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Re:Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple ‘is sort of a lone... by technofiend on Sunday August 14, 2016 @05:29PM (#12287434)
Apple has a huge amount of brand loyalty. It's stunning to watch people explain away Apple's failure to refresh their hardware line sooner. They get a lot of latitude from their very loyal customers. Combined with their high margins and practices to protect same (soldered on memory and storage, license restrictions for non-apple hardware, killing their clone market) I'm literally not a buyer. Which is decidedly a minority opinion here on HN.
Re:Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple ‘is sort of a lone... by Neeek on Sunday August 14, 2016 @07:09PM (#12287738)
To be fair, it's becoming pretty common to have RAM and storage soldered to the board these days on small form factor laptops, so it's not just Apple.
Re:Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple ‘is sort of a lone... by digi_owl on Sunday August 14, 2016 @08:22PM (#12287941)
If any other company had done it first on a product range, there would have been a media lynch mob.