>> Why they couldn't grab a 2012-2015 model and upgrade the guts? No touchbar, smaller touchpad than the newer macbooks, but updated specs? Call it Macbook Dev

>> Why they couldn't grab a 2012-2015 model and upgrade the guts? No touchbar, smaller touchpad than the newer macbooks, but updated specs? Call it Macbook Developer... We build the software for the "Pros" after all. > They didn't do that because it is not what most people want. What's your basis for saying that, besides the assumption that Apple can't be wrong, so whatever it's doing must be what people actually want? Apple has a habit of designing from an ivory tower and not admitting to its mistakes. I would say it's arguable that their design priorities are currently out of whack: chasing thinness when you're going from 1.5in to 0.75in is one thing, it's quite another when you're going from 18mm to 15mm. It may not be a fatal mistake for them, but it's evidence that they may longer deserve the design deference they've traditionally gotten. > Apple has to make changes that will sell more laptops to the masses to maximize shareholder value. Many of those changes could be characterized as pointless sidegrades: merely change for change's sake.