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I really loved the design of the Touch Bar/Butterfly keyboard visually. It would have been great if: - They kept the butterfly but completely solved the failu
by can16358p 4y ago
I really loved the design of the Touch Bar/Butterfly keyboard visually.
It would have been great if:
- They kept the butterfly but completely solved the failure problem.
- Supported Touch Bar with actual haptic feedback that could really be used "professionally" as in a Pro device. It could at best become a gimmick, but if played right, had great potential.
- Had a simplified thin chassis with less ports. I really don't wanna pay for an HDMI port, SD reader, and a headphone jack that I'll never use in my entire life. I still believe after all the years, unification of everything to a single port (USB-C) was right. The industry should have forward to, say, support HDMI over USB-C on ubiqutiously, and really should have adopted a single card type: now we practically have 3: SD, microSD, and CF. My camera has a CF card, my drone has a microSD, and ironically regular SD is the only one that don't use so I still carry a dongle anyway (microSD adapter in this sense can be considered a passive dongle). Instead of the headphone jack it could stream raw audio over USB-C and offload DAC to the connected device. I also get that without a single standard, Apple also couldn't make everyone happy at the same time, but if there was a single standard port, or even a wireless standard that provided Gigabit speeds in around less than a meter, that would have been a great device with much less ports.
Of course, this is not reality, and I of course also get why Apple added all those back, and I love my M1 MacBook Pro regardless. I just wanted to share a vision.
- lupire 4y ago> loved the design of the [product] visually [but it was a functional failure] Is Ive's trademark.
- grishka 4y agoWay too many of today's UIs are like that, too. Especially desktop ones. And it's not just Apple, it's endemic in the entire industry.
- chrisseaton 4y agoI used the old Touch Bar in my profession daily - used it for debugging command shortcuts.
- can16358p 4y agoI used it too especially in Vscode to move forward/back in views of code locations when debugging/coding. That was the first thing I missed, along with the custom controls for DND/Focus which was one tap away on Touch Bar. Though it was a lot of hit or miss to use Touch Bar while looking at the screen, as there wasn't a physical feedback of pressing, and no indication of button bounds by touching. The first thing I did when I got on M1 without Touch Bar was to open up Karabiner and map right Cmd and right Option keys to navigating back and forward in Vscode. After getting used to it in a few days, it was much smoother than using the Touch Bar as I was using a physical key.
- kayodelycaon 4y agoI miss the typing suggestions. Used them all the time because my spelling is terrible. I know you can hit F5 for suggestions but it isn’t the same.
- rubatuga 4y ago> I really don't wanna pay for an HDMI port, SD reader, and a headphone jack tha You don't want to pay for $20 worth of components? Like what another comment stated, you're getting components that have been tested by Apple and will have documented specifications.
- can16358p 4y agoForgot to add: also about aesthetics. I'm a minimalist guy who loved simplicity (hence loved Ive'd designs). Less ports and possible slightly thinner chassis as a result of it is something I'd have preferred even if there was no price difference.