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kevinherron 8 hours ago

One model/configuration will never work because developers are awful, picky customers.

You’ll lose 90,000 of your 100,000 with one or more little nitpicks.

Probably 50% right off the bat because you chose a keyboard with or without a numpad.

Another huge chunk because you chose the wrong screen (Retina resolution? Low resolution? Refresh rate?)

Too bad, because I want this. Or at least the version of it I have in my head :)

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miningape 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Apple / macbooks seem to be doing fine

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chungy 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The blog is premised on the idea that Apple and MacBook are not doing fine.

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miningape 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You missed my point, the original comment is stating that the market for such a device doesn't exist because developers are too finicky and customisation focussed.

As a counter example - look at macbooks which are about as un-customisable as they come, but a large portion of developers use them. Meaning the market exists even if it's currently dominated by Apple (which as you/the post points out is slipping)

	▲	prmoustache 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Not everybody use/choose macbook though. Having said that I do believe that many brands have way too mamy SKU and I widh they would be more opinionated on what they believe is better for their customers while maintaining clear and strong ethics (reliability should be #priority)

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rowanG077 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The reason of course being the awful software, not the hardware options. He makes that abundantly clear in the text.

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breve 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Follow the Framework model. Make the hardware user configurable, maintainable, and upgradable.