Ah! But there we go. Storage space. I said 70%, because practically every non-techy I talk to use less than 128gigs. With that in mind, SSDs make more sense, do you not agree? Perhaps the people I surround myself with (other than the techies) just use way less space than average, but now you know the basis of my claim.
I definitely understand where you are coming from, I tend to download my media and keep it on my computer whereas many of my friends often question my reasons. "You can just stream it", they say. "Why would you want to have it on your computer if it's all the same". In short, I agree that many of them don't use more than 100GBs, leaving their hard drives mostly open.
The thing is that's not really my point. My point is that they don't need it, do any of you remember needing "retina" quality screens before they came out? Sure they looked amazing, still do, but it didn't alter the functionality of the device. Most people won't even recognize the speed difference aside from booting the computer up. Simply put, they see an added cost for something they don't even think they need, and on top of all of that, it seems to have much less space!
I would like to add that going through these forums I have encountered a lot of posts about Macs using HDD that completely undermine the user experience. I have two things to say about these people; they are either lying, or they have defective hardware. Even many of the forum regulars quickly and sharply reply "get an SSD" as soon as "my computers slow" is mentioned, when it often has nothing to do with the storage. I won't name any users but you guys are kind of wack... Dozens upon dozens of posts just telling users that they should get an SSD because YOU are right and THEY are wrong. That's not how this works, people have different needs and expectations. Some of yours are obviously unrealistically high. Sometimes you guys talk about SSDs as if they're the second coming of Christ; how you can't live without them and "any computer sold in 2015 should have an SSD, no questions". Yes, questions please!