Marco Arment

What?

I thought this was a dead product.

It was just dead for a little while.

But Apple wants you to know this is not a HomePod situation.

This is a dead, dead situation.

As in, we have no plans for another one.

It's not like there's going to be a new Mac Pro next year's WWDC or something like that.

Just forget it.

yeah yeah it was like don't don't wait for a 27 inch one when this 24 inch one is out like we're not gonna happen um and and you know these statements are always like we have no plans um which means they currently have no plans in five years there could be plans but you know all they're saying is it's not going to be a home pod situation we're not discontinuing this because we ran out of stock before wwc that's not the situation

Yeah, and again, it shouldn't be a surprise for anyone who's watching Apple or listening to this program because the product was so incredibly dead.

I mean, obviously, as soon as they didn't put the M3 Ultra in it to even continue the farce of it being a Mac Studio in a bigger case, they didn't even continue that.

So clearly, this has been dead for a long time.

The only thing I have to say retrospectively about it is, again, a repeat of things I've said in the past, but people don't listen to every episode.

The Mac Pro is essentially the only failure of Apple Silicon because the job of Apple Silicon was to replace Intel processors with Apple processors in all of Apple's products.

And it did do that eventually to great effect in every single product, to amazing effect in every product.

except one, and it's the Mac Pro.

And it's not because Apple had a difference of opinion and said, well, we don't need a big computer like the Mac Pro.

They planned to make a chip for the Mac Pro, but they could not do it economically.

There was at least the M1 plan for like the M1, like big giant mega processor.

yeah the quad stuck together chip um there was diagrams of it there was things leaked from apple or whatever i'm not sure how far extended past that german says in 2022 they can their final plan for like a quad processor or whatever but it's a thing that they wanted to do but they could not do it and there's a million reasons why like you're not going to sell a lot of them it's very expensive yada yada