How many marketing gimmicks do YOU respond to. I think I remember getting a spam text, once. But I'm not certain it even happened once.

Perhaps I'm weird. I've owned quite a few laptops over the past 15 years and I only once ran into insurmountable issues regarding the battery. And, now that I think about it, it wasn't actually the battery that was the issue because I bought a replacement and it still wouldn't charge, so it was something else in the power chain.

I think many other people are like me in that they have a laptop and use it quite often while plugged in. As my laptops age, I just don't count on being able to use them away from a plug for long periods of time. Outside of the one unsuccessful battery replacement I mentioned above, I've never bought a replacement battery.

I can see how it is nice for people who do use their laptops daily, but if the 1000 charge cycles hold up, that's almost 3 years. If you use a computer that much every day, you might consider a new model every once in a while.

I do think I will miss the ability to add RAM (well, not in this computer since I maxed it out when I bought it, but, the idea of being able to upgrade) but again, assuming anyone else uses their computer in a similar way to me, it isn't a huge deal.

I was pretty disappointed I was going to have to get a glossy screen when I got my Retina MBP... I haven't thought about it more than once or twice since it came in the mail.

speaking of which, the other day someone was watching a youtube video on their phone in a restroom stall... without headphones. Is that a thing now? I hope not.

everything I've ever tried that is in-ear gets slowly (sometimes quickly) pushed out of my ear-canal... I might try these sometime if I get $20 to burn :D

i.e. when I want to listen to something and not annoy everyone around me.

Your claim is false.

How do you explain that?

No they don't

your budget is less than $500?

all your tracks that they have copies of.

c*o's ?

Interesting, you read

'Apple was a pioneer of an accounting technique known as the “Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich,”'

and

"here is a technique typical of what Apple and others pioneered"

and come away with: "Apple literally invented the technique"

It's almost as if people mentioning biased summary writing and biased nytimes articles have a good reason to point out that bias. Heck, the article you linked is linked as the source for the wikipedia article on Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich to mention Apple (with a nod to "was among the pioneers") in the intro paragraph.

"companies like..." before "Apple" and maybe a "...and others" after from time to time in the summary?

This!

sweet, another tax that only effects poor people! Can't wait.