anantksundaram said:

commentzilla said:

....being handed the longest recovery in US history by Obama.

Ummm.... what? 

Considering that the "longest recovery" happened only as of July 2019, which is more than 2.5 years into the current administration, your post is utter b-s.

flydog said:

wanderso said:

So: no option to ever replace or upgrade the memory or SSD and the battery is glued in place.  Keyboard is still questionable for longevity. 

Extending the useable life of these will not be what Macs were once known for. (Speaking as a Mac owner since 1992). 

If one’s expectation is to replace your laptop every 3-4 years, I guess that is ok, but a distinctive of the Macs of the past was their usable life. 

The fact that you've been using Macs since 1992 doesn't mean you are representative of the user base.  As someone has already pointed out, the percentage of people who open up their Macs is microscopic.  The 99% of users who couldn't care less about upgrading  should not compromise for the sake of upgradability for a few users.  Apple is simply listening to its customers.

Banging away furiously at your keyboard on forums won't change anything. If you don't like, there's always the plastic Windows alternatives from Dell et al. 

maestro64 said:

GeorgeBMac said:

nht said:

GeorgeBMac said:

maestro64 said:

foregoneconclusion said:

SpamSandwich said:

Go get ‘em, Mr. President.

Why? What's to be gained? Tariffs have already proven to be a failure with China.

Please share your data on how its a failure, I think we're yrs away from knowing the real affect.

What we do know, a number of the world's largest manufactures are pulling manufacturing out of China. I think this will translate to less Chinese working. The US manufacturing sectors is grow so this translates to more US citizens working. Yep real failure there. China economy is still highly dependent on US consumers and US manufactures are not going to absorb the add cost and US company are really good at finding low cost solutions to a problem. 

Here is a stat for you of the $300B that is being threaten to be tariff coming out of China Apple represents $167B of the it, if Apple pulls it all out and they will not, this will have a huge impact on China with one company. China can not afford the US fortune 500 or 1000 to move manufacturing to Vietnam, Malaysia, Indian and various other countries, Once they pull out it is not going to be easy to bring them back. The only way that happens China will have to lower its labor costs which has been raising for the last 15 yrs. they are no longer the lowest cost market to make products. 

Evidence?   Here's one of the latest...

Wall Street banks bailing on troubled U.S. farm sector

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-farmers-lending-insight/wall-street-banks-bailing-on-troubled-u-s-farm-sector-idUSKCN1U618F

It's why Trump is now begging China to buy our products.  He knows that if the U.S. agriculture industry collapses from his misguided policies he will lose in 2020 -- and for him that could mean jail time.  Currently, as president, the justice department has declared him to be above the law.

Yes, one sector is hurting.  But how is it obviously a failure for the entire country?  Our largest export sector is service not goods.  The travel and transportation sector was $236B.   Food, beverage and feed was $133B.  Service industries represent 71% of US jobs and $778B in exports.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/07/news/economy/top-us-exports/index.html

LOL...  I didn't say that was the ONLY thing...

We also have the Fed promising to bail Trump out  with a rate cut because his trade war is, according the Powell, introducing risks and instabilities to the economy.

And didn't we recently have 600 CEOs sending him a letter telling him to "Back Off Fool! -

So far, Trump's trade war has only succeeded in disrupting the U.S. economy.   That sounds like a failure to me.

And during the last two prior administration rates were cut all the way to 0% to undo all their fiscal irresponsibility's and stupid ideas 

GeorgeBMac said:

maestro64 said:

foregoneconclusion said:

SpamSandwich said:

Go get ‘em, Mr. President.

Why? What's to be gained? Tariffs have already proven to be a failure with China.

Please share your data on how its a failure, I think we're yrs away from knowing the real affect.

What we do know, a number of the world's largest manufactures are pulling manufacturing out of China. I think this will translate to less Chinese working. The US manufacturing sectors is grow so this translates to more US citizens working. Yep real failure there. China economy is still highly dependent on US consumers and US manufactures are not going to absorb the add cost and US company are really good at finding low cost solutions to a problem. 

Here is a stat for you of the $300B that is being threaten to be tariff coming out of China Apple represents $167B of the it, if Apple pulls it all out and they will not, this will have a huge impact on China with one company. China can not afford the US fortune 500 or 1000 to move manufacturing to Vietnam, Malaysia, Indian and various other countries, Once they pull out it is not going to be easy to bring them back. The only way that happens China will have to lower its labor costs which has been raising for the last 15 yrs. they are no longer the lowest cost market to make products. 

Evidence?   Here's one of the latest...

Wall Street banks bailing on troubled U.S. farm sector

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-farmers-lending-insight/wall-street-banks-bailing-on-troubled-u-s-farm-sector-idUSKCN1U618F

It's why Trump is now begging China to buy our products.  He knows that if the U.S. agriculture industry collapses from his misguided policies he will lose in 2020 -- and for him that could mean jail time.  Currently, as president, the justice department has declared him to be above the law.