When the Mac mini goes pro, will the pros get Mac minis?

It is a funny situation, Apple wants most of the people to move to iPad, and leave the Mac for pro uses. That is a perfectly fine strategy excepts its execution has been rather poor by Apple&#x27;s standard.<p>The iPad aren&#x27;t anywhere near ready for business uses. And the Mac aren&#x27;t being loved by the Pros.<p>In the old days Apple would have continue to do small improvement to the Mac and milk the hell out of it, until iPad overtakes it.

Weird to cite “adventurous hackers who want to figure out how to fit a Mac mini into their car“ as a target market, but not app or web development.

My guess is there won&#x27;t be separate Mac mini and Mac Pro lines but rather something that covers both use cases.

It’s basically for doing iOS app development. The other options are either too weak or not cost effective. Higher end models are usually too expensive.

I have a solution for Apple: that surely no one has thought of: spin off the Mac into it&#x27;s own company. They can keep their shareholders happy with wonderful sales of the iPhone, and the pro users who rely on these computers will have access to real pro gear.

Will the Mac Mini Pro also be designed with insufficiently derated capacitors, shitty ribbon cables that short out, crappy thermal dissipation structures, and a shitty no-fix warranty just like every other post-2010 Apple product?