This article from Cnet, while certainly not big news, is interesting for
those who follow the Mac. While I absolutely love iOS and would never
give up my iPhone, my feelings about desktop computing have changed in
the past year. While the Mac is a stable, capable and accessible
platform I still prefer Windows for serious computing. Mac desktops are
still more expensive than machines running Windows, partially due to the
fact that there are many manufacturers producing desktops running
Windows, whereas Apple is the only company allowed, at least legally, to
produce computers running the Mac operating system, or Mac OS. More
third party screen readers provide more options and, in many cases,
better accessibility to Windows compared to what you get with VoiceOver
on the Mac, which is the only screen reader available for the Mac,
although Zoomtext is available as an alternative screen enlarger. Also,
Microsoft is innovating with Windows and with Windows hardware in ways
that Apple is not with the Mac. That being said, here's the article from
CNet ..
cnet.com
Apple committed to 'great desktops,' Tim Cook tells employees
Steven Musil
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Remember the Mac Pro from 2013? Some wonder if Apple does.
Photo by CNET
Tim Cook is apparently trying to dispel the feeling that Apple has
abandoned the desktop.
Though the company released an overhauled MacBook Pro laptop in October,
it's been years since much of its Mac lineup of desktops has been
updated. That has led to pessimism among the Mac faithful that Apple is
forsaking the desktop.
Not true, Cook told employees through postings to an internal message board.
"Some folks in the media have raised the question about whether we're
committed to desktops," Cook wrote in a posting obtained by Techcrunch.
"If there's any doubt about that with our teams, let me be very clear:
we have great desktops in our roadmap. Nobody should worry about that."
While Apple detailed its new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar at an event in
October, its lack of news about any other new hardware products didn't
go unnoticed.
After all, the last iMac update came in late 2015, while the Mac Mini
was last updated in October 2014. The Mac Pro, Apple's powerhouse
canister Mac desktop computer, made its debut three years ago but hasn't
been updated since.
Despite that, Cook explained that he sees the desktop as being "very
strategic" for the company.
"It's unique compared to the notebook because you can pack a lot more
performance in a desktop -- the largest screens, the most memory and
storage, a greater variety of I/O, and fastest performance," he wrote.
"So there are many different reasons why desktops are really important,
and in some cases critical, to people."
Apple representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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