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Re:MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for ... by mullikine on Thursday July 12, 2018 @10:49AM (#17515152)
The touch bar is an ergonomic nightmare.

Apple's soul truly died back in 2011 with the loss of Steve Jobs.

Their computers are now appropriate funeral attire. Lifeless, fragile and gaunt. The operating system, a pale reflection of the past, reminds me of disney movies and EA games these days -- forumlaic, unimaginative, designed to take your money. iTunes sucks the soul right out of you. It's Apple's laboratory and you're the experiment. Welcome to an homogenous, sterile prison of an operating system. You're no longer unique, nor empowered with an Apple computer. When the shallow keyboards make your fingers sore, when you need to replace the $600 display of your 12" macbook because you pinched the screen for the first time, you'll lose your love for Apple. Something like this will happen to you

Re:MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for ... by lloeki on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:12AM (#17515402)
> The touch bar is an ergonomic nightmare. > > Apple's soul truly died back in 2011 with the loss of Steve Jobs.

Hilariously, the TB was in the works way before Job's disappearance (according to a tweet by Bret Victor I can't find right now).

Re:MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for ... by kps on Thursday July 12, 2018 @03:38PM (#17517932)
Long ago, Apple sold keyboards that are regarded as some of the best ever made (up with the IBM M, but quiet).

‘I asked [Jobs] if he would sign my Apple Extended Keyboard. He burst out: “This keyboard represents everything about Apple that I hate. It’s a battleship. Why does it have all these keys? Do you use this F1 key? No.” And with his car keys he pried it right off. “How about this F2 key?” Off they all went. “I’m changing the world, one keyboard at a time,” he concluded in a calmer voice.’ — Steve Jurvetson at https://web.archive.org/web/20111007191749/http://www.busine...

Re:MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for ... by lloeki on Friday July 13, 2018 @09:26AM (#17522729)
The tweet, sent upon reveal of the Touch Bar: https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/791767756928462848
Re:MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for ... by mullikine on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:29AM (#17515551)
Now that is irony.
Re:MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for ... by heartbreak on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:20AM (#17515469)
What exactly is formulaic about Moana and Coco?