loquitur

Another difference left unmentioned is that Apple lists "stereo speakers" for MacBook Air audio but
"stereo speakers with high dynamic range" for the MacBook Pro.   A teardown might show whether there is a physical difference, but maybe not and there's just a few more decibels boost fed to the Pro one to get over the fan noise.   Oh, that and acoustics of wedge vs. box, whatever that may entail. 

Is that a correct speed test, or just an illustrative picture taken from elsewhere?   If so, both the 13" and 16" MacBook Pro handily
outpace it, which is strange for an otherwise more powerful desktop.   Even Thunderbolt interface external drives are faster.
Further, is there a difference in SSD speeds for the various sizes (256GB to 8TB) available?

What's this fuss all about?  There doesn't need to be an "app" for everything.  The competition is called a "webpage".
An amazing concept, and you can store hundreds or thousands of them on any device, easily searched for or auto-filled.
Noted as an attendee of early Apple developer's conferences, non-OS vendor applications didn't even exist a dozen years ago.
Further, webpages are good for non-profits and for-profits alike -- no antitrust issue here.

cat52 said:

Hoffman is stating the obvious, but all the same major props for bringing some attention to the issue.

Anger is indeed addictive, and the social media companies will ride that all the way to the bank, every time.  And I don't have the sense they particularly care what they leave behind, so long as their stocks move in the right direction.

It's their prerogative I guess, but all the same I wouldn't want them as neighbors.

Without delving into whether the 1st amendment should protect either hate speech or lies,
or whether FB's being a middleman is greedy, I'll just relay something notable (by absence).
Even though Zuckerberg has a big house a few blocks away, no one ever really sees he
or his family around the neighborhood at all, not hopping into local stores, walking in 
the Mission district next door, etc.  So they are not really neighbors at all.  This is likely
the way it is with other big house collectors ranging from Elon Musk to Oprah Winfrey.
They don't hang out with the likes of you or me, so perhaps we shouldn't care if they are "neighbors".
I wish they were more like Mr. Rogers, though!

To Apple non-coder outsiders, layering an OS atop other hardware always seems like
sleight-of-hand, possibly because of Apple's infamous secrecy.  But it's SOP
in the industry.  (I'm long-retired from participating in such at the defunct Sun Microsystems,
which maintained software builds for SPARC, Intel, PowerPC, and even HP's Itanium.)

Some of the transition stuff is motivated by contractual obligations.  
I believe for Motorola/IBM they had a 15-or-20 year exclusive arrangement to use just that architecture.  
Steve Jobs analogized it to a marriage contract.  Maybe they had something similar for
Intel -- I vaguely recall details (partly-redacted) which show up in SEC documents.
So when the exclusivity ends, and either the vendor has fallen behind the competition,
or you are allowed to roll-your-own, it's always wise to have a Plan B lined up
beforehand.   

Aside: yes you can certainly get a divorce mid-stream at a cost.  Tesla did this due to a rift
with Mobileye, and their transition to Nvidia served them until they could vertically integrate better.