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It's clear that Apple turned itself from a computer maker to a consumer device maker - more precisely, their vision is that the computer is an appliance. While this makes sense for a relevant number of users, they should have kept a "pro" line, but they did not. My current laptop was bought in early 2013, but I chose the late 2011 model, because it can be still customised (you can easily open it, change the hard disk, upgrade the memory, replace the optical unit with a second disk). This is what I call "pro" approach, as I often need to tune my stuff. This capability has completely gone away when Retina models have been introduced. My current laptop should live up to early 2017 (*) so at the moment I'm not thinking too loud about what's next. But it's a problem.

 

BTW, there's a commentary of Thom Hogan which sounds more positive:

 

http://www.dslrbodies.com/accessories/so...-dust.html

 

But the point is that, even in the best case, I don't want to go to the cloud, I'm not minimally interested in sharing or editing my photos with a iPhone or iPad (which I don't own), so Apple's direction is clearly different from what I want. My fear is that Adobe could follow them soon.

 

(*) Hopefully. In the last four months it broke twice and costed me 600€ of repair (the second repair was in warranty).