Apple today announced some major new products, with long overdue updates to the iMac, Mac Pro, Cinema Display and an innovative new multi-touch trackpad for desktop systems they’re calling the Magic Trackpad.
Only a couple of years ago these products would have been launched with some fanfare, but now only the iMac even makes it onto the Apple homepage (and then only very small at the bottom of the page along with the iPhone case program and the iOS 4.01 software update). The big story is still that the “iPhone 4 is here”, old news now surely.
It really does show where Apple is heading though. The external Mac Pro case design hasn’t seen a major update for over 7 years (over 4 generations in computer time) and before today the Mac Pro hadn’t received any updates at all for over a year and a half. The iMac, once the biggest thing in Apple land, had gone over a year before this update.
Apple certainly does seem to be relegating it’s OS X machines to second class citizen status as it concentrates on the iPhone and iPad which now account for more revenue than desktop and laptop Mac divisions added together.