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Apple CEO Tim Cook receives $3.6M from small sale of 30,000 shares, weeks after $1.5M pay ...
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Apple refugees dish on how iPhone development culture echoes into Pearl Automation
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Apple dissolves Mac automation management post, Sal Soghoian to leave company
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Apple cuts prices on USB-C & Thunderbolt 3 gear in response to MacBook Pro backlash
An obnoxious maneuver, born of undiluted hubris and a mercenary neglect of the graphics and media professionals who no longer rank high enough on Apple's sales charts to influence the products. This has been brewing for years, with the most obvious affront being a Mac Pro that hasn't seen an update since its launch in 2013. Building a rich kids' toy like the MacBook Pro - decent power under the hood but clearly designed to give the middle finger to people in complex graphics environments - is offensive but hardly surprising.
Most professionals are at a difficult crossroads. Apple still has the superior OS to Windows 10 and unless Microsoft does something unheard of in its own history, this won't change. But limping along with jury rigged hardware that is clearly designed for web browsing, but that costs in most cases 2x what Windows laptops cost is not sustainable either.
There's a vacuum developing in the pro market and it will be interesting to see who fills in over the next couple years. -
New MacBook Pro models reportedly incompatible with certain Thunderbolt 3 devices [ux2]
williamh said:This was an excellent decision. Apple should have charged more and not had any I/o ports at all.