Apple Neglects MacBook Pro Success To Build A Stronger Future

[DP]

The MacBook Pro may have found success straight out of the starting blocks, but it’s unlikely to change Apple’s focus. Cupertino’s future does not feel like it is focused on the classic laptop form and macOS, but on sealed Pro tablets running iOS.

Yes, there is a pent-up demand for a new MacBook Pro, but it’s noticeable that the internal hardware design of the MacBook Pro, last year’s MacBook, and the venerable MacBook Air owe more to the fixed-specifications single-board sealed designs of the iPad than the user-accessible modular approach taken by older designs such as the superstar MD101LL/A non-retina MacBook Pro from 2012. These are no longer computers designed to be updated and maintained by a user, but as machines designed to be disposable and require replacement within two or three years.

This has been discussed here a few times already but this article just scares me! I will need a laptop as it's a backup machine for my work; an iPad is not an alternative. It drives home the fact that I may actually be forced to buy a Windows machine in the future. Yes, I could load Ubuntu but I don't believe Adobe makes Photoshop for that which I need for my business.
I just recently bought an early 2013 MBPr and I hope I can keep it going for a long, long time...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2...ab68fa84a3

[bazookaman]

DP wrote:
These are no longer computers designed to be updated and maintained by a user, but as machines designed to be disposable and require replacement within two or three years.

Hey. That's all fine and good. But they need to move the decimal point if that's their plan. $4000 every 2 to 3 years for a new computer???

[testcase]

bazookaman wrote:
[quote=DP]
These are no longer computers designed to be updated and maintained by a user, but as machines designed to be disposable and require replacement within two or three years.

Hey. That's all fine and good. But they need to move the decimal point if that's their plan. $4000 every 2 to 3 years for a new computer???


YES

[GuyGene]

:agree: :agree: :agree:

If Apple goes away from the Mac, I'm done with them.

[Speedy]

GuyGene wrote:
:agree: :agree: :agree:

If Apple goes away from the Mac, I'm done with them.

That ship has sailed.

[GuyGene]

Speedy wrote:
[quote=GuyGene]
:agree: :agree: :agree:

If Apple goes away from the Mac, I'm done with them.

That ship has sailed.
And I'm, "...sittin' on the dock of my Mac... I'm leaving my home at Apple, headed for the Dark Side. Thirty years I've been in. Not wanting to commit a sin. Now Apple's done gone and done it. Kicked the Mac out to the bin. Yeah, liking the Dock of my Mac, I'll never be in again." Hep me, hep me, hep me... :banghead: What will I do? What will I do?

[mrlynn]

From that article:

Last year at the launch of the iPad Pro, Tim Cook asked “Why would you buy a PC any more?”

In the old days, we would have assumed he was referring to Macs versus Windows 'PCs', but in this context he means tablets versus (Macintosh) laptops.

This is just confirming what so many here have complained of.

You have to wonder whether Steve Jobs would have decided to slowly abandon the Mac. Because that's what Apple is doing.

Someone once said "What a revoltin' development!" Seems apropos now.

/Mr Lynn

[sekker]

When Jobs was no longer at Apple, he said Apple should milk the most out of the Mac and move onto the next thing.

But for some of us, we still want great computers.

I think it'll come to me deciding to have a crappy (hardware) Mac or a Windows machine with good hardware and, well, Windows.

[jdc]

slow news day?

[Article Accelerator]

bazookaman wrote:
[quote=DP]
These are no longer computers designed to be updated and maintained by a user, but as machines designed to be disposable and require replacement within two or three years.

Hey. That's all fine and good. But they need to move the decimal point if that's their plan. $4000 every 2 to 3 years for a new computer???
Yeah, because that Forbes guy has an inside line to both Apple and its customers. Therefore, "every two or three years."

Has your WTF? brain circuit gone bad, DP?