&gt; The derelict OS<p>What? It has a major release every year. Arguably that&#x27;s too often.<p>&gt; continued lockdown of OS X<p>An indication of long-term investment in OS X. If they wanted to move people to iOS, they wouldn&#x27;t bother.<p>&gt; UI convergence, iPad Pro as a &quot;laptop replacement&quot;<p>There is almost no UI convergence. Do you even use an OS X system? The iPad Pro is only a potential laptop replacement for certain niches; for non-power-users it&#x27;s more of an iPad replacement.<p>&gt;  the OSX Store having an even worse developer experience than the iOS store<p>Has nothing to do with the operating system.<p>&gt; the OSX store letting a cert expire.<p>Has nothing to do with the operating system.<p>&gt; Oh, and the MacBook line is essentially stagnant as a product line. Basically Apple let&#x27;s Intel redo the MacBook guts while its hardware teams are hard at work on improving their own architecture for the iPad Pro, which is very clearly a vision of computing that is more like iOS.<p>Notebooks as a whole are stagnant. Apple manages to make much more money, on essentially the same hardware as everyone else, simply by investing in their brand by spending a little more time on industrial design and the operating system. They would be fools to change anything about that arrangement.