New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacement design since 2012
A lot of comments seem focused on the incentives to apple and what&#x27;s motivating the change. All fair questions. To me, though, it feels like just a radically different approach this year.<p>2016 macbook felt like leadership got in a room and said &quot;okay, let&#x27;s make a list of all the sexy things we can think of that would make the macbook unique&quot;. This netted things like thin-beyond-practicality, touchbar, removing all the ports, etc.<p>2021 macbook feels like leadership got in a room and said &quot;okay, let&#x27;s make a list of all the top things everybody is complaining about most.&quot; And they just fixed everything (well, most things) on that list one-by-one.