tl;dr We don't know yet.

Innovation during the Space Race was driven by the competition between USSR and USA.

I've seen a few complains that could be classified as customer feedback. They all came from people that actually bought the product but disliked one or two things.

Comments like: "Apple is doomed", "Touchbar is useless/gimmick", "Nobody wanted a thinner MacBook" are not costumer feedback.

If you think their products are fancy crap, would it make a difference if they suddenly decided to sell them for half the price?

Yes, because price and quality matters. I have luxury leather goods and they worth every penny because awesome quality and the rest of goods just junk.

Does not work with Mac, you pay a lot and a chance that you will be in a trouble with it is very high. Like with last MBP. Apple must spend more money for QA and offer better hardware. I will look on their new mac mini if it will be updated this or next year, probably it will be my last device from this company.

Apple business is one of the greatest bubbles.

Agreed. It is apples to oranges but the article does an excellent job showing when/why to use each one. I believe the conclusion was spot on and IMO combining the stability of Elixir/BEAM with the performance of Go is the best of both worlds.

The only issue I have with it is the alignment.

I really hope that better "Unix with good UI" laptops will exist in the future. Right now, I'd rather buy a 2015 MBP than any of those "Dev Edition" machines.

Over a decade of crawling on its belly at the bottom end of the market has really taken a toll on PC hardware and the whole PC ecosystem. The bundling of actual malware with PCs marks what I think is the low point. Dell's XPS machines are starting to climb out of that hole, but it'll take some resolve.

Yeah, people seem to be calling the 2016 models tbMBP and ntbMBP.

It's the MacBook Escape and the Macbook Pro.

I'm really thinking about returning mine. I just don't know what I would get instead since the competition is either crap or crazy expensive.

I think it's likely their product will reduce in price for fire sale, like the HP Touchpad.

At least with HP Touchpad you could flash the ROM and change the OS.

It is a difficult sell to have someone pay full price for a product when the manufacturer openly states they won't support it anymore, and may even reduce functionality in the future.

You can keep yours till the end of the return period and see if the price drops. Or maybe pebble will change their own, or open source their software (but now you paid full price for a product with no hardware support). Depending on where you bought, some stores have extended returns for the holidays.

If it can run a Turing machine simulator, then it's a real computer.