ElCapitan

corrections said:

ElCapitan said:

>However, Apple hasn't been actively pushing Macs at Windows users lately. Actually Apple hasn't been actively pushing Macs at a rather large group of existing Mac users either.
Mini, Mac Pro and to some extent MacBook Pro users have been neglected, pushed out in the cold for years. Add to them macOS Server users, and with the deprecation of OpenGL, an entire class of high end graphics and scientific users from whom the ability of running iOS apps is virtually irrelevant.

Yes.
The installed base of Mac users is ~150M. 
The installed base of iOS users is ~1,150M

The media narrative that Apple isn't updating Macs 

Media narrative? - What planet are you living on?

Besides ALL the iOS users are 100% dependent on Macs.

Not a single app is created without a Mac. 

NOT catering to the developer community who creates and maintains those apps is over time cutting the branch you sit on. 

NOT catering to the IT professionals running the backends and infrastructures for those devices in everything from small businesses to large enterprises  is over time cutting the branch you sit on.

However, Apple hasn't been actively pushing Macs at Windows users lately.

Actually Apple hasn't been actively pushing Macs at a rather large group of existing Mac users either.

Mini, Mac Pro and to some extent MacBook Pro users have been neglected, pushed out in the cold for years. Add to them macOS Server users, and with the deprecation of OpenGL, an entire class of high end graphics and scientific users from whom the ability of running iOS apps is virtually irrelevant.

KITA said:

linkman said:

KITA said:

Referencing old Surface failures, or the Zune, is just silly at this point. They're well past that stage.

No they aren't past their failures. I'm seeing a big hardware failure rate at work with the Surface Pro 4 model, which is a very recent model.

A Surface from 2015 isn't exactly what I would call "very recent".

Apple would call it that given the Mini and Pro have had no upgrades since 2014 and 2013 respectively. 

The hard fact of dropping OpenGL support is that over time macOS users will lose access to a whole class of applications now available to them. 

If Apple think this loss can be compensated by making another class of less powerful iOS applications accessible to macOS users, they are delusional.