.

Apple don't forget the users that lifted you from the depths of obscurity...