The problem I have with apple lately is the over-saturation of their products.
If you were to come in the store for a Macbook Pro, your options are:
13': With or without touchbar
15': Would you like the 2015 model which we still sell, or would you like the newest model without the touchbar or with the touchbar?
For the Macbooks:
We have the Macbook available in 3 different colors, but we also have another portable Macbook Air that is a couple generations old.
Then there's the iPads....
It's as if they have no direction. Many would argue this is because Steve is gone and Tim doesn't have the same passion or drive to steer the ship the way Steve did.
I agree with Q6's eloquent point. Apple was/ is closed-minded to two-in-ones because they just couldn't figure out how to pull it off, or because they wanted people to buy multiple devices. But Microsoft, of all companies figured it out. Because the surface runs a full OS, it can also be a laptop. With a docking station, it functions like a desktop. That is an excellent value as you don't have to buy multiple devices, with different apps all the while juggling between these devices.
This is my problem with Apple's line-up right now. MacBook Pros don't have the value they once had. I'm not referring to the two-in-one issue here. My gripe lies in the fact because you have to buy all this extra equipment (docking station, adapters, external drives) just to get it the same functionality your old MacBook Pro had and then charging an extra money for less functionality.
The aluminum Mac Pros were really expensive, but there were a dream machine with excellent value. They had all the ports, and you could add gobs of memory and hard drive space and PCI-e slots. Now all that stuff is soldered in with no expansion.
I've gained a lot of respect for Microsoft in recent years, and that surprises me. What has happened to Apple is saddening. In a way I knew it was coming after Steve left and that my 2012 cMBP would be my last mac of a long line of Apple purchases.
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