is there a future where apple stops producing macs?

Nah. Apple knows culture is produced on Macs. It’s an intangible

but what will they use to make everything else if they stop

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At some point the compute power of a laptop will be marginally better than phones for most creator use cases. It’s there now for consumer use cases. You will dock the phone to your keyboard, mouse, large monitor or headset, and do your work. So… yes, I think so.

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it would be interesting to know how much of it is actually driven by mac vs iphone

I can imagine sales working differently now that the Apple silicon is flowing. The M chips have wayyyyyyy longer shelf life than any of the intel crap that was already years behind on release.

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that's another way to interpret the chart - producers vs consumers

Mac is the cornerstone of creative work, used for content production. iPod is used for consuming content, and when people update their medium for consuming content, it naturally becomes meaningless. But we always need tools to produce content, just like Mac.

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it took them a long time to discontinue it

How on earth are there more iPods sold than Macs?