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To be fair, their hardware standards have held up much better over the years than their software standards. Most recent hardware problems have been design choic
by _bxg1 7y ago
To be fair, their hardware standards have held up much better over the years than their software standards. Most recent hardware problems have been design choices, like the keyboards and ports shenanigans. The execution is still rock-solid.
In software, on the other hand, the latest macOS update introduced a bug in Notes where now if I hit the Tab key (entering an actual tab character), that whole line of text becomes invisible. Just invisible. I can highlight the text and see that it's still there, but without highlighting, it's invisible. It's very reproducible, this is not an obscure corner case. And this is at a time when Apple is attempting to ramp up its online services like Notes.
- chipotle_coyote 7y agoHmm. I'd written that I couldn't reproduce this, but I think I am not on the most recent Catalina build! I will have to try again later.
- _bxg1 7y agoOkay, I just experimented a little further (I didn't bother the first time, just switched to a different text editor), and it's slightly narrower than I thought: 1) Enable dark mode 2) Open a new note 3) Tab twice, then type text which will be invisible It appears to be any line with two or more tabs of indentation. Not two or more relative to the previous line, but two or more period.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoWhere are you drawing the line between “design” and “execution”? I would consider building keyboards that fail after a year or so to be bad execution.
- _bxg1 7y agoThey didn't fail after a year or so, they failed when dust particles got in there because it was physically impossible to make that design not do that. They reworked it and reworked it but it just couldn't be done. Finally they admitted it was a mistake to require that level of thinness from a design standpoint.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoI actually don't think the problems were due to dust, ever since I read this a year ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/bjtyaw/macbook_pro_keyboard_failures_why_apples_dust/ https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/bjtyaw/macbook_pro_k... But putting that aside, I still see that as an execution flaw, or at least, it's a way in which design and execution are so intertwined that the distinction no longer makes sense. A computer with a non-replacable keyboard that breaks after a year is a badly-executed product. The way to execute it better would be a keyboard that doesn't break, whatever design decisions that entails.
- _bxg1 7y agoThe way I see it is those doing the executing were handed an impossible constraint. Immediately upon having that constraint loosened, the keyboards became pretty much perfect.
- eganist 7y ago> Finally they admitted it was a mistake to require that level of thinness from a design standpoint. So what you're saying is it was a design flaw from a design company.