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If they didn't care, why would they bother with a survey? Asking 'do you use this feature?' is almost the opposite of saying 'Lol, I'm removing this feature, I don't care if you use it'

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Who responds to surveys? People who aren't busy.

Most people who buy MacBook Pros already aren't Pros. That's fine but if you then tailor the machine to people who aren't Pros ("most of our customers"), what are the Pros going to buy?

The Mac Pro was aimed at actual Pros. You can see how well that went.

The previous slots-and-bays Mac Pro was aimed at pros, generally. The current one is aimed at one specific niche. (I'm not actually sure what that niche is, only that I'm not in it.)

I'm kind of convinced the nMP was aimed at medium to large scale graphics video production houses. The kind of place where assets are kept on a SAN, accessed over a 10Gbit Ethernet, and no local storage is used at all.

They basically walked away from the single-user/boutique studio who don't need the complexity and structure of running a large datacenter. It was completely mind-boggling choice.

If people don't respond to an RFC they're in a poor position to complain later.

> The Mac Pro was aimed at actual Pros. You can see how well that went.

True, but they didn't ship it supporting any of the CUDA software pros actually use

I mean, yea, at least they're asking... but look at the wording and response choices - they ask "...do you ever use..." and don't seem interested in how heavily you use it or how important a feature you feel it is.

So that when they remove it and there is outcry, they can push back on the negative press by releasing their survey results.

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