Microsoft exec criticizes Apple for giving customers old tech - CNET

Oddly, the latest comes from Microsoft's general manager of the Surface line, Brian Hall.

In a tweet on Thursday that sounded in equal parts exasperated and bemused, he said: "I compete with Apple and respect them. but they ARE doing their customers a disservice at times with old tech..."

Apple didn't respond to my request for comment.

I confess to being somewhat in sympathy with Hall. I'm writing this on a MacBook Air that is nice enough, but it's as if it's been around for longer than Donald Trump.

It feels utilitarian rather than exciting, functional rather than stylish.

Perhaps that's a symptom of the expectations that Apple has engendered across its whole product line. Perhaps we humans should just chill a little and let Apple do its thing. Or perhaps Apple is slowly weaning us off certain sorts of computers altogether.

Indeed, Apple did have a (sort of) response to Hall only this week.

It released a new iPad Pro ad in which it claims that its tablet is now actually a computer. It's a miracle.