Seriously? Have you read any of these threads about various issues? For every person who posts about an issue, the fanboys come out of the woodwork in droves to inform the poster that they don't have the issue and never have had the issue and how everyone one they have ever known and ever will know has never had a problem now or in the future. People posting that they have had no problems aren't rare on MR, they are the majority.
Edit: Especially when you get the posters who will happilly tell you that they have never in their life had a problem with an Apple product, but more importantly they work at a company that has hundreds of them and not a single one of them has ever experienced a single issue in the last 5 years. Not a single one. Fascinating. It is the poor slobs that can only afford to own one at a time that have all the problems
I don't disagree that the air has always been overpriced, but now they are making the mistake of putting it in the same price range as the MacBook Pro and that is going to invite direct comparisons as a result. It reminds me of BMW Motorcycles. They always had the BMW F700/750 which was an entry into BMW Motorcycles. Expensive compared to the Japanese brands, but a low price entry to BMW. Now if BMW decided to price the F700/750 at exactly the same price as the 800/850 and both of those only a thousand or so less than the 1200GS, they begin to have a problem. People would then start to compare the specs of the 700 series directly to the 800 series since the price is within $100 and also hey, why not throw the 1200GS into the mix for a $1000 more. Now what was a nice entry point model, begins to look like money poorly spent.
Apple would have done well to keep the Air under a grand and it would probably be a top seller for them. If it is still a top seller at the $1300 price point, it would be beyond me why.
I am not a Surface fanboy either, I only one the one among all manner of Apple products, but I am also not blind to the fact that Apple has some very real and serious issues. I also believe they are suppressing as are many of the forum posters. I don't buy the "overblown claims" or Apples "small number" vagueness.
I used to buy that when I had the display issue with the 2013 13" and they told me a "small number" experience that issue and then it happened again. I sold it before I could find out if it happened a 3rd time. They tell you a small amount experience keyboard issues as they add year after year, model after model to the repair program. People post that they have had issues with 2, 3, 4, or more in a row. It's anecdotal, but really what are the odds of getting that many in a row with failures if the number is as low as Apple claims and the problem is as overblown as some forum posters would have us believe.
I meant overall, for example if someone posts about an issue on this forum, how many people out there in the general population are also experiencing the same issue? We just don’t know is my point. I’m talking in general not a specific issue, we know for example that there are issues with the MacBook Pro keyboards because Apple issued a program, so it’s safe to say there were a BIG number of failures.
What I was saying was that for every person on this forum who posts of an issue there are people out there who don’t visit these sites and are perfectly happy never experiencing an issue, you have to take that into account otherwise it can look worse than what it is, hence why I said something’s can be overblown, the media don’t help and netither do certain Youtubers.
