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How about not buying any product of Apple at all?

Whether its laptop, desktop, phone, watch or tablet - there are mature "replacement" for Apple and they work many times even better!

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This is such a biased comment. Even people who don’t buy Apple products will admit that so many aspects of their hardware is genuinely premium and not met by other manufacturers. The quality of the trackpad is at the top of the industry, and you’ll find nearly anyone admitting this, whether they use Apple products or not. And I’ve seen plenty of exclusively Linux-using developers have a wow moment when they sit down at a retina screen. To say that everything is greener on the other side it’s just silly. There are pros and cons.

>when they sit down at a retina screen

Please. High DPI screens are old hat. And Apple continues to stubbornly refuse to put touch screens in their computers, because they know what's best for you.

None of what you’re saying changes what I said.

To be fair I'd rather not have a touch screen on my laptop to haphazardly poke and prod at

I agree, I believe this is one area where Apple made the right decision. A computer should either be used like an actual computer, or used as a mobile device. It takes more than just a touchscreen to make it the latter. So it doesn’t make sense to add it arbitrarily. Now adding a keyboard to a mobile device, however, does offer some nice flexibility without compromising on the mobile aspect of it.

Not only that. As an engineer with 28 years of experience, I'm pass "Wow" times. I worked with enough "wow" engineers who had everything top shiny with Apple logo but when it came to fixing something they spent minutes smooth scrolling then clicking and waiting for nicely animated warning popup that fell down from top and bounced back very nicely like a real tennis ball before they had a chance to click call to action. After they were done getting to it, I turned around and told boss "fixed and pushed into production".

The bottom line is that you can definitely deliver cargo of potatoes bags into your fries&cola stand in a shiny new Lamborghini and "wow" everyone around... you can also have a Nissan minvan to do so equally good or better.

Just because Apple makes things that are difficult to impossible to get repaired doesn't mean they are bad.

Apple doesn't aim at the low end of the market. Users can think of this as another part of the cost of the device.

I have a Thinkpad that is 6 years old. I have spilled things on it twice, and fixed it both times myself (both times completely drenched, once with latte, once with mineral water). I would like it to die but it just refuses to give up. If I was MBP user the problem would have been solved for me a long time ago and I would be happy owner of succession of laptops.

Also keep in mind Apple won't have to pay full retail on a replacement item.

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