I find myself increasingly disenchanted with Apple's products. The removal of the iPhone7 headphone jack was an absolute disaster from my perspective. The new

I find myself increasingly disenchanted with Apple's products. The removal of the iPhone7 headphone jack was an absolute disaster from my perspective. The new MBPs with their 16GB memory limit, their removal of the esc key, and their useless touch bar, all have me looking enviously to other hardware platforms. Recently, I tried to burn a DVD on my iMac running Sierra using the built-in Disk Utility. Apparently, Apple ripped out the DVD burning feature in that app because they're moving away from having an optical drive in all their newer products. Please don't compare the elimination of the optical drive to the elimination of the floppy on the original iMac. The floppy had one use, and Apple was boldly showing us we could do without it. DVDs, CDs, and Blu-Ray have other uses beyond just software and application data. They're still all over our consumer electronics and need to be supported as first-class citizens on a computer that attempts to be so media friendly otherwise. To me, this is starting to feel like Apple felt in the early 1990's when their leadership appeared to be lost. I'm not optimistic that they're going to start making the sequence of good decisions that they'd need to in order to regain my personal trust in their products.