So let's say i buy a fridge and use it. Does it do its job? Yes, then I'm happy and forget about it. That's the problem with customer satisfaction surveys in general.
They're like such a small piece of the puzzle they might as well not matter. Your appliance, the macbook, does its job.
Ignoring the "expensive hardware of the device".... No. This is basically distracting from the business choice apple made. Raving about the screen when a laptop will start struggling pretty soon is disingenuous. 8GB of RAM is just too little for that price.
lol @ windows craptops. do you live in a corporate office with glass windows? No? then this argument can be thrown in the bin. Next
Selling products has always been moral as long as the manufacturer trusts you and has enough leverage. Apple doesn't satisfy either condition when they sell you a macbook pro for 1700 euros with 8gb of ram.
And the fridge seems to be doing it’s job perfectly fine for lots and lots of people. So claiming this is some kind of scandal or Apple is being “dishonest” somehow makes absolutely no sense… You essentially seem to be upset that there’s a fridge configuration available without an ice-cube maker built-in…. But not everyone cares about that…
“…when it will start struggling soon…”. So do you have a crystal ball you haven’t told us about? My 8GB Mac is running macOS Sonoma just fine, and not anywhere close to struggling. It doesn’t even struggle running Blender. This is just you stating your opinion as fact again. But it’s merely opinion and nothing more…
And again, average customers tend to care more about display quality than they do RAM spec. It doesn’t require gobs of RAM to stream shows and games. A good quality display will make a bigger difference for those things. Again, you can try to pretend that the other hardware doesn’t factor into the cost, but that isn’t reality. And while you seem to think things like sound system quality, battery runtime, and display quality aren’t important, many many average customers would disagree with you.
Do you do professional graphic design and create 3D projects for a living? No? Then this argument can be thrown in the bin. Next. This is actually a logical fallacy, btw, it’s a faulty appeal to authority. Don’t get me wrong, Windows works ok for some, but I consider it crap. That’s my subjective opinion, not a fact.
As long as the manufacturer trusts you? What the heck is that supposed to mean, lol! 😂. The business provides a product or service. You as the customer evaluate whether you would like to buy said service or product from them. If you think the product they provide is worth the asking price and want to purchase it, you purchase it. If you don’t think it’s worth the asking price, you can move on and look at other options. Nobody’s holding customers at gunpoint and forcing them to buy something that’s supposedly a “bad value”. And “bad value” is a fairly subjective thing. Because it depends on the aspects of the product the customer values. If the RAM chip is the only thing the customer values, then they should get a computer with the RAM chip they want. If someone values the display, the ecosystem, the hardware quality, etc., then they will value an option that offers those things. Some people value Windows running as the native OS on their computer. Others like myself value macOS. There’s nothing “immoral” about Apple providing a lower cost option for those who want the nicer display, sound system, more ports, and longer battery runtime, but don’t need gobs of RAM. It’s really very simple. If people like you want more RAM, you can buy one of the many upgrade configuration options that exist, or you can buy a computer from someone else you like better and don’t think is “immoral” and “misleading” people… 🙄
