Looking forward to the price going down and perhaps a good refurbished deal.
The only use case I can think of for this machine is testing iOS touch interactions without a physical phone. Just this one specific purpose and it's not one that would require prolonged use.
Most won’t use it. Steve Jobs was right, everyone is frisky at the beginning of the day and may use it a few times, but as the day goes on you’ll quickly get tired of it, particularly at the angle a standard laptop monitor sits at, and making a laptop with the screen sitting flat is utterly ridiculous.
It's not just cultists - millions of MacBook users want the lightest, longest lasting, best looking MacBook Pro they can get. For most of those people, this is that laptop, and touch is secondary.
If Apple had released this exact machine without touch it would still sell just as well.
The only use case I can think of for this machine is testing iOS touch interactions without a physical phone. Just this one specific purpose and it's not one that would require prolonged use.
If Apple had released this exact machine without touch it would still sell just as well.