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>Translucent UI is usually a bad idea outside of movies and non-critical game interfaces. We're taking about Apple here, who prioritize aesthetics over everyth
by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>Translucent UI is usually a bad idea outside of movies and non-critical game interfaces.
We're taking about Apple here, who prioritize aesthetics over everything else, shipping a defective keyboard design for 5 years straight just to shave 1 millimeter of thickness on the laptop.
It needs to 'wow' people in the Apple Store in terms of looks and feel, usability be dammed.
- oxygen_crisis 1y agoI thought the touch bar was even worse than the butterfly keys... I put off upgrading my personal MacBook for years after work issued me a MacBook with the touch bar. Such a usability nightmare for the sake of eye candy. That was a long seven years.
- bigyabai 1y agoHey, at least Apple hedged their bet on the future needing emoji keyboards.
- encom 1y agoYou'd rather go 7 years without upgrading, than buy a computer without an apple on it?
- oxygen_crisis 1y agoThere was a Lenovo and an ASUS and an Acer in between but those all went in the graveyard pile before their second year was up and I had to keep resorting to the 2011 Macbook. And that's counting the extra ~year I got out of the Lenovo after having to replace the fans. Having user serviceable parts is nice but having parts that last 14 years is better. If there was a brand that did both, that's what I'd buy.
- FirmwareBurner 1y agoI can't concur. Growing up poor, I've only owned the cheapest Acers and HPs and none of them ever died on me. They're still at my parents place chugging along. Later I switched to Lenovo when I got money and still no issues. Meanwhile all my mates with 2016-2018 era Macbooks have had endless issues, that they swore off ever buying Apple. Anecdotal stories can swing in both directions, that's not proof of anything.