8 ms·
And they got rid of the touch bar which everyone dumped heavily on
by rstupek 5y ago
And they got rid of the touch bar which everyone dumped heavily on
- yellow_postit 5y agoIf you listen closely you can hear the IT procurement IOs being opened up en masse.
- awill 5y agoI love how they boasted about bringing back the regular keyboard. Even though they're solving a problem them created.
- rstupek 5y agoDamned if they do, damned if they don't? Sounds to me like they listened and changed course.
- thuccess129 5y agoStill have not solved the tinytiny inverted Tee arrow keys arrangement. Need to improve on the former IBM's 6-key cluster below the right shift key, or arrange full keysized arrows in a cross pattern breaking out of the rectangle at the lower right corner.
- airstrike 5y agoI think the parent comment is taking issue with how they frame it, not with the actual decision
- pb7 5y agoWhat are they supposed to say? "We're sorry we tried something new and it didn't work out?"
- markdog12 5y agoYes?
- airstrike 5y ago"We listened to you and brought back the functions keys–and made them full size!" That's just my half-assed stab at it. Presumably someone whose job is to write these things for a living can improve it meaningfully while maintaining the essence.
- pb7 5y agoThey said pretty much this minus the "we listened to you" part. I don't know why you need a pat on the back. Are you going to send them a thank you card for every thing they do right? It's a company dude, Apple is not your buddy. They're not listening to you, they're listening to market research and usage analytics.
- kelnos 5y agoYes, but instead of acting like bringing back the regular keyboard is an amazing achievement, they could instead just admit that the touch bar wasn't a good idea. But admitting errors is not the Apple Way.
- RandallBrown 5y agoThey were "boasting" about making the function keys taller.
- reaperducer 5y agoWhich makes sense because some of the earlier MacBook keyboards with physical keys, like the one I'm using right now, had half-height keys.
- sxg 5y agoHow are they supposed to frame it? “Sorry we messed up the keyboard. We’re putting a regular one back in.” Doesn’t seem like great phrasing for launching a new product.
- Grustaf 5y agoThey didn't boast. Saying many people prefer hardware keys is closer to admitting a mistake than boasting.
- throwoutway 5y agoLooks like they only “got rid” of the Touch Bar for the more expensive model. Really trolling their customers now
- 1270018080 5y agoNo they didn't? The 14 and 16 inch don't have the touchbar.
- out_of_protocol 5y agoExactly. No touch bar and cost more money
- cassianoleal 5y agoThe Air doesn't have a touch bar and costs less money. It's also a perfectly good -- no, sorry: an excellent laptop for most applications, including development. I suspect the 13" M1 Pro was probably just something to cater for those who were skeptical about a fanless laptop since no one really knew back then how well these machines would perform. Now that the M1s have been out for a while and no one seems to be complaining about the Air, they can drop the M1 Pro.
- Toutouxc 5y agoWell, the 13" Pro already has the M1 chip and will probably be gradually replaced by the 14", so there's no reason to update it. Where's the trolling?