skinmechanic

It takes apple nearly 4 years to update the Mac Book Pro, the specs are largely the same, they've abandoned thunderbolt displays after people invest loads of money with them, they abandon their wifi products that people invested in. The problem apple have always sold at a premium and they always take a gamble when they decide that to stay "Different" to anything else out there releasing technology for the sake of it that isn't adopted because of the high price and those that do find themselves left in Limbo. The touchbar is a bit of a gimmick, it's nothing they couldn't have done with the touchpad. 4 years of innovation and again more price hikes to get a touch bar isn't enough to keep people loyal to the mac anymore. For me their very long development cycle for their own software products which really is the only reason people are with the mac isn't helping and I don;t care what anyone says Tim Cook doesn't really want to keep MacOS forever, he would easily think no-one needs to use a traditional computer anymore and the iPad Pro and beyond with iOS is the future for him.

I am an iMac user for one reason alone and that was because of Logic Pro, however a lot of other DAW's have caught up, become more stable and overtook Logic, meaning needing a mac less important. The game changer will be when Microsoft start shipping the surface studio, the way it's designed and touchscreen capability it's how the iMac should have been, but I believe MacOS can't be touch enabled without another full rewrite of the code of their OS leaving a lot of their applications non compatible they might be forced to do that when they see even more creative and pro users migrate away to the Windows 10 platform as Microsoft target those people even more early next year.

We will see what Apple do in 2017 but they really need to shift focus to their MacOS platform as someone else has said split it into a separate entity and allow them to develop and concentrate on improving the platform before it becomes obsolete.