> My hope is that Apple is secretly listening. I'd love to believe this -- I have 5 Apple laptops from the Pismo G3 through a mid-2012, and liked all of them -

> My hope is that Apple is secretly listening. I'd love to believe this -- I have 5 Apple laptops from the Pismo G3 through a mid-2012, and liked all of them -- and I'd love to go back to being satisfied with that kind of purchase cycle again. But I don't think Apple got it right before by listening in the sense of gathering feedback, I think they had some internal vision that came from a kind of attention to people like you and I as a market that they cared about. And I think either the people who had a knack for that vision are gone, or the days when Apple could be bothered to care about that market are gone.