I'm kind of famous for creating apocalyptic precognitions about the IT sector, and usually I'm right, such as when I predicted the collapse of Silv...
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Great article and interesting read. I am using a MacBook pro 2012 model and love it for ease of setup for dev. What setup would you suggest when I need to upgrade
I wish I knew. If you figure it out, let me know ... :/
Read my comment to David to see what I think about your 2012 model ...
Indeed, I would not know what to upgrade to either. There was a time thinkpads were at least solid if plain machines, but those days seem long gone too. The custom built linux laptop houses all seem to use the same shitty suppliers other PC laptops vendor do, and charge a premium to put that together for you.
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So, here's the summary of your article: Apple is a like a crocodile. Since it has negligible senescence it doesn't die from old age. It doesn't have natural predators. However, it eventually dies of hunger because it grows too big for its ability to get fed by the ecosystem.
I couldn't have summed it up better myself
The best laptop I have is actually an old 15.2in Macbook pro with an i7, I guess 2012ish. It was I believe the last one made with an ethernet port (1git) and the first made with usb 3 support. It was also the last before retina displays and maybe the last that also still had a real keyboard. And it was probably the last with a built-in dvd "super drive", too.
Other great things about this laptop is that the drive bay, memory, and battery can all be replaced or upgraded. You could open it with a simple jewelers screw driver. It makes an excellent Linux system, and it was still better made / more useful to me than PC laptops I have seen or used even a decade later, let alone the modern crap Apple has made since. It's kind of like achieving the Apollo program and then forgetting how to even go to the Moon.
Hence, everything about the rise and fall of Apple computers feels like it is in the history of this one machine, which, incidentally, I do continue to use to this day. In a broader perspective, in a consolidated industry, they are also squeezed between Google and Microsoft. And neither feels need to extend artificial life support to avoid anti-trust scrutiny. So in this broad sense I kind of concur with you.
Back in the days, as in 2012, MacBooks were an IT miracle. They were 1,000 years ahead of everything else out there, and so was the iPhone. Today both are shiny objects, with a good marketing campaign, and nothing else going for it.
Every time somebody asked me what computer to buy, I'd say; "Get a MacBook, they simply work. You don't need to do anything to make them work, they never fail, and it's impossible to misunderstand how to use it".
Today they come "pre-broken" from the factory, I can't even set their latest operating system to the battery configuration I want - And if a tiny resistor breaks down, something that costs 50 cents to replace may I add, I have to buy a new hard drive, motherboard, CPU, and RAM - Because everything is soldered together into a single piece of iron to make it impossible to repair ...
The reason? They've modelled their hardware business on the SaaS business model, out of greed, which of course is a joke for a company manufacturing hardware.
I can relate to that, but how long away is that destiny? Maybe you could make a play-money bet on Manifold?