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I'll never understand this. The pattern is the same every year. They announce a product, "journalists" say it's a failure, they sell more units and make more mo
by dpkonofa 9y ago
I'll never understand this. The pattern is the same every year. They announce a product, "journalists" say it's a failure, they sell more units and make more money than ever before, and the cycle repeats. Apple will definitely drop the ball someday but I think people are a little too quick to make that call. I realize most of that is in the never-ending quest for clickbait but still...
- D-Coder 9y agoOh absolutely (and not just journalists, but all the Apple-haters). Every year since at least 1984, "Apple hasn't come out with a new product in _weeks_! They're doooomed!" Every single year. For at least 30 years. "Dooooooomed!"
- clarky07 9y agoIn their defense, it was very nearly doomed for 10-15 of those years :-P But I agree, anyone who has said this since 2007 clearly isn't paying attention. Almost all the people with iPhones are going to keep buying a new iPhone every 2 years for a long long time.
- mangotv 9y agoKondo?
- pjmlp 9y agoIf NeXT had not bought Apple, because that was what actually happened, Apple would be gone by now.
- smallhands 9y agoit is the other way round apple~next
- 1inuxoid 9y agoI guess he means NeXT == Jobs
- pjmlp 9y agoNot at all. Apple did buy out NeXT, but then Steve Jobs and his team took ownership over Apple key positions from inside. A situation that happens quite often where the bought company, manages to own the buyer. So on the paperwork and bank transactions, Apple bought NeXT, on management level, NeXT bought Apple.
- on_and_off 9y agoWell, I do think that Touchbar is an absolutely awful gimmicky product. The design is baffling : you lose tactile feedback on the function keys and even the nice additions have had zero thoughts put into them (for example the lock key sounds like a good idea but in practice is extremely annoying since I hit up accidentaly 2/3 of the time .. it would have been easy to make it a slide to activate button). The thing is : unlike what the pro monicker suggests, I am not at all the target of this product. So while it is objectively worse in all the criterias that matter to me, it does not matter to apple sales.
- dpkonofa 9y agoWhat's the lock key? That seems like something you need to either explicitly turn on or press.
- pls2halp 9y agoI’m not sure what gp was talking about. The TouchID sensor also doubles as a physical power button(or a sleep if pressed briefly). It is a physical button too, not like the iPhone ⅞ buttons.
- dpkonofa 9y agoYeah... I'm aware of that which is what made OP confusing. They're either talking about the Power/TouchID button (which is still physical as it has been on every other MacBook prior) or they purposely added a "Lock" button to the TouchBar and are complaining about something they added that isn't there by default.
- on_and_off 9y ago>complaining about something they added that isn't there by default it is part of the OS, not a third party app. So I think that complaining that it is badly designed is fair. I can complain about the default configuration too if you want. It takes away the function keys I actually need and replaces them with a screen. The lack of tactile feedback is really annoying. Even after configuring the touchbar to display the function keys by default in my IDE, it still bugs me and make me 'mistype' more than ever on this strip.
- hashmal 9y agob-but someday, the doom-sayers will be right! SOMEDAY!