We've certainly see our fair share of differences, however your both on the money. New MBP is exactly what Steve Jobs would have presented and released, maybe not the Touch Bar the rest I believe would stand. I even remember Steve Jobs openly stating, that as soon as he could remove dGPU's from portable Mac's he would as he saw them as little more than a necessary evil (likely technically & business).
Lets be straight, the new MBP has some issues, as has many of it's predecessors, Apple's approach is different and that has also been the big draw, being frequently the inverse of the PC OEMs. Apple's "locked down, locked in" approach is quintessentially Steve Jobs, with him always vehemently against the users hands in the case so to speak.
On the flip it's infuriating for some of us as the new MBP is now too compromised for our needs. It would be great if Apple did bring a larger more flexible MPB to market, equally I don't see that happening as the user base simply doesn't exist, not is it a growing market for Apple. Professional's will if opportunity allows always pick the best hardware for the job, be it Apple, PC OEM, or Linux.
Apple has changed, and Apple had to change no doubts about that, especially with the runaway success of the iPhone. As to whether we all like that change is another matter. Apple has to answer to it's shareholders and is certainly delivering. I don't personally care for the way Apple presets itself today, however one cannot discount the success of the company under the current management.
The Mac remains to be significant business, equally very far from Apple's priority with IOS devices, services and highly likely upcoming devices being ahead of the line. IMHO Apple's current limited resurgence with the Mac was due to the extremely negative and to some extents protective stance regarding the Mac amongst the tech press. I suspect that Apple's view of personal computing is very different to ours, equally as Apple has found the legacy the Mac is not easily buried quite so soon
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