Another way of looking at it is - one company has a deep history of shipping successful and often innovative hardware products, and the other one doesn't.
It's hard to argue that that the one that ships is taking the wrong approach.
It's hard to argue that that the one that ships is taking the wrong approach.
And no one other than yourself thinks that the Mac Pro is going to be a wild success. It's a highly niche product with the Mac Studio being the mainstream version.
It’s a good sign for them but far from convincing
The Series S is the same price, and estimates put it at around half of units sold.
The Mac Pro accounts for 11% of all Mac computers sold and 40-50% (~$20bln) of Mac revenues in 2022 (including laptops); the Mac Studio is only 1% of units shipped. What's your definition of wild success?
Because the Mac Pro outselling the Mac mini by 10x doesn't seem believable to me.
And especially in 2022 when the Intel Mac Pro was being outperformed by the Mac Studio.
Thankfully VFX Reference Platform also accounts for Windows and Linux, https://vfxplatform.com/
And when the GPUs no longer can keep up, one doesn't need to throw away the whole computer.
Through that lens, I don't see Meta has having slacked and failed to capture the market when they're definitely the leader and pushed it a decent amount forward.
The comparison point could be HTC, who's also continuing pushing the envellope but can't touch Meta in terms of scale and price point.