I understand your concerns with the software Magic Toolbar, but while the ports change is inconvenient, it's the only way they can push USB C as a replacement for USB A.
"Hey, let's make a machine that you literally can't use until you replace everything you might use it with." That's a heck of a lot more extreme than merely "inconvenient".
And you know, they could just
provide the alternative, and let the marketplace push USB C because it has actual benefits for the user. If it has few enough benefits that they genuinely can't sell anything for it without pushing people forcefully... Maybe that's not a good upgrade, then?
Similarly, removing the headphone jack was the only way they could truly push wireless as the replacement for wired.
Okay, but what if I don't
want them to push that? What if I really like the ability to use the audio hardware I already own? I have a stereo system, I have mixers, I have all this stuff, and it all works with headphone jacks. None of it has even the beginnings of a way to do "wireless". Furthermore, I've had wireless audio, and I've
hated it. It's always been of poor quality, and prone to failures that audio cables didn't have. I can have two computers right next to each other using audio cables, and they work. If it's wireless, they interfere with each other. I had a wireless headset for my phone, and it was awful, because it needed recharging, and then the battery went bad and it wouldn't hold a charge, and I gave up and got cheap wired headsets because they
actually work.
Yes, I get it, they're pushing a thing they want to sell. But what they're pushing is completely unambiguously worse for me than the thing they had before. There is no way I'll get an iphone 7, and unless they give us SOME kind of headphone jack, probably not an 8 or 9 or 10 either. I still like my physical headphones. I'll buy hardware that lets me use them.
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Guys, calm down. Nothing has been announced yet! You're all acting like it's the end of the world to remove a key that hasn't been removed. For all you know it's still there. They could also change the software so you don't need it and use something else instead, you know, seeing as how they make the software?
We've seen the pictures of the keyboard, the key's not there.
And... No, they can't change the software, because they are not the only software vendor. I use my Mac to, among other things, access other computers and use software on those computers. Some of that software uses the escape key. Lack of that key will
suck for me.
It's not "the end of the world", any more than it'd be the "end of the world" for them to make a keyboard that didn't have a number row, or any punctuation. It wouldn't end the world, it'd just make the laptop a horrible pain to use.