Sales does not equal customer satisfaction.
Neither does your comment.
But sales do say something about popular demand. All sales records have been broken and I hear a lot of good stories from people working on these machines. In this age of the internet where people can address their view on a given product you'll always have people complaining. Some with some valid points, but also people with silly points. But even that is in the eye of the beholder.
The question is, success by who's standards?
I would state: my standards. After all, it's the buyer him or herself that will need to work with the device. To keep it simple, a MacBook Pro might not meet your standards but it sure does meet my standards. And I'm a professional in need for a good solid working laptop and that's exactly what the MacBook Pro delivers. If I needed a render farm then I would have bought a PC laptop, but this current MacBook Pro works just fine for photoshop and editing digital photography purposes as well for editing simple 4K movies. I can state this because that's exactly what I'm doing with the device.
All tough I'm aiming for a new MacPro for more heavy tasks, I can't state that this current MacBook Pro is an slow machine, rather the opposite when you see that it's equipped with four thunderbolt 3 and USB-C connecters for transferring files. And the internal storage is extremely fast.
I'm playing a little devil's advocate here because companies always bend numbers to their marketing story. It could simply be there were tons of people and businesses that have held out and this is what they got. Maybe they aren't happy with the purchase but they simply couldn't wait any longer.
That's just speculating. Like I said, amount of sales are more concrete, I find it hard to believe that people "just" spend over $3000,- dollars for an Apple laptop "just" because they couldn't wait any longer. Only die-hard fanboys might do such thing. Most people don't spend just over $3000 just to get their hands on the latest Macbook. Even more, most criticasters in need for an upgrade bought the previous model. But this group is not large. It has more to do with cost then with not willing to spend over $3000 for a MacBook Pro without any "normal" usb connections which will be obsolete pretty soon.
So point being, it could be pent up demand that couldn't wait any longer but aren't necessarily happy with their purchase. I wouldn't say that's success.
Me neither, I would call is pure speculation from your hand.
Now in reality, it's probably somewhere in the middle. I've had a few people I know say they love it all the way to the opposite side of they had to swallow it whether it was a corporate purchase or they are too far into the Apple ecosystem.
It sounds silly to me when people stating that they "swallow" the fact that they have bought a laptop for over more then $3000 just because they where in the Apple ecosystem. Silly because even the previous laptops are up for most tasks done by professionals. It's not that with this new MacBook Pro the previous models suddenly stopped operating. It's also sounds silly because there are plenty of alternatives. IF one REALLY is in need for a massive render laptop then he or she should buy a PC laptop instead since expensive PC laptops comes with better graphic cards to begin with. There is no such thing as an Apple ecosystem within this given context. For example, most professionals that I know, including myself, are working with the Adobe software packages. With the same paid license you can easily download all the needed program's once again on Windows and visa versa for Window switchers coming to an Apple environment. A good friend of mine is professional 3D designer and switched to Windows PC and he was able to change his Apple Maya software into a windows version.
There are just few people really attached to Apple's eco system when working daily on Final Cut Pro for example. But for heavy professional task one can do everything, if not more, on other programs as well. The cost doesn't provide many reasons these days to stay on one system. In short, both OSX and Windows can deliver and for both platforms you have very fine laptops available.
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7th gen and 6th gen CPU or a minor GPU improvement doesn't really matter in real life to 99% of the population.
So true!
