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Comment by brian-armstrong | Hacker News Reader

Replacing hardware keys with a touchscreen on a laptop made for power users is a sign that Apple has lost touch with what made the MacBook Pro popular in the first place. I think they could have just upgraded to the newest CPU and put a new battery in and made everyone happy.

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Get used to using "mac pro'd" as a verb.

"They finally mac pro'd the macbook pros."

I think the thing that is being missed here is that Apple doesn't make much money off of "power users". They make money off people buying movies on itunes and subscribing to icloud for their photos. Everything Apple is building is aimed toward that market, emojis and all.

If you feel that Apple isn't designing with you in mind it's probably because you've outgrown them. Time to look at alternatives.

They still need "power users" to build apps for iOS and macOS.

Apple catered to power users for years with the MBP. That was the entire point of the device and why many programmers said it was the best laptop on the market. I'm not saying it was necessarily a good market decision (though you'll see no shortage of MBPs in the bay area) but that was the strategy. Now that's clearly changing.

You are missing the real statistics. Only 11% of all apple revenues come from services (app store, Icloud, itunes).

apple makes money from selling phones and computers. If you want to sell a $1,799 notebook (or even $2,399 for the 15 inch version), they need to think on power users.

+ NVIDIA GPU

I thought they will align touch bar buttons to 0-9. At least, this way power users had a chance.

you didn't hear that they renamed it to the Macbook Social?

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