John Ripley

Apple has been tightening the screws on "you don't actually own this computer" for years, and in that context, the Mac Pro no longer makes sense to them as a product. https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro/

The Mac Pro existed in a niche where an Apple customer wanted some feature _not quite met_ by any other product. The Mac Pro enabled that: expansion, extra compute power, graphics, etc. Honestly, it's too small a market to matter, but pushing your customers into competing platforms never worked out well.

Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future hardware - 9to5Mac

It’s the end of an era: Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is being discontinued. It has...

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Mar 26 at 9:17pmWeb
Show threadJohn Ripley1d ago
I used to joke that at some point Apple would stop caring about developers so much that it would no longer build a computer capable of developing their own OS. I guess that sets the lower limit of the "power user" products.