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I'm an Apple fan (having converted with the 2010 Macbook Air and the iPhone 4) and I am really frustrated by Apple's products these days: - I honestly don't th
by cletus 10y ago
I'm an Apple fan (having converted with the 2010 Macbook Air and the iPhone 4) and I am really frustrated by Apple's products these days:
- I honestly don't think the Watch is anything more than a niche product because there's really no compelling use case for it. Having another device to charge just to have a notification screen seems like a lot to pay $500+ for;
- Force Touch is (IMHO) a disaster. Steve Jobs' Apple steadfastly refused to have more than one button on the Mac mouse. I think this is a rare case where Jobs was proven wrong as the right click is just too useful. But Force Touch adds weight to the phone and cost and doesn't have a compelling use. What's worse is that there is zero discoverability.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the iPhone 7 drops this feature after the 5SE didn't have it and that would be quite an admission of failure.
- I'm constantly frustrated by Apple's apparent distaste for the Macbook Air line. When the 12" Macbook came out I thought this was the end of the line for the Air and that makes me sad as, to me, the Macbook is too much of a compromise (horrible keyboard, no feedback on the trackpad, too low power CPU, only one port which is also for power). The Macbook proved they could release an Air with a retina display if they wanted to. They clearly don't want to.
I honestly don't get Apple's hate for the Macbook Air.
- Steve Jobs famously called touch displays on laptops terrible from an ergonomic point of view. I agreed then and nothing has changed my mind. Every time I try one of these devices (eg iPad Pro with a keyboard), I wonder why anyone would want to lift their hand from the keyboard to touch something on the screen. The 13" iPad Pro has other things going for it but I just don't see an iPad as ever being a replacement for a laptop for most people. And I say this who has owned 5 iPads (including the latest 9.7" iPad Pro).
- I kept my iPhone 5 for 3 years because I hated the larger phones. I finally relented and bought the 6S under protest. Apple finally relented and released the 5SE, which I take as correcting a mistake. Some people may want larger phones. It's fine to have those. But many people don't. I expect the 5SE form factor to be a big seller for Apple.
Tim Cook seems to be a great logistics man and I think was largely responsible for building the supply chain that could build 200M+ devices a year. This includes innovations in how Apple used their cash hoard as vendor finance to get exclusive supply for awhile and cut their costs in the long term.
But Cook just isn't the visionary that Jobs was (who is?) and Apple's much vaunted simplicity does seem to have at least partially fallen by the wayside.
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- ourcat 10y agoI just think employees aren't as scared of Tim as they were of Steve. And all the "omerta" has gone.
- HemanHeartYou 10y agoWas Jobs an asshole, still, after he came back?
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- LionessLover 10y ago> Steve Jobs famously called touch displays on laptops terrible from an ergonomic point of view. I agreed then and nothing has changed my mind. Speak for yourself. You can only take my touchscreen ultrabook out of my cold dead hands. I've loved touch screens since the Psion 5 (http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/why-the-psion-series-5-belongs-in-the-gadget-hall-of-fame http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/why-the-psion-series-...) - I need both a keyboard and touch screen. I just point to where I want to go on the screen - and scroll and click. Moving the hand out to an external mouse or down to the touchpad is soooo last millennium.
- Yhippa 10y agoI don't like Force Touch on my MacBook Pro. I loved being able to lightly tap on the touchpad instead of having to click. I don't get why this was worth having more levels of gradation in fast-forwarding through videos.
- glhaynes 10y agoJust in case you weren't aware: you can turn off Force Touch and turn on "Tap to click" in System Preferences > Trackpad.
- calibration263 10y ago