How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name
&gt; It&#x27;s YOUR fault if you easily forget about foreign objects in your ear<p>I don&#x27;t use them. My friends do, and they don&#x27;t lose them when they&#x27;re <i>in their ear</i>. Also, guess what? I don&#x27;t risk losing my headphones just because I fall asleep on long trips. It&#x27;s not my fault, it&#x27;s Apple&#x27;s product being poor at fitting an extremely common usecase.<p>&gt; Subjective. Source?<p>Go to an audio store and ask them for monitoring headphones. You can&#x27;t explain audio quality to someone that has never experienced it, these things are a night&#x2F;day difference.<p>&gt; Can you tell me how YOU would design something without any wires that&#x27;s not easy to miss?<p>I would use shorter, interchangeable wires for the right occasion rather than go wireless and have to <i>charge</i> my headphones, tolerate a worse audio quality than I&#x27;m accustomed to and risk easily losing them.<p>&gt; Does not diminish its advantages.<p>Yes it does, same pros but with an extra con and on top of that, the touch bar is not a free addition to a screen and keyboard you already have.<p>&gt;&quot;No proper tactile feedback unlike a proper key&quot; can be used to downplay the utility of all the phone and tablet touchscreens in the world, too.<p>Smartphones and tablets have a single screen, or at worst, they&#x27;re contiguous on the same plane.<p>&gt; A mouse does not provide visual feedback depending on what you&#x27;re doing.<p>No, that&#x27;s the screen&#x27;s job. I don&#x27;t have to look at my mouse to change volume, I just look at the screen. Or rather, I use my keyboard (caps lock+[s&#x2F;d] in my case), since I don&#x27;t see the benefit of more than 5% stepped increases.<p>&gt; I&#x27;m looking straight at the screen right now on a 2016 MBP, and the Touch Bar is within my field of vision.<p>And my phone is technically in front of me beyond my monitor, but without focusing on its smaller screen with a different DPI I can&#x27;t read it. Which is why I started using KDE Connect after all: to get notifications on my desktop.<p>&gt; In any case, it&#x27;s no worse than having to discover, learn and remember what each FN does in each app.<p>In how many apps do you exactly use its FN-options? And how is it any different from labeling them in the screen next to the button it means? You&#x27;d still not have to look at the keyboard. You can even do it for apps using the Touchbar API: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;how-to&#x2F;how-to-get-a-touch-bar-on-your-old-mac&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;how-to&#x2F;how-to-get-a-touch-bar-on-your-o...</a><p>&gt; Hyperbole.
If you carried 5 different devices with your laptop, you would need to carry at most one USB&#x2F;USB-C adapter and maybe a multiport USB hub.<p>For 5 yes. For 4, no. The old laptop I mentioned has 4 USB ports, where I regularly plug an external kb and mouse, an USB stick and my phone for tethering or debugging an app on a real device.<p>&gt; I have an iPhone, iPad, a Bluetooth Mouse, a Bluetooth keyboard (for games) and a WiFi harddisk. I haven&#x27;t needed to plug them into my 2016 MBP yet, nor do I carry all of them in my backpack, but I do have one small USB&#x2F;USB-C adapter for when I need it. File transfers of even several GBs work flawlessly with AirDrop.<p>Cool. I only need my laptop charger when I leave home.<p>&gt; Which &quot;all downsides?&quot;<p>Again, cost and having to actually look down at the small thing to be able to use it.<p>&gt; You still have a mouse, trackpad and keyboard. Why are you comparing it with them? The Touch Bar replaces FN keys, and it&#x27;s better than them.<p>Last time I checked, the FN keys are on the keyboard.<p>&gt; Say I have contacts named after companies&#x2F;organizations, and I use tens of different custom labels for each phone number&#x2F;email for the different people working at them. Which of these is faster&#x2F;better?<p>Assuming you have more than 10 of them, the keyboard and input with autocompletion rather than the scroll list on a separate screen.<p>Or the same thing as the touch bar but on the screen. We&#x27;ve had this technology for a while: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;en&#x2F;1&#x2F;1b&#x2F;Norton_Commander_5.51.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;en&#x2F;1&#x2F;1b&#x2F;Norton_Comman...</a><p>&gt; Subjective. &quot;Gimmicks&quot; can be used against any feature from any company. All of these things <i></i><i></i><i></i>highly increase user convenience<i></i><i></i><i></i><p>When all you can offer is copies of barely useful things that have already been done, you can hardly call your company &quot;amazing&quot; or &quot;futuristic&quot;. The rest of the quote speaks for itself.<p>&gt; Your dismissals are a classic example of the tall poppy syndrome; Were Apple a smaller company, you probably wouldn&#x27;t be putting so much effort in downplaying their accomplishments.<p>And your relentless shilling is a classic example of blind fanboyism (as redundant as it sounds) and choice-supportive bias. You&#x27;re literally attaching a label to anyone criticizing a corporation you&#x27;re trying to sell. Do I need to link my comments shitting on smaller companies too? Or when I praise Apple&#x2F;{insert corporation here} when they do a good thing? Do yourself a favor and reflect on your thought process for a bit. Unless you&#x27;re doing marketing work for Apple, in which case you should grab a PR book.