Re:The long golden age of our glorified junk
by lisper on Monday September 21, 2020 @02:02PM
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> the alternatives are far worse
Yes, I agree. That's why some day someone will have to pry my mid-2013 MBP from my cold dead hands.
Re:The long golden age of our glorified junk
by sokoloff on Monday September 21, 2020 @10:54PM
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I held onto mine until late last year. The keyboard on the late 2019 model is OK again. It ought not be surprising nor noteworthy that a premium-priced laptop would have a fully functional keyboard, but here we are.
Re:The long golden age of our glorified junk
by msla on Monday September 21, 2020 @06:08PM
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> But the alternatives are far worse
Strongly disagree, and I think this is part of the problem: Apple positioned itself as "The Good UI Company" so strongly that people cannot imagine a good UI which doesn't come from Apple. Therefore, they compare all UIs to what Apple's doing now and take points off for not being Apple, as opposed to evaluating based on usability and fitness for purpose. The ultimate expression of this is people deriding UIs like Window Maker, essentially the NeXT UI, because it isn't Apple, when it's from the same mind as the "Wonderful Apple UIs" everyone seems to love.
You’re right in criticizing Apple on certain things. But the alternatives are far worse, and to use the topic appropriate term here, “crappier”. For all its faults, I still prefer some Apple products and wouldn’t touch the competition even if they paid me to.