MacRumors Hands-On Photos of Apple's New iPad Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac mini

[MacsRuleOthersDrool]

That would just make things worse! I don't have much need to hook up a bunch of stuff to the iPad, that's what I use my desktop for. Editing on the little screen just isn't too practical.

I'm already sick of having having to remember the headphone to Lightning dongle for my iPhone X, and not being able to charge while using my good headphones. Now I'd need a USB-C to headphone jack dongle, plus a lightning to USB-C adapter, or remember another cable. Three dongles or extra cables whenever I travel... Just not worth the hassle.

Maybe if Photoshop for iPad turns out to be useful I'll reconsider someday, but at this point I'm sick of Apple's smartier-than-thou approach to its customers. There's no law saying you can only have one port, they could have had USB-C and kept the Lightning and headphone jack.

Couldn't have kept the same form-factor and had that ancient 3.5mm jack. Don't need a Lightning Jack when you have USB-C. Everyone whined about wanting Apple to SWITCH from Lightning to USB-C. Apple listened. Now you're bitching that you want Lightning TOO!!!!

BTW, a Y-cable for your analog Headphones and Lightning Charging is about $12 on Amazon. Get over yourself.

Time marches on. Too bad if you want the train to stop because YOU have picked a moment in time that you want to remain-in.

My entertainment system at home used to be a mass of RCA cables and an analog A/V switch. I finally got tired of swimming upstream, and one fine day, bought an HDMI A/V switch, and a few HDMI cables. The analog A/V switch is sitting on a shelf, and all those RCA cables are in a gallon ziploc bag. In short, I went from a totally analog-based system to a totally digital (HDMI and TOSLink)-based system in a couple of hours one afternoon. VERY glad I did!

Bottom line: Stop being so Parochial, and EMBRACE CHANGE! Stop seeing it as some evil plot by Apple, and try and see what really IS better about a USB-C-based iPad Pro. Users, by and large, will see this as a Positive change, as well they should. Actively try to understand "why"...

I wasn't suggesting you have a USB-C dock attached to your iPad while you have it in your lap; but for mobile situations (about which I have no idea what your interest level is), throwing a small USB-C dock in your bag so you can hook up to a Projector in a conference room, or transfer something onto/off of an SD card or USB stick, seems to me to be a very useful option to have.

 

[mihike]

Couldn't have kept the same form-factor and had that ancient 3.5mm jack. Don't need a Lightning Jack when you have USB-C. Everyone whined about wanting Apple to SWITCH from Lightning to USB-C. Apple listened. Now you're bitching that you want Lightning TOO!!!!

... Get over yourself.

Time marches on. Too bad if you want the train to stop because YOU have picked a moment in time that you want to remain-in.
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Weird stuff. You're so insistent everybody should want the same features in an iPad as you, you feel it's okay to insult people.

I merely expressed why I was disappointed and wouldn't be buying the new iPad. I don't want more dongles. I want to plug in my headphones into my phone and my iPad. I don't to remember dongles and cables, I just want stuff to work.

I don't care about USB-C at the moment. You clearly do, that's great. But I'm not going to spend $1000 on an iPad with major deficiencies (for my needs) to my current one just because you're upset by anyone with different wants in a product than you.

 

[MacsRuleOthersDrool]

Weird stuff. You're so insistent everybody should want the same features in an iPad as you, you feel it's okay to insult people.

I merely expressed why I was disappointed and wouldn't be buying the new iPad. I don't want more dongles. I want to plug in my headphones into my phone and my iPad. I don't to remember dongles and cables, I just want stuff to work.

I don't care about USB-C at the moment. You clearly do, that's great. But I'm not going to spend $1000 on an iPad with major deficiencies (for my needs) to my current one just because you're upset by anyone with different wants in a product than you.

So sorry that Apple doesn't make a tablet with every single connector, past and present.

USB-C got cheers from the audience at Tuesday's Event. I think you are out-voted.

 

[DeepIn2U]

If they can put Face ID on an iPad, why not on a Mac? Seems backwards that the new MacBook Air still has the Touch ID sensor.

For now the backwards hold up is volume: 4 devices in production use FaceID hardware and the warranty replacement and repairs for 3yrd of each are needed. When newer tech with less components is ready and triple the volume in production in half the time then we’ll see it come to laptops and their desktop.