You’re being shortsighted. Apple is the brand that many of us in the tech crowd have long recommended to our non-technical friends and relatives. You could pay

You’re being shortsighted. Apple is the brand that many of us in the tech crowd have long recommended to our non-technical friends and relatives. You could pay a slightly premium price and expect a machine that is easy to understand, “just works” and most importantly: that you would get a fair few years’ worth of use out of for the extra upfront cost. Apple is undermining that by shipping 8GB and 256GB in the base configuration. They’re setting up a situation where the expected life of their computers is potentially shortened by unexpectedly-bloated future OS upgrades. Remember the crappy underspecced Celeron laptops that Walmart used to sell? That unsuspecting non-technical customers would shell out hundreds for, only to become unusable slow in only 1-2 years, meanwhile suffering through it that whole time? We recommended Apple to our friends and relatives precisely to avoid those kind of cheap and nasty predatory products, but now Apple is moving in that direction too. As someone (who is technically skilled) who has recommended Apple tech to my whole family (who are non-technical) with massively positive results after migrating from Windows PCs, yes that does anger me.