That gas in the "canned air" cans has a staggeringly high global warming potential. Apple ought to sell a version which is environmentally safe.
Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake
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Re: Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake
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> they tried a Windows laptop and liked it This requires Windows to become likeable. I (and plenty of other people) will like Windows once it: * has a consistent UI instead of 3 control panels with icons and UI paradigms ranging from Windows 95 to Windows 10. * ships with quality applications that don't try to eat the entire screen to display 2 lines of text (pretty much all "modern" built-in apps are a disaster in t…
Windows sucks but how bout Dell XPS with Ubuntu?
Ubuntu has a lot of those problems too, in fact that's why I compare Windows 10 to a half-assed Linux distribution.
Re: Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake
#93I don't understand the failure of the butterfly keyboard? I haven't had any issues with my 2017 macBook and it seems to keep kruft from getting under my keys (A problem I had with the older macbook keyboards) I also live on my macbook so it's constantly in use, and much to my displeasure, around food.
So your entire comment is based purely on anecdotal evidence?
Re: Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake
#94hmm... am I alone in being someone who likes the butterfly keyboard?
No, I like mine also. I'd be annoyed too if a bunch of my keys were sticking, but they aren't, so I guess I'm lucky.
Re: Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake
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The built-in messaging platform (iMessage & FaceTime) is brilliant. Microsoft shoud've done the same since they bought Skype (and back then Skype was actually good software) but instead they decided to turn it to garbage.
I don't understand how Microsoft or Google managed to screw up messaging so bad. It is a level of utter incompetence (especially from Google) that surely is unrivalled. I mean what Apple has implemented really isn't all that complex.
Google is somewhat understandable, they don't really want to be in that business (also their corporate culture encourages short-lived projects).
But Microsoft? Why the hell did they even buy Skype? Same story with LinkedIn - the entire product is garbage now.
Re: Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake
#96I don't understand the failure of the butterfly keyboard? I haven't had any issues with my 2017 macBook and it seems to keep kruft from getting under my keys (A problem I had with the older macbook keyboards) I also live on my macbook so it's constantly in use, and much to my displeasure, around food.
Nearly half of the third-gen Apple butterfly keyboards at Basecamp have failed. There are few other personal reports with similar percentages. Second problem is that it will cost a lot of money to fix your keyboard out of warranty.
That's an amazingly high percentage, and suggests staggering incompetence at Apple HQ. A company with that kind of market cap should not be in this situation.
Re: Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake
#9715+ years as an Apple user, this is my biggest pet peeve. The other two being: - the touch strip, which I find mostly annoying. I'd prefer physical buttons with the ability to show different labels (a la Optimus keyboard). - whichever idiot thought putting the power plug at the bottom of the Magic Mouse was a good idea.
Dropping the magnetic power cord connector is a major issue for me, but otherwise I wholeheartedly agree.
Re: Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake
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Woa. For the X1 Carbon, Lenovo actually designed ducts to channel accidental water ingress away from the important parts. It's kind of sad that Apple gets away with just focusing on the glitzy externals - and that their plethora customers don't care.
They do care, but Apple has a monopoly on making MacOS hardware and people are unable to “vote with their wallet”. Same thing with iPhones and the headphone jack.
You can buy a Lightning to 3.5mm adapter off eBay for $2.
And not sure if you've looked around your particular city but most people are using wireless headphones these days.
Re: Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake
#9915+ years as an Apple user, this is my biggest pet peeve. The other two being: - the touch strip, which I find mostly annoying. I'd prefer physical buttons with the ability to show different labels (a la Optimus keyboard). - whichever idiot thought putting the power plug at the bottom of the Magic Mouse was a good idea.
You missed charging the Apple Pencil on the ipad pro.
Arrow keys being disabled in Safari iOS
3D Touch
Removing the 3.5mm Jack...
Re: Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Woa. For the X1 Carbon, Lenovo actually designed ducts to channel accidental water ingress away from the important parts. It's kind of sad that Apple gets away with just focusing on the glitzy externals - and that their plethora customers don't care.
They do care, but Apple has a monopoly on making MacOS hardware and people are unable to “vote with their wallet”. Same thing with iPhones and the headphone jack.
Though on that front I feel like they did the Appleish thing: had an excuse to remove the jack (waterproofing), moved the industry in the direction they wanted, released a product that everyone loves (AirPods).