Apple figures, if they tough it out long enough, there won't be any people with Apple laptops that have any keyboard other than the current gosh-awful one which feels like you're drumming your fingers on a sheet of metal. So when they move to a totally fixed, haptic-based "keyboard"... people won't know just what a crappy experience it is!
They'll be hailed as courageous innovators!
Incidentally, Tim Cook insists on reading The Emperor's New Clothes to his nieces and nephews at least once a month. But, in his version, the Emperor is a visionary hero - and the young child who cries out "but he's not wearing anything at all!" gets eaten by wolves.
Keyboard aside - if they'd kept a couple "legacy" ports in addition to adding the new USB-C / Thunderbolt 3 ports, it wouldn't have been quite so maddening. It's not like they don't have room... several other manufacturers have managed to do it on equally-thin machines.
I realize Ethernet is a goner just due to size considerations (and my 2015 MBP doesn't have one anyway) - but they certainly could've included at least one USB-A port, an SD card port, perhaps a Thunderbolt 2 port...
That said, I'm perfectly happy with my "new" (refurb) 2015 MBP.
I'm guessing if people had their way they might like some variations on the shape and color but a brushed aluminum, titanium, or stainless steel shell is durable that looks nice enough that people will buy it.
In all seriousness, I could go for a modern MacBook Pro that looked like the old colorful iBook G3 "Clamshell" laptops.
All the cookie-cutter laptops offered by most vendors, which all look more or less like Apple's MacBook Pro, are sleek... but boring.
As an aside - I just bought a refurb 2015 MacBook Pro, and for me this announcement reinforces that I made the right decision. Right now Apple is doubling down on form over substance - the current-sen keyboards are an abomination.
North of Tacoma's Narrows Bridge lay Gig Harbor (where the blacks live, and msmash doesn't like the blacks) and the Key Peninsula, where streets prepend the direction name with "KP" - i.e. "KPN" for North - to be more clear that they're across Puget Sound from the rest of Pierce County.
Uh... I know quite a few people who live in Gig Harbor, and they are all upper-middle-class whites. I realize there are less affluent areas of Gig Harbor, but the black population is almost certainly higher in Tacoma proper, especially in areas like Hilltop and Salishan.
But with regards to the roads in Tacoma - I agree it's a bizarre layout. They've redone the "theater district" somewhat, but I remember back when the Pantages Theater was still the Rialto (I saw the original Star Wars there on the one-year anniversary of its release) - at the time, it seemed like all the downtown roads were trying to shove people into a couple square blocks in that area.
I love the Old Town area of Tacoma. Used to go there every year to watch the 4th of July fireworks out over the water.
And cities located in hilly/mountainous terrain will have streets following curvature of the hills; the steep streets of San Francisco that completely ignore the slopes and make for such iconic scenes in car chase movies are something rarely seen in the world.
Seattle is just like SF in this regard - downtown roads go straight up and down the side of a steep hill. In Seattle's case, it's due to its history as a logging town... those roads were originally "skid roads", and were used to slide the felled trees down to the harbor.
It makes for a stress-inducing driving experience, especially if you drive a manual transmission. It's not uncommon to be stuck halfway up a hill because of a red light, and many drivers don't think about allowing any roll-back room at all.
I believe Porn has led the way in leveraging technology in one way or another since the beginning f time.
TFS:
After adult content helped popularize new media formats like VHS, Blu-ray and streaming video, the idea that porn drives digital innovation became a widely accepted truth.
Small problem here - the porn industry went all-in on HD-DVD, not Blu-Ray. So let's not oversell the idea.
They're too busy selling more dongles, and enough people keep buying the new ones that they don't care about old customer's wishes for a machine with as many ports as previous and more battery life rather than more sacrifices made to the god of thinness.
I tend to watch the Apple refurb store, since it's really the best place to buy Apple products. I've noticed that whenever refurbished 2015 MacBook Pros become available, they generally get snapped up within a few minutes. The only exception is if one with only a 128GB hard drive shows up - those may "languish" for an hour or two.
I actually just grabbed one with 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD a couple days ago. It should serve me for the next four or five years, at which point I'll have to see if sanity has prevailed or if I'll need to migrate away from the Mac platform.
FWIW there are websites like Refurb Tracker and Reburb.Me which will monitor the Apple Store for you and send you a notice if the hardware configuration you want becomes available. I prefer Refurb Tracker, since it only tracks the Apple Store - Refurb.Me also looks at places like Gazelle.
They’re removing the few remaining ports... BUT introducing the new Apple AirDongle! Wirelessly connect all your wired peripherals to your laptop - at (up to) 802.11ac speeds!
Somebody found the shell shock bug and suggested a fix. Over the next few hours, hundreds of people looked at it. Some saw that the suggested fix wouldn't quite cover this variation or that variation, so they tweaked it. Florian Weimer, from Red Hat, said those tweaks would never cover all the variations, and suggested an entirely different fix, one that went to crux of the problem.
Shellshock. A bug that was shown to have existed since 1989, and was patched in 2014.
I'm not sure this is the best example to use when discussing whether open source security is better than closed source security.
I don't use 1Password, but I do use Apple's iCloud key chain.
I've been using Apple's keychain for as long as they've offered it, which is next to forever. But the unanswered question behind this story is: since Apple already has an encrypted, in-the-cloud password solution - why do they need (or want) 1Password?
It was bad 10 years ago, when pages were “best viewed in Internet Explorer”. The fact that nowadays it’s Google Chrome rather than IE doesn’t make it any less bad.
Code your web pages using web standards, guys. Then, if things are broken in a particular browser - submit a bug report.
He (Jesus) sat down opposite the treasury and observed how the crowd put money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums. A poor widow also came and put in two small coins worth a few cents. Calling his disciples to himself, he said to them, 'Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury. For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood.'[
Sometimes people fail obvious questions. Even about stuff they put on their resume.
This wasn’t a “let’s see if you really have the skills you claim” type of question - and, as I said, the guy wasn’t a developer so he couldn’t have determined that anyway.
Yeah, I just had a phone interview where it became quickly apparent their “development” group was like that. Person who called me had a mid-level title with “developer” in the name, but it was immediately clear he didn’t actually know squat about coding (and he said as much). Then he proceeded to ask me questions which should have been clear from either reading my resume or the responses I’d sent to his follow-up emails - seriously obvious stuff.
When you’ve only got a half-dozen or so people in a development group, there’s really not a good reason that should include two tiers of non-coders.
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People aren't giving Apple enough credit here.
Apple figures, if they tough it out long enough, there won't be any people with Apple laptops that have any keyboard other than the current gosh-awful one which feels like you're drumming your fingers on a sheet of metal. So when they move to a totally fixed, haptic-based "keyboard"... people won't know just what a crappy experience it is!
They'll be hailed as courageous innovators!
Incidentally, Tim Cook insists on reading The Emperor's New Clothes to his nieces and nephews at least once a month. But, in his version, the Emperor is a visionary hero - and the young child who cries out "but he's not wearing anything at all!" gets eaten by wolves.
I wonder why Tim Cook is so crazy about dongles.
There's a joke there which I am fighting not to make...
I bought a 13" 2015 MBP refurb from Apple last week.
Apple doesn't believe people who want to do real work want a desktop which is why they've been relegated to the trash can.
Oh Snap!
Keyboard aside - if they'd kept a couple "legacy" ports in addition to adding the new USB-C / Thunderbolt 3 ports, it wouldn't have been quite so maddening. It's not like they don't have room... several other manufacturers have managed to do it on equally-thin machines.
I realize Ethernet is a goner just due to size considerations (and my 2015 MBP doesn't have one anyway) - but they certainly could've included at least one USB-A port, an SD card port, perhaps a Thunderbolt 2 port...
That said, I'm perfectly happy with my "new" (refurb) 2015 MBP.
The last magsafe-equipped MacBook Pro is the 2015, now on clearance from Apple. Get one while you still can.
If you're quick (it helps to use something like Refurb Tracker), you can also still occasionally grab a 13" MacBook Pro off the Apple refurb store.
I prefer buying refurbished direct from Apple because you can get AppleCare+ - but there are also other options available, such as Gazelle.
If you're buying new, you can sometimes get a better deal from B&H Photo than you get directly from Apple.
I'm guessing if people had their way they might like some variations on the shape and color but a brushed aluminum, titanium, or stainless steel shell is durable that looks nice enough that people will buy it.
In all seriousness, I could go for a modern MacBook Pro that looked like the old colorful iBook G3 "Clamshell" laptops.
All the cookie-cutter laptops offered by most vendors, which all look more or less like Apple's MacBook Pro, are sleek... but boring.
As an aside - I just bought a refurb 2015 MacBook Pro, and for me this announcement reinforces that I made the right decision. Right now Apple is doubling down on form over substance - the current-sen keyboards are an abomination.
North of Tacoma's Narrows Bridge lay Gig Harbor (where the blacks live, and msmash doesn't like the blacks) and the Key Peninsula, where streets prepend the direction name with "KP" - i.e. "KPN" for North - to be more clear that they're across Puget Sound from the rest of Pierce County.
Uh... I know quite a few people who live in Gig Harbor, and they are all upper-middle-class whites. I realize there are less affluent areas of Gig Harbor, but the black population is almost certainly higher in Tacoma proper, especially in areas like Hilltop and Salishan.
But with regards to the roads in Tacoma - I agree it's a bizarre layout. They've redone the "theater district" somewhat, but I remember back when the Pantages Theater was still the Rialto (I saw the original Star Wars there on the one-year anniversary of its release) - at the time, it seemed like all the downtown roads were trying to shove people into a couple square blocks in that area.
I love the Old Town area of Tacoma. Used to go there every year to watch the 4th of July fireworks out over the water.
And cities located in hilly/mountainous terrain will have streets following curvature of the hills; the steep streets of San Francisco that completely ignore the slopes and make for such iconic scenes in car chase movies are something rarely seen in the world.
Seattle is just like SF in this regard - downtown roads go straight up and down the side of a steep hill. In Seattle's case, it's due to its history as a logging town... those roads were originally "skid roads", and were used to slide the felled trees down to the harbor.
It makes for a stress-inducing driving experience, especially if you drive a manual transmission. It's not uncommon to be stuck halfway up a hill because of a red light, and many drivers don't think about allowing any roll-back room at all.
You:
I believe Porn has led the way in leveraging technology in one way or another since the beginning f time.
TFS:
After adult content helped popularize new media formats like VHS, Blu-ray and streaming video, the idea that porn drives digital innovation became a widely accepted truth.
Small problem here - the porn industry went all-in on HD-DVD, not Blu-Ray. So let's not oversell the idea.
Better that than RIP all those future Tata Nano drivers...
They're too busy selling more dongles, and enough people keep buying the new ones that they don't care about old customer's wishes for a machine with as many ports as previous and more battery life rather than more sacrifices made to the god of thinness.
I tend to watch the Apple refurb store, since it's really the best place to buy Apple products. I've noticed that whenever refurbished 2015 MacBook Pros become available, they generally get snapped up within a few minutes. The only exception is if one with only a 128GB hard drive shows up - those may "languish" for an hour or two.
I actually just grabbed one with 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD a couple days ago. It should serve me for the next four or five years, at which point I'll have to see if sanity has prevailed or if I'll need to migrate away from the Mac platform.
FWIW there are websites like Refurb Tracker and Reburb.Me which will monitor the Apple Store for you and send you a notice if the hardware configuration you want becomes available. I prefer Refurb Tracker, since it only tracks the Apple Store - Refurb.Me also looks at places like Gazelle.
They’re removing the few remaining ports... BUT introducing the new Apple AirDongle! Wirelessly connect all your wired peripherals to your laptop - at (up to) 802.11ac speeds!
Starting at $899 for the 802.11g model.
So basically they are putting in newer processors into most of their Mac line but doing little else.
Be quiet, they might hear you!
Given what they did to the MacBook Pro the last time they “improved” the design, I’d rather they stick with processor upgrades.
Somebody found the shell shock bug and suggested a fix. Over the next few hours, hundreds of people looked at it. Some saw that the suggested fix wouldn't quite cover this variation or that variation, so they tweaked it. Florian Weimer, from Red Hat, said those tweaks would never cover all the variations, and suggested an entirely different fix, one that went to crux of the problem.
Shellshock. A bug that was shown to have existed since 1989, and was patched in 2014.
I'm not sure this is the best example to use when discussing whether open source security is better than closed source security.
Can't wealthy people afford to charge their phone?
I spent all my money on the "I Am Rich" app, so now I can't afford a new iPhone.
I don't use 1Password, but I do use Apple's iCloud key chain.
I've been using Apple's keychain for as long as they've offered it, which is next to forever. But the unanswered question behind this story is: since Apple already has an encrypted, in-the-cloud password solution - why do they need (or want) 1Password?
this is why Roe V Wade is so essential,
John Stankey needs to be aborted.
Marty McFly should've made himself more useful back in the 1950s!
We forgive you.
No, no we don’t. What a horrible “sentence”.
It was bad 10 years ago, when pages were “best viewed in Internet Explorer”. The fact that nowadays it’s Google Chrome rather than IE doesn’t make it any less bad.
Code your web pages using web standards, guys. Then, if things are broken in a particular browser - submit a bug report.
These sorts of stories come up fairly regularly here on Slashdot. And, each time they do, it reminds me of the classic XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/927/
This doesn’t just apply to no-name indie developers... the good folks at Google are some of the worst offenders in this regard.
He (Jesus) sat down opposite the treasury and observed how the crowd put money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums. A poor widow also came and put in two small coins worth a few cents. Calling his disciples to himself, he said to them, 'Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury. For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood.'[
While there have been some promising early observations, no one yet has directly observed the hoped-for geysers of juniper.
Sometimes people fail obvious questions. Even about stuff they put on their resume.
This wasn’t a “let’s see if you really have the skills you claim” type of question - and, as I said, the guy wasn’t a developer so he couldn’t have determined that anyway.
Yeah, I just had a phone interview where it became quickly apparent their “development” group was like that. Person who called me had a mid-level title with “developer” in the name, but it was immediately clear he didn’t actually know squat about coding (and he said as much). Then he proceeded to ask me questions which should have been clear from either reading my resume or the responses I’d sent to his follow-up emails - seriously obvious stuff.
When you’ve only got a half-dozen or so people in a development group, there’s really not a good reason that should include two tiers of non-coders.