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It's symbolic of the change happening at Apple.  As Apple trades places with Microsoft, Apple has less and less interest in customers who care about this sort of thing.

Not that Apple Insider was ever journalism, but this obsequious adherence to promoting Apple's image is insidious.  This site has gone from an interesting and sometimes intelligent forum for a group with common tech interests, to a place pervaded by its dogmatic fixation with depicting Apple as god-like perfection.  It's a sad little bubble of militant fanbois for whom even the most oblique criticism of Apple is denounced as trolling, or dismissed as (at best) irrelevant and (at worst) conspiratorial.  The Apple users I grew up with shudder at the Orwellian purification of thought demanded by present-day Apple users.  You've taken "think different" and made it "think nice about Apple."  Fake news items like this are an embarrassment, and a symptom of groupthink and intellectual bankruptcy.

Pearl... did note that they released the product too late to make it to stores in time for the holiday. 

This sounds familiar.

Siri is awful.  It's amazing how slowly this tech has developed.  I really hope these guys have some promising developments, so we can look back on Siri the way we look back on Pong.  But sooner rather than later.

It's like giving a kid a $1000/week allowance and docking them a nickel for not unloading the dishwasher.  No message was sent or received.

That's probably why Apple suddenly remembered they make laptops too.  Without a big phone release and with the iPad hitting the saturation point, something is going to have to create growth.

It's slightly disappointing that there may not be big tech improvements to the iPhone for a while, but we're also at a point where current designs will only get incrementally better so I'm not surprised we're still a year or more away from anything revolutionary.

An obnoxious maneuver, born of undiluted hubris and a mercenary neglect of the graphics and media professionals who no longer rank high enough on Apple's sales charts to influence the products.  This has been brewing for years, with the most obvious affront being a Mac Pro that hasn't seen an update since its launch in 2013.  Building a rich kids' toy like the MacBook Pro - decent power under the hood but clearly designed to give the middle finger to people in complex graphics environments - is offensive but hardly surprising.

Most professionals are at a difficult crossroads.  Apple still has the superior OS to Windows 10 and unless Microsoft does something unheard of in its own history, this won't change.  But limping along with jury rigged hardware that is clearly designed for web browsing, but that costs in most cases 2x what Windows laptops cost is not sustainable either.

There's a vacuum developing in the pro market and it will be interesting to see who fills in over the next couple years.

Take-home message - a slick device saddled with a romper room OS.

Spot on review - I've tried many times to manage the shortcomings of iOS, only to be frustrated at every turn.  Anything over and above the most elementary tasks are clumsy at best if not impossible.  When iOS gets a grown ups' version, I'll leave my MacBook Pro at home.  Until then, it's just for fun.

The device is estimated to ship in February of 2017.

So in about four months there will be an inelegant quasi-solution to jury rig an inadequate computer?  After the theatrical headline I thought something had already happened.

Anyone can buy a shill.  This isn't journalism, it's just a dressed up retweet from some guy who likes his free demo laptop.  When these things are in regular use, then we'll see legitimate reviews.