Apple's Mac shipments fall more than 40%, worse than major rivals

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Gimmicky features on macbooks have driven the costs sky high while not producing features consumers want or use.

If they just had:

* m1/m2/m3

* a replaceable ssd

* replaceable ram

They could cut their costs signficantly. Instead, we get cables with chips in them, a monitor tilt position sensor, a useless t2 chip, soldered ram/ssd, etc. They finally got the memo and cut the touch bar, but so much more needs to be done.

They don't want to cut their costs. This is the current business model: never give people what they want all the time, keep them on the upgrade treadmill. Dissatisfaction leads to further sales, ensuring repeat business in lieu of actually meaningful improvements to the user experience. Look at the piss-poor resource consumption of a piece of software like Microsoft Teams, for all the speed and architectural improvements, the software a lot of people use has regressed.

Nothing much has changed for the average desktop or laptop computer other than better battery life in recent years.

Everybody I know is keeping their M1 because it's so good they just don't have any reason to upgrade to M2 or M3. I expect my M1 to last at least another 5 years (as opposed to my previous schedule of new computer every 2-3 years).

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