[namelost]

I wish Apple would just make their own ATX case (or any other standard *TX form factor), their own ATX motherboard with their TPM on it, and then use commodity components for everything else. I'd pay a huge premium for that product, but Apple is so far up their own ass trying to imitate themselves they can't see what their customers really need.

[pjmlp]

They tried that in the past.

It was one of the first things Jobs "fixed".

[namelost]

If you mean the clones, that's not exactly what I'm suggesting. I want Apple to continue building computers, but to use industry standard form factors, and to use as many commodity components as possible.

They could get such a product out faster than 2019 and it would be better than whatever they will end up announcing. Instead we have to wait a year for Apple to figure out how to make a computer that is 'pretty' and 'innovative' enough for Apple, even when their professional customers don't give a toss how pretty or innovative it is.

[jonhendry18]

I think perhaps they mean something like the Intel-based developer boxes offered to Mac software developers, between the announcement of the move to Intel and the offical release of Intel Macs. It was basically a not very fancy motherboard with an Intel CPU, in a G5 PowerMac case with a different arrangement of fans.

[wilsonnb]

I find it likely that Apple knows what their customers need more than random people commenting on the internet know what Apple's customers need.

[mixmastamyk]

Obviously not, they haven't had a competitive product in the space for ~five years.