I have increasingly little hope that apple will make pro focused hardware ever again. The company does not seem to care about the mac anymore at all.
How does it feel to belong to the Blackberry of Apple? Do they get laughed at during lunch breaks?
If I had to take a wild guess, they've been going stir crazy waiting for the new HQ to be built. From what I know, they've got a lot of employees crammed in lots of temporary offices. They may also have temporarily slowed hiring.
All of that could add up to multiple problems all over the company. Like a skeleton crew struggling to get the ship back to port for refitting.