Not sure if you’re aware that Apple doesn’t use stock hard drives, they use raw Flash and implement their own controller. Part of the aforementioned vertical op

Not sure if you’re aware that Apple doesn’t use stock hard drives, they use raw Flash and implement their own controller. Part of the aforementioned vertical optimization of performance (and security in this case). Anyway, yes, this argument always comes down to whether enough people want a larger, slower, less reliable, more configurable, more upgradeable device, and it’s hard to know for sure without trying the expensive experiment. At least we got some ports back!