This isn't anything surprising. A handful of companies out there have been working hard for the past few years to kill the personal computer and turn it back into a dumb terminal that connects to a mainframe owned by them, and they've managed to do it. Nomenclature also matters - they've stopped calling them "computers", now they're just "devices".
Enjoy your $1500 dumb terminal. If you're still buying Apple products, then you're simply unforgivable.
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