[Ipg-smz] Desktop 2025 - excellent analysis, but I differ on one conclusion

[Lee Schlesinger]

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3510465/desktop-2025.html for the
curious.

On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 1:24 PM Phil Shapiro via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

>
>    I agree with a lot of sjvn's prediction in his recent ComputerWorld
> piece, but I have a difference about MacOS still flourishing in 2025.
>
>        The way I read the tea leaves, MacOS will exit stage right before
> then.  Gone, gone, gone. Apple is no longer a computer company.
> They changed their name 10 years ago from Apple Computer to Apple.  That,
> dear friends, was a foreshadowing.
>
>        Their future focus will be on electric cars and other new tech we
> can't imagine yet (but they can).
>
>               MacOS might continue to live in the cloud, as a service, along
> the lines of Macincloud.com
>
>                  And your $10,000 iMac Pro?  You can try selling it on
> eBay for $750, but you might not get that much for it.
>
>                             phil
>
> Consider this, too. Why would Apple cede the video editing market to
> Adobe, when they came out with Final Cut Pro X? Because they wanted to
> wean
> their pro clients off their own platform -- to make it less jarring when
> they pull the plug.
>
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