I wonder what their models predicted as marginal revenue of the touchbar and butterfly keyboard mechanisms, and how that compared to their marginal cost.
Well, those are 2 of the 3 reasons I got a surface instead of a new MacBook when my 2013 finally died. Regular USB was the 3rd (and least important)
There are the features a company "tries" to innovate on, vs those they consider uninteresting and just try to find a quality/cost balance.
Maybe, but if I were designing this thing, both as an engineer or executive, it’d be a point of pride to me that the thing we advertise as the best laptop is actually the best laptop.
Especially if I know people are going to ask ‘wtf, why 720p’?
Because the marginal cost of a better camera doesn't yield a sufficient increase in marginal revenue.