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You apparently previously worked for apple, and are on HN.

Therefor, it's probably a safe bet you're a developer of some kind.

What exactly makes you think the thinnest lightest laptop Apple have ever produced, is targeted at you specifically?

Do you also complain that their iMacs and Mac Pros are less portable than a laptop, and that their MacBook Pros have smaller screens than a 27" monitor?

They have a range of products. There are definitely some gaps I would agree with you about (I'm still clinging to a 17" MBP) but faulting an ultra thin/light laptop because it doesn't suit your specific use-case is ridiculous.

I suppose if Apple do release a car, your first comment will be "this is crap it only has four wheels and 5 seats. My cousin's big-rig has 18 wheels and can carry a 40' shipping container!"

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I regularly see MacBooks being issued in corporate and higher education environments where employees are either tasked with buying or were given the extra cables. Again, those cables break too regularly for comfort (power/adapter ~1 break per year). There must be some great deals going on cause I can't see why they keep doing it. If it's cost, well, my 2012 Air works just as good as the day I bought it.

Your metaphor, more accurately: "My company said I would be given a truck for my work. Why are we all driving sedans with attached trailers?"

So now your complaint is, "other people are buying laptops I don't like, I don't understand why"?

You gotta stop putting words in my mouth or I won't reply.

My problem is with <employers> making expensive purchases that are not necessarily better than the cheaper options, and can be more inconvenient as well.

If you aren't the employee why do you care?

You show no interest in discourse. I'm done talking to you.

I don't see why employers making bad purchase decisions signals Apple "calcifying into what Microsoft was".

Just because some employers (and some ordinary people) might purchase it for situations where it's not the best option doesn't make the single-port MacBook "a horrible failure."

More like a Lotus 7 with a bicycle trailer

I expect it's very frustrating to see employees being given an insufficient computer. That's not Apple's fault though. (I mean unless they're misrepresenting things somehow, which I don't think they are.) Apple still has, last I heard, some great Pro machines that support far more wired connectivity options.

If a business buys the one when they need the other, or fails to replace broken cables, then that business is at fault.

Let the record state that my bile is exclusively for the new MacBooks and that the Mac Pro is a beautiful and delightful computer.

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