[johansch]

Yeah, this choice has been bothering me insanely the last year. I am still on a 5s simply because I can't choose the right model/time. ;(

Still, in my mind, the largest betrayal of Steve's legacy is the way the affordable and awesome Macbook Air design was left to rot. It was such a liberating and democratic thing that the best laptop money could buy cost less than a thousand USD.

The low price also afforded you to not treat them as super expensive objects (which was also liberating) - I actually managed to physically kill two or three of them over the years, until I moved to a 13" MBP this spring. Which I now have to protect like a jewel, which I hate doing. I want my work station to be a tank, not a fashion piece.

All because Apple without Steve couldn't/wouldn't take risks and be innovative (in pricing) in order to expand in the laptop market. Safer for the margins to avoid expanding the user base and instead just milk the already converted suckers.

[johansch]

(Interesting, after meeting the wave of slower readers, all of my comments in this thread were massively downvoted except this one, I guess since I was initially agreeing with someone on HN who is "famous".)

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