The Mac Platform Decline
Wow, I really liked that article. I thought it articulated some really important insights, first that Apple could reasonably be seen as abandoning the core computer user market, and second an acknowledgement that the market they are leaving in favor of the consumer market is probably immaterial to their current business model.<p>It is clear that there are two &quot;kinds&quot; of users of computation platforms, the &quot;apps only&quot; users and &quot;developers.&quot; It is also becoming clear that &quot;content creators&quot; (graphic artists, writers, video producers, Etc) are seen more and more as &quot;apps only&quot; users rather than developers as well, even though their content tools are very demanding on the platform.<p>If they are correct and the market is segmenting, then I think you can expect to see &quot;artist workstations&quot; emerge as a category with tools wrapped around a computer to help in their content creation, I think that certainly became true of synthesizers which have &quot;workstations&quot; as a category distinct from instruments you might play on stage or in a studio setting.