"Then they should vote with their wallet" would have been grammatically correct.
Are you familiar with the concept ‘figure of speech’?
Why you would address that statement to me is anyone's guess. A: I can't influence them all.
I think the issue at hand is that you continue to extrapolate your own opinions in machine base spec, our own wants and desires, to ‘everyone’. You shouldn’t need to ‘influence them all’. YOU don’t like the specs and the strategy but just like you, everyone else will have to make up their own mind: buy or go elsewhere… simple really.
B: Who is to say they aren't already voting with their wallets?
Apple market share is and will continue to tell us.
I'm aware you were just trying to dismiss my comment out of hand, with the standard 'don't buy it if you don't like it' attitude that people use when trying to shut down a discussion, in defence of their favourite giant corporation.
You are wrong: I couldn’t care less about Apple. Right now, I happen to like their products and to me, their lineup makes sense. If they go under, I will go elsewhere and in fact, I can decide to do so at any time if they would do something I didn’t like.
You have the same option.
What I do not grasp is what you hope to achieve by bemoaning their market strategy: you will not be able to change it and chances are, they have carefully thought it through. Your perceptions are likely not this of the majority of other customers lest Apple would be consciously want to drive off customers.
In all, ‘don’t buy what you don’t like or cannot afford and be happy with that choice’ seems like a healthy attitude
