What I don't understand is the thinking or the logic of Apple, I am so confused, when Steve Jobs announced that Apple was going to drop Motorola as the chip supplier/tech what what in favour of Intel, the new range would be called Mac this or that Macbook Pro, Macbook Air, iMac, you get the drift...
The first couple of generations of the macbook pro was designed so that you could upgrade, the hard drive, the ram, replace the battery, it was in a word modular... The macbook in plastic, for kids, was not modular, this was what you bought, it stayed in that configuration... That version of the mac did not stay long, was replaced by the air, and this was a great solution, 10/10 for that...
Where Apple went wrong, was to confuse the macbook pro with the macbook air, and come out with 2 devices that are functionally twins, and they should be siblings, same family, but one is way better, has the swap out SSD, RAM, battery, is more designed to be used in situations that demand more power, the air should be the "chromebook" and the pro the mac.. In that yes you buy the 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, and as you find the need, over a couple of years, you replace the 8GB RAM with 16GB or 32GB, the SSD from 128GB to 256, or 2x this or that...
This does 2 things, 1-increased income stream from the upgrade path, and 2nd, it allows potentially, the development of RAM and SSD that may not be done if no one is buying, I am sure that if it was possible to upgrade post purchase, many would...I would, I would have over the last 10 yrs spent a lot at the istore having my mac upgraded, no question, I did this with my first mac, bigger hard drive and more RAM.. I felt so happy doing it, I loved the idea, the pleasure of seeing my "numbers/stats" better than stock...
Post purchase robbed everyone of this, and really there was no reason for the ban on post purchase upgrade, if in the really early days of this century Apple had the ability to design for upgrading, what happened between 2006 and 2013 that Apple lost this knowledge?? Did the planet become less "clever"