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BittySon said:

Any word on 32 bit apps?  Support to continue in MacOS?

As far as I could gather from the State of the Platform presentation, 32-bit apps will run also on 10.14, but from then on support for Carbon is gone, and that will be the nail in the coffin for most of 32-bit apps come 10.15. 

The problem described in the article is similar to what I have observed in locations where a city or town has the same name as the county it is located in. Then both Apple and Google map have a tendency to display the county name and place it in the geographical center of the county, rather than the city you were looking for.  For large counties like you have in rural areas, then the name can be placed significantly offset from the city with the same name. 

macxpress said:

I'm sure I provide more of an Apple service to the community than you ever will.

I seriously doubt that you will.  

Having worked in Apple product management I happen to know what goes into the development of the products and how the future product plans are laid out years in advance. I know that not updating a product for multiple years usually means the product is EOL or there is a serious creativity crisis in product development/management. 

Apple's main mantra for product development was always market creation, and they still do in some segments. However the decimation of the ecosystem around macOS signals a company in crisis that no longer are able to create and inspire in the product segment that still carries the company (in that all products rely on code generated on macOS). 

macxpress said:

I'm a person who works in IT who supports macOS, iOS, ChromeOS, Android, and Windows all in one organization. Believe me...I know what works and what doesn't

Maybe you do in your particular company, but you sure as heck know nothing about Apple's user base overall and what makes it tick. 

Actually you come across as someone who would call your users for lusers, because that is the undertone of most of your postings dissing Apple and Apple customers. 

The Apple user base is people looking for the ease of use that has been the hallmark of Apple's system integration in their own ecosystem, and now that base are thrown to each on their own to figure out how to make their system work across system upgrades, diverse components and time.

Tim Cook stands at the risk of throwing out the very core base that was willing to pay a premium price exactly for that integrated environment where all worked.  They came to Apple either because they did not have the time to tinker around or they simply had no interest in the technical issues as they were focused on other, to them more important things, where the Mac became their tool for expression, creativity and business development. 

One of the things a new form factor should support is the ability to be stacked and easily rack mounted in a blade-ish fashion with sufficient cooling (now it draws air from under with exhaust to the back).  We have seen all kinds of creative mounts for the existing one, but none of them are very density efficient. 

Config flexibility from i5, i7, i9 to at least one Xenon. 

Configs that don't come with much graphics power at one end, to at least medium level gaming performance at the other end. 

It's another sign Apple have lost their bearing when it comes to the importance of building ecosystem for and around the Mac. It will also be a loss for small business wanting independence from Microsoft and cloud hosting solutions. It is also a telltale that whatever new Pro and "mini" configurations are planned for 2018 and beyond will have no server class capabilities.