[kevinherron]

One model/configuration will never work because developers are awful, picky customers.

You’ll lose 90,000 of your 100,000 with one or more little nitpicks.

Probably 50% right off the bat because you chose a keyboard with or without a numpad.

Another huge chunk because you chose the wrong screen (Retina resolution? Low resolution? Refresh rate?)

Too bad, because I want this. Or at least the version of it I have in my head :)

[miningape]

Apple / macbooks seem to be doing fine

[chungy]

The blog is premised on the idea that Apple and MacBook are not doing fine.

[tensegrist]

that they're not doing fine software-wise

[naruhodo]

And nobody else is doing better software wise because Apple is secretive about how to program the hardware. Asahi is not sufficient.

[rowanG077]

The reason of course being the awful software, not the hardware options. He makes that abundantly clear in the text.

[miningape]

You missed my point, the original comment is stating that the market for such a device doesn't exist because developers are too finicky and customisation focussed.

As a counter example - look at macbooks which are about as un-customisable as they come, but a large portion of developers use them. Meaning the market exists even if it's currently dominated by Apple (which as you/the post points out is slipping)

[prmoustache]

Not everybody use/choose macbook though.

Having said that I do believe that many brands have way too mamy SKU and I widh they would be more opinionated on what they believe is better for their customers while maintaining clear and strong ethics (reliability should be #priority)

[miningape]

I don't recall saying everybody?

[breve]

Follow the Framework model. Make the hardware user configurable, maintainable, and upgradable.