Unfortunately, I agree with this. Mac hardware is stagnating. Since the wild success of the iPhone, Mac hardware has been left to languish, with stupid, customer-hostile design decisions and lack of interest in supporting pro/non-consumption users.

The problem is that Windows 10 is utterly unusable and Linux also has no clue how to support mixed DPI and high-DPI setups, as well as its numerous other nearly-intractable problems.

So I am stuck on MacOS, despite Apple having effectively abandoned Macs.

I just wish Windows weren’t so fucking terrible now. It was never great, but it was at least ok. But with lack of proper support for mixed DPI, etc., it’s a functionally useless OS that only Facebook droolers can get any real use from.

Strange, though, that Apple is leaving billions and billions of dollars on the table by not focusing on pro users who would pay a huge premium for real, upgradeable, high-end hardware in a more standard form factor.

Hell, if they offered me a (still locked in to Apple) monster 16-core computer in a standard ATX style case with upgradeable memory, CPU, etc., that could drive a few 5K and 4K monitors, I’d gladly shell out $5000+ for that any day of the week. So would loads of other people out there.

I’d guess by back of the envelope calculations that Apple is foregoing about $20 billion of revenue a quarter and $5 billion in profit.

That’s a whole lot of money to leave on the table. Must be nice when you can afford that.