“I think we designed ourselves into a bit of a thermal corner, if you will. At the time, Schiller said that Apple had wanted to build a new Mac Pro design that would last for 'another ten years.' But that’s not what happened, and Apple is willing to admit that it was because of engineering problems based on a poor prediction of where high-end computing was headed. When Phil “can’t-innovate-my-ass” Schiller unveiled that new Mac Pro in mid-2013, surely the plan was not to let it sit and rot for three years before pledging to replace it with something completely different. Apple declined to get very specific about its plans, but let’s sift through some tea leaves and suss out some possible directions that Apple’s desktops could take from here. So, the unusual amount of uncertainty about desktops prompted an unusual response: a sit-down conversation about products that won’t be announced or released until later this year or next (or possibly even later than that). Credible reports around the same time that suggested Apple had de-emphasized and slowed down Mac development internally only added fuel to the fire. In an internal memo a couple of months later, CEO Tim Cook said the company had “great desktops in his roadmap,” but that’s the stock boilerplate response to any questions about future products. It had been a year since the iMac got an update, two years since the Mac Mini was updated, and more than three years since we heard a single peep about the Mac Pro. Apple appeared to be pulling out of the external display business, and its new pro laptops offered less RAM and had worse battery life than some people were happy with. After the October 2016 product came and went with no mention of the rumored desktops, complaints and anxiety about the state of Apple’s high-end computers reached a fever pitch (my barometer for this sort of thing is what John Siracusa, Marco Arment, and a handful of developers I follow say on their podcasts and Twitter feeds, which is highly unscientific, but I don't think that makes it inaccurate). That's the state of the Mac desktop right now. Further Reading Explaining the battery life problems with the new MacBook Pros

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