Comment by geophile

tl;dr: Apple no longer builds computers.

After 11 years of MBPs as my main computer, I left because of crappy hardware (keyboards, missing Esc and Fn keys). I'm now very happy on a System76 laptop running PopOS.

With each new release of the OS, getting more and more locked down, I am happier that I moved on when I did.

The long term trend with Apple is for their computers to get more and more closed. First hardware, and now software. I get that for a phone, but it is completely antithetical to what a COMPUTER is supposed to be. They really should stop calling these things computers.

Huh.

After typing the above, I decided to check. THEY DO NOT call Macs "computers". I searched the pages for MBPs, iMacs, and Mac Pros. They use the word "computer" in connection with trade-ins, (for the thing you are trading in), and they use the phrase "computer system" in fine print, and never to refer to their products directly.

APPLE, IN THEIR OWN WORDS, NO LONGER BUILDS COMPUTERS. That explains so much.