Goodbye Macintosh?

[Quartz]

It's a real possibility. So sayeth John Dvorak.

Apple is the master of radical pivots...

A very memorable pivot came when the company dropped the Apple II line of machines with an event called Apple II Forever. While it extolled the venerable machine with a fancy new model, it marked the end of the system.

What I'm sensing is that like the old Apple II (forever), the Mac will be phased out and the whole line will be replaced by iPads.

I'm a PC guy but I will be sad to see the Mac go.

 

[Quartz]

No way imo. Creative tasks such as video editing, photo editing, audio recording and more can be done on iPads but never to the same level and ease of use as a dedicated Mac computer.

But they can all be done on a PC nowadays, can't they? The Dell 8K display doesn't work on a Mac, does it?

 

[Quartz]

Indeed, Microsoft dropping the Windows Phone and porting Office to Android could be the first steps of them abandoning Windows for Android.