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Images of New MacBook Pro With Magic Toolbar Leaked in macOS Sierra 10.12.1
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I'm not... i'm writing this from an iPad Pro. I'm just seeing patterns in apples 'progress' recently where they are reducing functionality and features continually in order to be able to upsell more bs. Soon it will be TouchID is compulsory (no physical button) as they will try funnel more people into using Apple Pay. You won't be able to buy apps on App Store without Apple Pay etc. Removing the headphone from iphone is proof that this is the direction they've chosen. I switched to Apple initially because they had solid stuff that was gimmick free and it just worked. They've lost sight of this and UX is taking a back seat to profit. Tell me I'm wrong (I hope I am) but if we're honest this future is probable.
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Just download the latest duet for iPad Pro
Just checked out that new surface book...pretty bad ass.
The MacBook pro, looks the same as it did before...I wonder whats going to wow us, the images look pretty bland.
The MacBook pro, looks the same as it did before...I wonder whats going to wow us, the images look pretty bland.
You keep saying this, but you've so far completely ignored my point about handicapped users with no hands or viable fingerprints. Please explain how Apple will force those users to use Touch ID.
Please tell me how removing the iPhone's headphone jack is proof that they're going to force all of their users to use Apple Pay, or how they can even do that to begin with. I haven't heard about plastic cards being phased out. Nevermind the fact that credit card merchant agreements explicitly prohibit what you're claiming Apple is trying to do.
You've been talking out of your ass since your very first post in this thread.
The last time Apple had a 'courageous' product was the Mac Pro. And that was in 2013. And before that was in 2007 with the iPhone. So I'm not really not joking.
i don't think they're trying to force apple pay on people.. it seems they're trying to make it simple and secure enough so that people choose to use it.
regarding the headphone jack removal on iPhone.. i don't think that's hinting at apple moving towards forcing apple pay on people.. i personally think it's hinting at a future iPhone with no ports.. wireless charging wireless connections.. idk, our logics are on completely different paths.. that's all.
And if you don't use it, you absolutely should. I've did a lot with PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) at my last job. I did that work for 7+ years, and I can tell you that a more secure way of using credit cards than tokenized payments such as Apple Pay does not exist.
TBH, you can take my HMDI, my SD-card slot and hell even fake my escape key but the deal breaker for me is the MagSafe (also known as thatbloodycatsafe). The number of times that's saved my laptop from getting toppled and smashed is unreal. USB-C just doesn't do that? I can see the advantages of ubiquitous charging, but MagSafe to me is one of the defining innovations that apple brought to laptops.
I think a lot of people miss the point that touch typists are more accurate when there are raised physical keys. And yes, for some pro users, the F-keys and ESC keys are important, as raised keys, because we type them without looking.
A lot of talk is made about ESC, but let's look at places the F-keys are important too:
- Photoshop
- Eclipse
- Terminal programs
- Mission Control
- Xcode
- Running Windows in a VM
Ive never had to use F keys in Photoshop...? They aint that important to the software lol.
Been using butterfly keyboard for 18 months. Got used to it in no time. 12" MacBook has been sold. MacBook Pro 13/15. Haven't decided yet.
Aye that's definitely true, I reach for function keys without looking, but I'm definitely subconsciously feeling for the raised edge of the key when I do it. If Apple makes the strip able to change shape or had made real keys able to change their label that would have been truly impressive. Taptic style feedback just isn't the same.
You don't but some users do, a lot. I suspect making the face of the key remappable rather than anon F numbers could encourage more people to use them though though without a real key shape to feel for, it's harder to do it without having to look down.
Currently, Karabiner doesn't yet support mapping key combos. But it looks like they're constantly adding features. You could make a donation to make it worth his while. He also responds to emails so maybe you could talk with him about sponsoring such an effort. I'd be willing to chip in.
yeah, i can see that.
i just tether in a pinch so battery life isn't a major concern for me. if there were less wifi connections available to me, it'd be a bigger concern
Really? 90% of Mac users buy Apple laptops for showing off the logo at the coffee shop?
Smells like projection to me, or something a high school student would say.
TBH, it's not important to me - I'll get one, and put it up on a stand and just use my external keyboard 99% of the time...
I have to agree; I used my brother's Macbook Pro keyboard the other day and it felt...dated.
The problem isn't using an alternative. Why should I, as a user, adapt and change my ways?
I'm using my Macbook as an investment, as a tool to get my work done, and for over a decade, I've been doing things a certain way. Instead, now, I'm forced to update my muscle memory, update the workflow I do, update key mapping, etc. And God forbid I have to work on a different Macbook that's not updated. That means, I have to fix the way I do work depending on which workstation I'm on.
The missing ports, I can tolerate, we get it. It's the same transition as it was in the early 2000s with getting rid of floppy for CD, introducing USB over the older serial/parallel ports. Those things make sense. This, simply doesn't. This isn't courage, this is Ive and his team being a crazy.
Okay everybody stop it. Professionals do not use Function keys. Not ever, never. F-keys are a failed concept from 1965 and were replaced with Shortcuts a long time ago. At least ⌘C gives you a little hint on [C]opying. Nobody knows what his F4 and F8 keys do in each application. It's way harder to memorize a number with an action and it's almost impossible when the commands differ from application to application. That's why Media keys replaced the useless F-keys and made them a secondary option for backward compatibility purposes. Now the Magic Toolbar is finally a working attempt to offer a row of programmable app-specific soft keys. It's certainly a massive improvement to read the whole name of a command out loud, like [Cancel]. Especially for non-english speakers, who will now be able to get buttons in their own language, [キャンセル]. This is what the row of F-keys always should have done, but didn't.