The ironic thing is how much simpler it would have been for Apple to give people what they actually wanted.
All anyone wanted was a retina macbook air. That's it. Everyone was perfectly happy and just wanted a nicer screen.
All anyone wanted was a mac pro tower with updated SATA and USB speeds and new processors, etc. That's it.
Instead, in both cases, we got silly weird things that nobody wants. I'm never going to buy the non-tower mac pro. Similarly, when the new touchbar macbooks were announced, I ran to the apple store and bought a nice, new max spec 11" air to hold in reserve in my closet.
Now I'm covered on the laptop front for at least five more years and apple has cumulatively lost out on 3-4 laptop and mac pro purchases from me.
All anyone wanted was a retina macbook air. That's it. Everyone was perfectly happy and just wanted a nicer screen.
All anyone wanted was a mac pro tower with updated SATA and USB speeds and new processors, etc. That's it.
Instead, in both cases, we got silly weird things that nobody wants. I'm never going to buy the non-tower mac pro. Similarly, when the new touchbar macbooks were announced, I ran to the apple store and bought a nice, new max spec 11" air to hold in reserve in my closet.
Now I'm covered on the laptop front for at least five more years and apple has cumulatively lost out on 3-4 laptop and mac pro purchases from me.