Thank you! People here on MacRumors act as if the sky is falling down because we don't have a new MBP yet with a fresh new design, Skylake, Thunderbolt 3, etc. and they think that Apple is flushing their PC business down the toilet. I can understand these sentiments because I am going completely cray cray over the fact that we still have the same old, stale design with 2013 technology (albeit with state of the art 2015 storage tech) and feel that the neglect towards the Mac is inexcusable. But we only represent a very, very small fraction of PC buyers in general. Your average tech consumer, hell, even your above average tech consumer doesn't care or know about these things. They couldn't tell you the difference between Skylake and Lake Titicaca. They couldn't tell you the difference between Sandy Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge. They have no clue what Thunderbolt is, nor do they really care that much because it's not a technology that they are ever going to derive increased utility from. Let's face it...99.9% of people are never going to use it to hook up an eGPU. Very few are going to buy a Thunderbolt docking station or display and marvel over how one cable can carry everything that you might need.
These people don't care. They just want a computer; a good computer that will be easy to use, is a quality product, and access to good customer service for it. Most importantly, they want or need one right now. You can tell them that they can wait two weeks to a couple of months (if we are really unlucky) for a new model, but when you give them the reasons for waiting, I don't think that any of them will resonate very much. A Skylake processor that is only marginally faster and with improved integrated graphics? They won't care. Thunderbolt 3? They won't care either. USB-C? Ditto. Polaris? What does the North Star have to do with a computer? A few millimeters thinner? Nah.
I laugh when people come out and say that the reason why Mac sales were so much lower this last fiscal quarter is because of the fact that they have old tech in them and aren't competitive. No, Apple didn't sell hundreds of thousands of less (or was it over a million?) Mac's because of Broadwell in the 15" or no Skylake or whatever other shortcomings they can think of. They sold less because far fewer people actually need a PC these days, and those that do need one keep it for years and years longer.
Most consumers who are in the market for a PC, even if it's a higher end Mac, will act exactly like the mother and daughter in the Apple Store.
