Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop

One model/configuration will never work because developers are awful, picky customers.

You’ll lose 90,000 of your 100,000 with one or more little nitpicks.

Probably 50% right off the bat because you chose a keyboard with or without a numpad.

Another huge chunk because you chose the wrong screen (Retina resolution? Low resolution? Refresh rate?)

Too bad, because I want this. Or at least the version of it I have in my head :)

Apple / macbooks seem to be doing fine

The blog is premised on the idea that Apple and MacBook are not doing fine.

Follow the Framework model. Make the hardware user configurable, maintainable, and upgradable.

The reason of course being the awful software, not the hardware options. He makes that abundantly clear in the text.

You missed my point, the original comment is stating that the market for such a device doesn't exist because developers are too finicky and customisation focussed.

As a counter example - look at macbooks which are about as un-customisable as they come, but a large portion of developers use them. Meaning the market exists even if it's currently dominated by Apple (which as you/the post points out is slipping)

Not everybody use/choose macbook though.

Having said that I do believe that many brands have way too mamy SKU and I widh they would be more opinionated on what they believe is better for their customers while maintaining clear and strong ethics (reliability should be #priority)

that they're not doing fine software-wise

I don't recall saying everybody?

And nobody else is doing better software wise because Apple is secretive about how to program the hardware. Asahi is not sufficient.