After the unveiling of the new Mac Pro on Monday at WWDC, Doug Brooks, the Apple Product Manager for the new machine, joined the Mac Power Users podcast with David Sparks and Stephen Hackett. In the interview, Brooks offers interesting detail on Apple’s Pro Workflow, the Mac Pro design, and more.
Brooks explained in the interview that the Pro Workflows Team, which Apple first detailed last year, is a “deep investment” in the company’s efforts in the pro industry. He notes that the focus of the team ranges from the new Mac Pro all the way down to the MacBook Pro and iPad Pro:
That team is really a deep investment on what we’re doing here in the pro space. And it goes well beyond just Mac Pro to MacBook Pro and even iPad Pro. You’re going to see the benefits and the implications of that team across all of our Mac products and our pro products.
The teams really consist of two kinds of people. Artists and creatives who came out of the industry, in the video, audio, and 3D space as examples. They were creative professionals who brought their talents inside. And system architecture people, who they can be coupled with, and who are deep computer scientists who can look at performance and system traces, and architectural details on what it takes to achieve given task.
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