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The lack of emphasis of good input is absolutely maddening when people were buying macbooks with lousy specs for the price, low-res displays for the price, who
by TheOperator 7y ago
The lack of emphasis of good input is absolutely maddening when people were buying macbooks with lousy specs for the price, low-res displays for the price, who absolutely loved the fantastic trackpad, adequete keyboard, and good build quality.
Now the devices are getting more fragile and the keyboards aren't even average they're junk. The touchbar is shit. Apple seems to be regressing to their form over function puck mouse days.
Meanwhile desktop consumers are realising how undervalued input has been for a long time and are buying $100 keyboards in great quantities.
- therein 7y ago> The touchbar is shit. It really is. Way to go making it impossible to (un)mute and adjust the volume without opening my eyes. And in exchange of what, really? The privilege of losing the physical Esc?
- breatheoften 7y agoNot to mention the touchid sensor is completely terrible. It never - ever - works for me. I never had this level of problem with touchid on the iPhone ... The new iCloud Keychain password prompt, which shows only touchid with password prompt hidden behind a button is fucking terrible — along with the auto submit behavior after filling out the form - which very often results in extra password required popups. I’m starting to wonder if anyone at apple is using this stuff — maybe corporate disabled all these features for security reasons and apple developers actually aren’t allowed to use in practice ...?
- cerberusss 7y agoI use TouchID all the time. I think yours is simply broken, to be honest.
- vlovich123 7y agoI have found the TouchID to be similarly unreliable. It's possible thought it's a mixture of different human factors (iPhone TouchID is easier to touch the same way every time) and more immature hardware.
- finchisko 7y agoNo problem with touchId on my 2018 MBA. Actually it works with wet fingers better then my 6s.
- heelix 7y agoI thought the missing escape would be the thing that drove me nuts since I spend a reasonable chunk of my day in VI. Turns out, it is the damn siri button above the delete. Not quite sure how I keep hitting it.
- Osiris 7y agoSame here. After a few weeks I finally found out how to remove that button. Who wants to speak out loud to their laptop anyway?
- toyg 7y agoI would... if it did anything useful. “Hey Siri, mark a 2h task for Project X in Xero”. But it doesn’t do anything remotely like that, yet. Supposedly the next release will have Shortcuts, which should offer a bit more extensibility.
- lugg 7y agoWho? People that type with two fingers and can't tell the difference between Safari and google. You live in a bubble my friend. I've seen it in the wild and it's a marvel to watch how much they use it.