How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists
Something that really bothers me about the sentiment expressed in this article is that computer manufacturers are looking to fit people&#x27;s specific use cases. I see it all the time, especially on tech sites, where people want to complain that Apple (or whatever tech company is being questioned) has abandoned them because of X, Y, or Z since they no longer offer some kind of functionality that was useful to a person. People seem to have this idea that Apple needs to continue to offer certain features because they did offer them in the past and people created workflows around those features. In reality, Apple is going to keep the features that people buy their products for.<p>Just look at the number of people in these comments complaining that Apple axed the 17&quot; MBP. While I agree that there may be a use case and a segment of the population that could make use of a 17&quot; laptop, they obviously didn&#x27;t sell enough of them to make it worthwhile. The response to this is usually &quot;well, they just lost me as a customer completely now&quot; as if that&#x27;s supposed to sway Apple into saying &quot;You&#x27;re right! We should keep building and sourcing components for a computer that less and less people are using&quot;. I&#x27;m sure Apple loses some money and some customers from the lack of a 17&quot; laptop, but that obviously doesn&#x27;t outweigh the number of people that are willing to switch to another one of their computers.<p>Vote with your wallets. Look at what the computers can do and buy them if they work for you. If not, go somewhere else and buy a competing product. If enough people do that, companies like Apple will notice. If not enough people do it, then you&#x27;re in a small demographic that it doesn&#x27;t make sense to cater for. Yes, they may lose a long time &quot;loyalist&quot;, but it doesn&#x27;t really make sense for people to be loyal to a specific product. You can be loyal to a company that continues to make products that you find value in, but to base your livelihood and your loyalty on a product seems misguided.