New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacement design since 2012

Re:New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacem... by compiler-guy on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:44PM (#29018170)

If the analog add ons are DIY or even extra money, then software developers cannot rely on them being present and won't develop good software and use cases for it. At least not most of them. The best you can hope for is niche software support.

So adding stuff yourself is nice (I do it myself!) but not a way to move the industry or even the Apple ecosystem forward.

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Re:New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacem... by pdpi on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @04:07PM (#29018450)

Analogue input is pretty much a solved problem. Not only do we have standards for game controllers, but also MIDI control surfaces give you a wide variety of analogue physical controls. MIDI even comes with incredibly rich input automation.

Sadly, the only company I'm aware of producing that sort of hardware for use outside the music industry seems to be Loupedeck.

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Re:New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacem... by compiler-guy on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @07:38PM (#29020485)

And yet a developer still can’t assume that the customer will have such analog input tools available.

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Re:New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacem... by Oddskar on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:58PM (#29018340)

Niche software support? My keyboard and the analog addons works on Mac, Windows and Linux with excellent support since it runs QMK firmware.

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Re:New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacem... by compiler-guy on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @04:35PM (#29018755)

How well does this analog input work with, say, Photoshop?

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