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You are not giving Apple enough credit here. Removing buttons, ports and features is hard and requires courage. The fewer bits there are remaining, the harder t

by dman 9y ago

You are not giving Apple enough credit here. Removing buttons, ports and features is hard and requires courage. The fewer bits there are remaining, the harder the challenge to take something out. This is what made the IphoneX a moonshot, same with the touchbar on the macbook pro. Walk a mile in their shoes - Take a long hard look at the current apple lineup - identify a key feature for each product and then imagine how much work it would be to get rid of it. Then the extra work on top to build a dongle to add back the missing functionality.

czardoz 9y ago
How does this relate to the parent comment at all? Taking risks doesn't mean that the management at Apple is not atrophying. In fact, it might be a signal that it is indeed atrophying, which explains these "bold" gambles.
- dman 9y ago
  I was trying to use sarcasm to vent my frustration at the death cult of simplicity and minimalism that seems to have taken root at Apple. The bicycle for the mind is missing its wheels and chain by now. Wheels were removed in a release to reduce weight, chain was removed in another release because it was determined that users could hurt themselves with it.
bshacklett 9y ago
There's a difference between bravery and just plain poor design. Removing the escape key from laptops which were popularized by developers is firmly in the latter category. As for them resting on their laurels, the fact that Mac OS is still shipping with Python 2.6 is somewhat telling.
- pfranz 9y ago
  Huh? I'm running 10.13.2 $ python -V Python 2.7.10 https://docs.python.org/3/using/mac.html https://docs.python.org/3/using/mac.html This page says 10.8 ships with 2.7, too. I'm also not sure why that matters or how it would show they're resting on their laurels?
  - bshacklett 9y ago
    I stand corrected. I was going by the behavior of my coworkers laptop running a recent release os Mac OS. Perhaps it was a remnant of an older third party installation.

by dman 9y ago

czardoz 9y ago

How does this relate to the parent comment at all? Taking risks doesn't mean that the management at Apple is not atrophying. In fact, it might be a signal that it is indeed atrophying, which explains these "bold" gambles.

dman 9y ago
I was trying to use sarcasm to vent my frustration at the death cult of simplicity and minimalism that seems to have taken root at Apple. The bicycle for the mind is missing its wheels and chain by now. Wheels were removed in a release to reduce weight, chain was removed in another release because it was determined that users could hurt themselves with it.

bshacklett 9y ago

There's a difference between bravery and just plain poor design. Removing the escape key from laptops which were popularized by developers is firmly in the latter category. As for them resting on their laurels, the fact that Mac OS is still shipping with Python 2.6 is somewhat telling.

pfranz 9y ago
Huh? I'm running 10.13.2 $ python -V Python 2.7.10 https://docs.python.org/3/using/mac.html https://docs.python.org/3/using/mac.html This page says 10.8 ships with 2.7, too. I'm also not sure why that matters or how it would show they're resting on their laurels?
- bshacklett 9y ago
  I stand corrected. I was going by the behavior of my coworkers laptop running a recent release os Mac OS. Perhaps it was a remnant of an older third party installation.