<story><title>Open Letter to Tim Cook</title><url>https://petersphilo.org/2016/10/29/open-letter-to-tim-cook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmeller</author><text>Apple built its PC business on the backs of creative professionals because they were among the few groups who thought Macs were worth more than $0.00, thanks to its superior experience with Adobe&amp;#x27;s creative suite when compared to Windows.&lt;p&gt;Apple now has a dominant position in the PC market, not because they catered to creative professionals, but because  they listened to their initial creative audience and focused on making their computers better.&lt;p&gt;Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t focus on the Mac Pro because they want to abandon creatives, it is simply because the Mac Pro doesn&amp;#x27;t enable any meaningful use-cases not served by the 5k iMac or its notebook line.&lt;p&gt;Form-factor, screen quality, battery life, weight, speed of I&amp;#x2F;O, and all the other design goals the author dismisses, are perhaps the most important metrics meaningful for the current generation of laptop buyers, including professionals.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grzm</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t focus on the Mac Pro because they want to abandon creatives, it is simply because the Mac Pro doesn&amp;#x27;t enable any meaningful use-cases not served by the 5k iMac or its notebook line.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well said. This thought has been banging around in my head half-formed for the past couple of days. Thanks for expressing it so succinctly. I think this also answers why Apple has made the decision to limit&amp;#x2F;remove expansion and upgrade options in their hardware.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Apple built its PC business on the backs of creative professionals because they were among the few groups who thought Macs were worth more than $0.00, thanks to its superior experience with Adobe&amp;#x27;s creative suite when compared to Windows.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This idea of creatives being the core market for Apple during its early years is often floated. I&amp;#x27;m not questioning its veracity, though I&amp;#x27;m curious if anyone knows of references that backs this up with numbers or research? Education was a pretty big market early on as well. How do they compare?</text></comment>
<story><title>Open Letter to Tim Cook</title><url>https://petersphilo.org/2016/10/29/open-letter-to-tim-cook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmeller</author><text>Apple built its PC business on the backs of creative professionals because they were among the few groups who thought Macs were worth more than $0.00, thanks to its superior experience with Adobe&amp;#x27;s creative suite when compared to Windows.&lt;p&gt;Apple now has a dominant position in the PC market, not because they catered to creative professionals, but because  they listened to their initial creative audience and focused on making their computers better.&lt;p&gt;Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t focus on the Mac Pro because they want to abandon creatives, it is simply because the Mac Pro doesn&amp;#x27;t enable any meaningful use-cases not served by the 5k iMac or its notebook line.&lt;p&gt;Form-factor, screen quality, battery life, weight, speed of I&amp;#x2F;O, and all the other design goals the author dismisses, are perhaps the most important metrics meaningful for the current generation of laptop buyers, including professionals.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flukus</author><text>&amp;gt; Apple now has a dominant position in the PC market, not because they catered to creative professionals, but because they listened to their initial creative audience and focused on making their computers better.&lt;p&gt;How are they at all dominant in the PC market?</text></comment>