I was laughing when every single one of these changes was presented as "revolutionary" in the keynote. No, you just had to revert everything because your previous revolution was universally hated by users.
It's an Apple product launch. Like every product launch ever in the history of ever, they point out the features of the thing they launch.
But yes, I don't care how they market it. They'd be dumb to pause and say "oh yeah we were stupid, here's your old toys back."
Maybe I'm weird, but my respect for a company that did that would go way up, not down.
Obviously they wouldn't say "we were stupid", but I'd absolutely appreciate an admission along the lines of, "during our design journey over the past X years, we've realized our customers prefer having a full function key row on their keyboard / more ports / MagSafe / etc., so we've listened and are bringing them back!" To me, that signals a group of folks who know they are fallible, listen to customers, and do their best to meet customer needs.
But of course admitting those sorts of things wouldn't be consistent with Apple's brand. Apple is all about "we know better than you know what you want and can do no wrong". Which is fine, and seems to have created a lot of success for them, but it's always turned me off.
I think technically-minded people would take that well, but the business/management types don't like doing stuff like this, likely because it has a chance of making the stock fall (or even just not rise as much as they wanted it to).
"We heard your feedback and we listened."
Exactly none of these changes were presented as "revolutionary", that's just in your head.
I would much rather have more usb-c ports that can do anything and add dongles, than have ports that are functionally limited.
Nah. It was hated by a small but vocal minority of users, of which HN has a lot of.
I posit that "hate" is too strong a word. I would describe the changes as merely unpopular.
Do you have a source for that? Because if that was the case, it would seem silly for them to undo.
I have not met a pro user that wasn't annoyed by not being able to plug in HDMI at some point without a dongle...
I wonder when I'll be able to get one of these new Macs at work ...
>About 90 per cent of computer users don't use CTRL-F to search for a word - as they don't know such a keyboard shortcut exists, a Google survey found.
The results stunned Google's Uber Tech Lead for Search Quality and User Happiness, Dan Russell.
I think we just all assume that we all know it, but no one actually does."
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/only-one-in-10-know-what-c...