I want my ports back.
I want the same ports on the iphone as on the macbook.
No one cares about the damn touch bar. No one cares to have another few tenths of a mm shaved off the thickness.
I want the same ports on the iphone as on the macbook.
No one cares about the damn touch bar. No one cares to have another few tenths of a mm shaved off the thickness.
I do. (To be fair, it's why I use a MacBook Air.)
Apple's R&D department also does. Miniaturization is still a trend. By pushing the envelope on the iPhone they were well positioned for watches.
The technology is there to allow us to have both without too much compromise either way. That's great!
Yes, there are a minority of people who want to fully optimise for one at the expense of the other, but Apple are serving the majority of the market, and the majority of market wants both in one machine, compromises included.
Except it's not there, there are compromises, mainly around durability and repair costs. In my experience modern macs laptops are more fragile than older ones and cost a lot of money to fix when they break. Sometimes they break due to design compromises and even more design compromises up the repair cost through the roof (see complaints about the display cable for an example).
Apple has proven that they will trade repair cost & repair-ability away for anything. Even nothing.
I really do hate the new keyboard to the point where I simply don't do any dev work until I plug in my dongle with my screen/keyboard. It's really that bad. The touch bar has been useless as well and more of an announce sometimes, especially when it would freeze randomly.
My phone came with a USB to USB-C adapter so now I can plug in the mouse as well.
I'm living the one-port-to-rule-them-all dream with my ancient Google phone, and I find it weird that even current-gen iPhones still required a weird proprietary Lightning cable.
Apple's marketing department cares.