Since the introduction of the multicolor iMac, Apple has been moving steadily towards a line of luxury-ish mass market products. Updates and refreshes in Apple's lines of high-performance "computers" will only continue to become fewer and further between.
>> Since the introduction of the multicolor iMac, Apple has >> been moving steadily towards a line of luxury-ish mass market products.
That would've been twenty years ago. The only "interesting" boxes that appeared before then were the Mac II NuBus machines, and even then because there was no alternative.
History at that time moved very slowly - it allowed for an Apple II class machine to be sold into the 1990s; after that, the benefit of a tightly designed custom motherboard and software combination trailed dramatically against the cost of supporting software. Sure, a DayStar 40MHz accelerator card was the bees knees at only only like $1,040, but it didn't do anything even remotely like moving the software forward like the (2004) intel transition. (And compatibility was severely lacking from third parties for third party pro options.)
(Please do note though, I <3 m68k. I wish the world had taken another track - but I don't think i'd have been significantly better off.)
Ya just don't buy a Mac every two years. It's been so effective for so long, that it's too painful to replace, even if it's far easier to replace than a Windows box.
Oh, they haven't forgotten.
Since the introduction of the multicolor iMac, Apple has been moving steadily towards a line of luxury-ish mass market products. Updates and refreshes in Apple's lines of high-performance "computers" will only continue to become fewer and further between.
Edit: Why down vote this?