Well....
People have pent up demand and this is evident by the 2015's flying off the shelves as well.. The Apple online store can't keep the refurbished 2015 units in stock. Why? People waited and waited and waited for the 2016 release. They put off upgrades and buying new machines until the announcement. Once that happened plenty of people decided the 2015 was the way to go.. Yes the 2016's are selling and I don't think anyone rationally expected them to be a flop...
They are not selling all that great though. I can walk into my local Apple Store right now and pick up any 13" 2016 model whereas the online store says 2-3 week wait for the TB...
There are plenty of 2016 models in stock and ready for immediate pickup. If they were selling like hotcakes, the stores would be sold out as well...
I like the 2016 well enough and think it's a fine computer BUT the sales numbers can easily be skewed in either direction.. I think they are selling well but not as well as some want others to believe..
As always you have good points, but I don't come to the same conclusions. I'm only speaking to the numbers here. Pent up demand for sure. I am one of those who is "pent up". Good sales of 2015 rMBP also indicate that the price is too high for them or tradeoffs not worth it for that group. But the thing is we don't know what the supply situation is for either the new/refurb 2015's or the new 2016's is. All we know is that the 2016's are selling better than Apple or "experts"
expected. I don't think anything else can be gleaned from the inventory/sales situation.
I come back to what the numbers actually say. This MBP has outsold every other computer in 2016 by a large margin in one week. Sales could fall off a cliff, but that's speculation. Vast majority of owners are satisfied. Not just from the MR polls, but from reputable Mac sites (maybe it was 9to5?). Again, speculation if those are fanboys only on these sites or just regular people. Only facts are there are a lot of MBP's sold.
Now for speculation, I think these sales won't fall off a cliff as the idea of usb-c only is more socialized and more 3rd party options (and prices) become available and as more PC's go all in. There's a group of people waiting for the dust to settle on software and/or hardware issues on this Rev A. That's another group who are also well represented here in MR. There was a great article somewhere on here about the unexpected flexibility of usb-c. They mentioned things I didn't event think of and I'm one of the '16 fan/owners. Statistics, psychology, and history lead me to speculate that this is just the beginning. Personally, I don't care if this computer sells great, as long as it is profitable enough for Apple to continue to make these for ME. If others want to buy it, cool, because it keeps Apple in the laptop game. And keeps them pushing the industry forward. If others don't want to buy it, that's also cool, as I don't want PC manufacturers to go out of business to keep competition healthy for Apple.
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My only complaint is the Touch ID button is wobbly
I agree. But the more I tested and thought about it, wobbly is relative to the solid, no-play keyboard. I feel it looking for wobble and it is tighter than any other computer's keyboard keys. It IS the sloppiest key on the computer, but that's not saying much.
