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I think this "assurance" pretty much confirms for me that Apple has internally begun to shift even more resources away from the Mac and the Macbook.

The very weak nature of the response which really does not provide any specifics what-so-ever is very typical when the underlying reality matches the rumor but the guy in charge just can't say it yet.

Tim Cook is Apple's Ballamer - An ops. guy, great for the bottom line but fundamentally stuck in the past.

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> Tim Cook is Apple's Ballmer - An ops. guy, great for the bottom line but fundamentally stuck in the past.

"Stuck in the present" might be a bit more fair :)

I think you're are a bit unfair to Ballmer, recently he admitted that they were late to the game but he was pushing for hardware and was not supported by the board[1]. Not everything MS is doing is becaus Ballmer is gone but also because Ballmer prepared Microsoft for it.

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-04/steve-bal...

> everything MS is doing is becaus Ballmer is gone but also because Ballmer prepared Microsoft for it.

There is very little evidence for this. An argument can be made for laying the ground work for Azure, but Ballmer had nothing to do with MS's recent efforts in open source and other exciting newer initiatives in the company.

The response is weak and uninformative because it's posted on an internal message board, which might as well be a public Reddit thread as far as an exec is concerned. Did you expect him to post a picture of Jony Ive posing in front of 25 iMac ID prototypes? If he says anything else he's said too much.

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