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They should. The backlash against the new MacBook Pro is unseen in history for Apple. It is totally not worthy of its current price. I am thinking about switch
by eva1984 10y ago
They should. The backlash against the new MacBook Pro is unseen in history for Apple. It is totally not worthy of its current price.
I am thinking about switching to Linux too. I am no iOS developer, and I find their OS upgrade also goes to the same dead end of prioritizing flashy look above usability. After all, why paying a premium only to be ignored and told by believers that my opinion doesn't matter, at all? Time to vote with foot.
- ceejayoz 10y ago> The backlash against the new MacBook Pro is unseen in history for Apple. Guess you missed the iPhone's lack of Flash support and copy/paste?
- ajmurmann 10y agoAs I recall the reaction to removing Flash support was divided at worst. I even recall it as mostly welcomed by developers.
- barrowclift 10y agoAlso the transition to OS X. http://lowendmac.com/2000/os-x-dooms-apple/ http://lowendmac.com/2000/os-x-dooms-apple/
- eva1984 10y agoIn fact I remembered it. But it is hardly a backlash. The users complained at the time, most of them simply didn't have a iPhone. It is more likely people saying, I won't buy a iPhone because of A/B/C. While the new MacBook gets complains from its EXISTING user base, who feel that Apple is taking features that are useful to them away and making the product worse. There is big difference between not giving what your user want and stripping what they are happy with.
- ceejayoz 10y ago> The users complained at the time, most of them simply didn't have a iPhone. As is the case for the Touch Bar.
- snowwrestler 10y agoEven something as small as removing the matte screen option from MacBook Pros was a major shitstorm. Apple is used to getting blowback; it is not unusual, and it is sometimes warranted. When it is, later models address the complaints. I mean, just compare the initial reaction to the very first MacBook Air, to how people feel about that model line now. It is way too early to know how the new MacBook is going to do. It's way too early to know if the Touch Bar is better UI than function keys.
- zzzcpan 10y ago> It's way too early to know if the Touch Bar is better UI than function keys. It's not early, most things in UI design are actually very scientific and can predict in advance how fast you can use something. Basically touch bar is harder if not impossible to use without thinking and looking because it breaks consistency and is also slower to use because targets are smaller, i.e. you have to be more careful not to touch other targets, etc.
- ceejayoz 10y agoThat sounds like the same sort of arguments we heard when the iPhone ditched the physical keyboard. Guess what we don't see on many phones these days?
- zzzcpan 10y agoYou don't use professional software on iphone.
- zimpenfish 10y agoSurely "professional software" is anything that people use in their profession to get paid for? cf the New Yorker covers drawn on iPhones, Gorillaz producing an album (mostly) on an iPad, etc.
- ceejayoz 10y agoI don't? Huh. News to me!
- sbuk 10y ago"The backlash against the new MacBook Pro is unseen in history for Apple." Hyperbole? The had similar backlash when; they switched from 68K processors to PowerPC, licenced Mac OS to third parties, un-licenced Mac OS, Dropped OpenDoc, dropped ADB, dropped 30-pin, dropped the floppy drive, dropped the CD/DVD, dropped the headphone jack. Heck, they even got the same when they switched to Intel! It has been ever thus.