Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen 'significantly'

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Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen 'significantly'
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Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen 'significantly'::A top Apple analyst said Wednesday that shipments for MacBook computers will decline around 30% year over year.

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I use Linux for home and Mac for work. My Mac is older Intel based with software bar for F keys. If in the past 10 years ago I was into Mac and owned one… I no longer see the reason for Mac.

Hardware choices are not a selling point

Context bar makes it harder to use for programming. It is not a sell for me.

Mouse pad frequently jumps cursor.

Keyboard feedback is cheap.

Software is not impressive either

Usability wise Gnome is better than OS X for me. No ctrl key on right side is terrible.

Due to Windows subsystem for Linux v2 I am starting to think Windows is better for Linux development than Mac.

MAC M1, M2 laptops have good battery life going for them.

The keyboard's on macs have always been crap. They're even crap on desktop, they've taken their awful, but I suppose understandable, laptop keyboard and stuck it on a desktop keyboard base. Why?

Why are Apple allergic to the concept of keys having three dimensions to them, why are they all flat with zero travel.

They've been a form over function company since the iMac days with the round mouse with a single button completed with PC mice thatwere commonly two button with scroll wheel and in a shape that fit the hand and let you know which way it was oriented.

Apple was known for the one-button mouse in 1983, 15 years before the iMac

Yeah but the iMac was when they introduced the completely symmetrical mouse that you couldn't tell which was it was pointing without looking for where the cord was. The previous one-button mice were just lacking functionality but looked as bad as most mice did in those days. The round one-button mice looked nicer but functioned worse, hence form over function.

That said, I should have probably added an "at least" to my original statement.

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