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This was a really smart article. It seems to me that a lot of the exaggerated angst around HN about this announcement (visible nearby) is due to the fact that
by mturmon 10y ago
This was a really smart article.
It seems to me that a lot of the exaggerated angst around HN about this announcement (visible nearby) is due to the fact that the professed desires of high-capacity hardware users (diverse ports, lots of RAM, expansion) have been ignored by Apple's new product.
Some of this is real (i.e., SW developers are not Apple's main audience for this machine). But much of it is people who have never used the product extrapolating what they feel they need, and finding the machine wanting. People appear to be forgetting that Apple clearly does a lot of research into what is possible, and usage patterns with new hardware.
- twblalock 10y ago> SW developers are not Apple's main audience for this machine I'm not too sure about that. Almost every startup software developer I know uses a company-issued Macbook Pro. I'm not sure what it's like in some of the older, larger companies, but that's definitely the case at most startups.
- mturmon 10y agoI just mean Apple is not prioritizing devs with their hardware. They are aiming at a larger target that happens to include devs.
- jinushaun 10y agoI think it's a cop out to say that these complaints are exclusively "nerd issues" or power users issues. I hear the same complaints echoed by non techie people year-after-year, but the only difference is that they don't complain about it on the internet. It's easy to claim sampling bias when you're reading about it on HN.