Considering that Apple doesn't care much about developer's exerience (look at XCode crashes, iOS UI Bugs, shitty UX of itunesconnect portal) I won't engage in any new tool by apple.
As an iOS developer, I've got the experience to know this kind of drivel doesn't reflect reality. More then that though, I simply find it amusing how people here rush to judgment about a product they've never used, then circle the wagons. I guess it's not surprising, developers and entrepreneurs tend to be god-awful at understanding the needs of end users, tale as old as time. What's more concerning is that despite over 40 years of technical revolutions, attention to minor detail wins, and adoption/consideration of community input, industry "professionals" won't give Apple even the slightest hint of the benefit of the doubt.
But I do wonder about the empathy and humanity of people who say that Apple "doesn't care." They has over 125,000 employees worldwide, many of them hardware engineering, open-source software, and design veterans who know and are passionate about the work they do. Passionate enough to know about tradeoffs you make when shipping a successful product. Marginalizing these people simply because you've decided to switch to Desktop Linux reflects really poorly on you, not on the Touch Bar.
Nor does it get anything done, as time and time again Cupertino shows that the haters have less memory than a Nomad and are lame. Meanwhile, scores of developers will use the tbMBP, Xcode, and even iTunes Connect to do tons of productive things with their time. Maybe think of that next time you decide to lower the discourse +1 on every damn article.
Oh come on, HN is one of the most pro-Apple communities around. That still doesn't mean people can't criticise them when they do something they don't like.
k so you're at the center of Apple's attention. You're lucky. You perhaps don't need 32 Gig. Many of us do though, and 16 gig limit is just as nonsensical as it gets on a "Pro" computer and no amount of "oh this is getting old now please stop" is going to change the hard fact that Apple screwed up, or is dumping serious power users. I'm still angry, and I agree with the backlash. I want to toolup away from Apple as well. There is something useful to me in posts that show that I'm not alone, because it suggests a certain momentum towards alternatives, reducing my risk. There is also something very useful to Apple's competitors in gauging frustration as it may push them to create closer alternatives.
No, there really isn't anything useful in statistically insignificant samples, except to further your confirmation bias. Stats 101.
It's not like Apple will never offer a 32GB laptop. At most it's one refresh cycle behind.
Of course, Apple has screwed things up all along: Skeumorphic apps. Lack of repairability of devices. The howling, churning cesspool that is the iTunes UI.
But they do awesome things, usually on their own (with the help of a pile of money), with small teams, and that's pretty admirable.
But then we have the last couple of years, and it seems like stuff is going off the rails. This "server" thing is laughable without hardware to back it up. Office infrastructure (which this claims to be) needs to be run on hardware utterly different from any of Apple's current offerings. Oh, you can probably get away with running it on a spare laptop or mini or whatever, for a while. But anyone making their company financially dependent on this thing will eventually be let down, and hard, and that is going to suck.
Maybe next week Apple will announce a rack-mounted "pro" (or Apple's cool-but-screwy take on real server hardware) and everyone will breathe a sigh of relief that Apple hasn't gone full bull-goose crazy and left the tracks entirely, that there is someone at the helm who knows WTF they are doing. Could happen. Not holding my breath.
I guess Instagram would probably be profitable if it were on its own? Maybe Snapchat is? I don't know how companies like FiftyThree, Flipboard or Foursquare are doing, but you don't hear much about them any more?
This frustration is not sudden, it took time to build up. And I share this opinion with many of my colleagues and many other developers. This is similar to what happened to Windows and Microsoft thing which happened to Microsoft.
iOS development has been getting frustrating and Android is improving A LOT. AppStore search algorithm/flow is now so brutal that its getting very difficult for new developers to get a breakthrough.
The Dell XPS goes to sleep when lid closed, and correctly (and fast) wakeup when you open the lid. Battery life amazing as well. So I just shut the laptop, and open it the next day and continue...
But who knows, maybe I missed a setting somewhere to correct that.
GNOME autodetects a high-DPI display and scales well by default, and all modern applications handle this as well. (If you run old non-toolkit applications, they may not scale automatically.) I did find that Firefox doesn't seem to autodetect high-DPI displays, but if you open about:config and set layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to 1.4 (for 1440p) or 2 (for 4k), Firefox works great. (Adjust to taste.)
It's not crashing all the time but yes I get some vague bugs that are resolved by restarting, clearing some files or simply compiling again. Not to mention Swift 2.3 in the last version of Xcode 7 isn't compiling Swift 2.3 code in Xcode 8.
But it's fast and the code completion works pretty well.
What makes you think this is going to happen sometime soon? Have you seen anything specific that indicates that?