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Pillonel says he designed the case as a response to planned obsolescence. He wants people to get more life out of older devices without having to upgrade or rely on fragile accessories.

The design of his case has the USBC port in the corner. All it takes is a drop on that corner and that port could become unusable.

And since it is a case, something people change out quite a bit, is it any more sustainable than this?




Or just continuing to use existing Lightning cables, which there is many?

Thresher-the-Shark said:

I actually liked them and still have a couple. They just never should have been sold as a Mac Pro.

I also think they could have been noticeably better if they had been just a bit bigger to allow for a larger heatsink, included a 2nd SSD slot, and included a fan in the bottom in addition to the one it came with on the top. This could have allowed for better cooling via push-pull action, and potentially avoided the thermal headroom corner Apple backed themselves into. Although, also as hinted by Apple execs, it came out right before dual GPU setups started going by the wayside in favor of more powerful single GPUs. Inefficiencies, communication bottlenecks, and memory sharing issues all contributed to the relegation of AMD CrossFire/nVidia SLI to niche use cases.

Somewhat ironically though the 2013 cylindrical Mac Pro did eventually make a comeback. It's just now a cuboid and is called the Mac Studio.

Like I've said so many times, I would like someone to write a book about what Apple was thinking and why they shipped the products they did from 2012 to 2017. The 2013 Mac Pro and iOS 7 were the first big results of the Jony Ive era at Apple, and Cook's reorg. Apple's sense of computing took a detour for a while.

By the looks of it, Apple knew the 2013 Mac Pro was a mistake within about a year after shipping, by late 2014 or so, and resolved not to put any more money into it. They proceeded to put their workstation development budget on the iMac Pro by 2015 or so. They could have updated the 2013 Mac Pro form factor with newer Xeons and single 300 W GPU if they wanted. They could have made it work. They didn't. And, they had to think the iMac Pro was temporary and actually started working on the Mac Pro again in 2017 for the 2019 model.

The 2013 design had the 3 big heat generators share one heat sink. That likely means the GPUs and the CPU had to have a certain amount of heat generated or power consumption. Having one that is way higher could mean it heating up the other components. So the "unified thermal" architecture limited components due to this. But they could have re-designed it too. Heat sinks could have been made independent. They could have designed it for 1 300 W Xeon and 1 300 GPU.

blastdoor said:

For any successful CEO close to retirement, their most important remaining job is working with the board to find successor candidates. Steve Jobs did his job well — he picked Cook. One thing that is especially remarkable about Jobs’ pick is that Cook is very different from Jobs. It would be very tempting to pick a “mini me” as a replacement. For Jobs, that might have been Ive. But because Jobs cared more about Apple than his ego, he picked someone very different from himself because he knew that is what Apple needed next. And Jobs was right Cook was great for Apple in the ten years after Jobs left. 

But Cook is no longer the best leader for Apple and Apple does not need a mini Cook as the next CEO. So Cook needs to find the right yin to his yang to be the next CEO.

Gurman already rumored the succession planning last year. Jeff Williams would take over in the short term. John Ternus would take over in the long term. So, if Cook retires in 2026, John Ternus will be CEO according to this rumor. With Williams retiring, maybe it just pulls forward Ternus' training.

Apple's executive suite has been remarkably stable for nearly 3 decades now. Schiller is still hanging around. Joswiak has been there since the 90s too. Eddy Cue similarly has been there 30+ years. Federighi has been software SVP for 13 years now. Ternus has been a big plus since taking over ad hardware SVP. Alan Dye looks like he will be the design lead for a while.

CEO of Apple is not a fun job. Unfortunately, Apple is a nation-state level actor, and that means the CEO job is not a "product" job anymore. It's not even a "product strategy" job anymore. Steve Jobs would despise being CEO of Apple today. The major portion of the CEO of Apple today is to talk to, meet with, and to deal with the most despicable people on the planet: politicians, lawyers, dictators. All-in-all, just unreasonable people. Who in Tartarus wants to deal with that everyday?

Surprised that Ternus even wants the job. No practical person would want that type of job.

What's the maximum number of windows that can be open, per display? Seems like the number is 12, which is not a lot.

If there would 15 Safari windows open, or a mix and match of 30 Safari windows and tabs, does iPadOS 26 kill the old windows and tabs? Does it reload?

Controller and game engine support are nice to have features for the visionOS feature set, but what would really help is Apple actually publishing games that people want to play, and have hardware that are at mass market prices.