Of course it makes sense. Other manufacturers don't release new products until their current line-up is thoroughly obsolete.

The way they achieve that is by releasing stuff that's already obsolete on day of launch, but you can't argue with the ethics!

I've been living in the future with my Surface Pro for a while now.

Apple won't catch up to that until they can lock down the supply chain.

>I've been living in the future with my Surface Pro for a while now.

So Philip K Dick was right after all, the future is a dystopia?

I guess one man's dystopia is another's utopia? Because I'm in the latter ;)

I think Apple has brought us closer to dystopia than anyone with their hardware + software lockin monoculture. At least I can move to other hardware vendors if I don't like Microsoft's hardware. If I want to run OSX I have to buy Apple's hardware (and I do when I have to, but I certainly don't enjoy it).

What do you find so amazing about the Surface Pro btw?

I love the Surface Pro because it comes with a "full" (not locked-down) OS running on very capable 64-bit hardware in a 10" tablet and all of the desktop apps that I use work great with touch input. (The hardware is i5/4GB RAM/128 GB SSD.)

In addition to all the Windows software that I run on it, I also have a small Ubuntu Server VM within the included hypervisor. Can't wait until the Surface Pro 4 comes out, that's when I'll probably jump to the Surface Pro 3 to get the larger screen and SSD size.

probably my reaction was a bit excessive and influenced by my past but what if I had bought it just 15 days ago?

By your logic no company should ever release an updated product because someone, somewhere may have just purchased the old one.