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The reason for exclusion of Apple products might have something to do with how the Apple Affiliate program ( https://www.apple.com/shop/performance-partners ) functions. Wirecutter doesn't seem to list products without strong affiliate programs. See previous related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31541669

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Are you expecting John Gruber to be rational and impartial talking about Apple? He's being the biggest shill the Internet has ever known, for a decade. This "journalist" is a clown.

>Wirecutter doesn't seem to list products without strong affiliate programs.

Which are from retailers not manufacturers...

What's the issue there?

Sometimes Apple products are not available from third-parties at launch. IIRC, iPads were not on Amazon for quite a while.

Sometimes they are not even available from Apple at launch.

I found it pretty ridiculous that at Apple's most recent event they announced a product (the M2) that not only wasn't available for purchase, but that couldn't even be pre-ordered.

This is perhaps ridiculous but not at all uncommon. iPhones are never available for order at the events where they are announced. Sometimes computers are, but not ones in high demand. A slight delay makes sense for fairness (everyone knows when they’ll be available for order and can try simultaneously), but this is the first time I can remember them saying “next month” as the time when they’d be available and ready for preorder.

This hasn’t been true in years.

The Apple.com e-commerce website allows much more configuration and customization options, ie: offering more colors and memory / disk size configurations, engraving, etc. The experience on the apple website is really excellent.

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