Ask HN: Anyone want the old Apple deal? A premium dev machine for professionals?
It looks like if I go with a new Macbook Pro for the next decade, I'm signing up to a device that will increasingly get locked down.
The direction of development appears to be iOS in a laptop form factor.
Don't get me wrong, I like having a phone, but I want a general-purpose computer too.
It's a bit sad in a way, I picked up my current machine because the sentiment at the time was that the Macbook Pro was a professional's machine and one of the groups of professional's that it would cater to was developers.
What Apple expected for that was those professionals being willing to pay at a higher price point to get that power. That expectation seems to be bearing out less and less these days.
I still want that deal. Just a little bit of shiny, but all the power that gets out of my way and I pay for it...
So I'm wondering, am I in a minority here? What do others in this ecosystem want? (and yes I'm fully aware that this ecosystem isn't very big)
Are people ok with their main dev machine being a more locked-down system? I see some people jumping into developing on iPad's in the cloud.
So I'm wondering am I the minority of a minority?
Or is there a chance that there are enough people who feel like I do that some company out there can serve our needs and make a decent bank doing it?
Or perhaps I'm mistaken =)...