Three MacBook mistakes: Will Apple correct course?<article>
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<p>Apple’s not a company that backtracks easily. It’s got a lot of pride and a reputation for moving forward. And yet every so often the company makes a decision that it thinks is right and is ultimately proven to be completely wrong.</p><p>In 2008, Apple <a href="
http://appleinsider.com/articles/08/10/16/jobs_responds_to_outrage_over_macbooks_missing_firewire" rel="nofollow">removed FireWire from the MacBook[/url], only to <a href="
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/specs/macbook-core-2-duo-2.0-white-13-early-2009-nvidia-specs.html#macspecs2" rel="nofollow">put it back in 2009[/url]. In 2009 the iPod Shuffle
went buttonless, only to
revert to its previous buttony design in 2010. The <a href="
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/ipod/specs/ipod_3rdgen.html" rel="nofollow">third-generation iPod[/url], with its row of touch-sensitive controls, was a similar design cul-de-sac. And the most recent example is the Mac Pro, which Apple introduced
to fanfare, but ultimately <a href="
https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/06/transcript-phil-schiller-craig-federighi-and-john-ternus-on-the-state-of-apples-pro-macs/" rel="nofollow">admitted was a mistake[/url].</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3234865/macs/three-macbook-mistakes.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Three MacBook mistakes: Will Apple correct course?
