Apple just told the world it has no idea who the Mac is for
I honestly don&#x27;t see how all this whining is justified, except for the fact that you need dongles to hook up your shiny new iPhone and EarPods to your MacBook.<p>• People wanted Skylake, they got Skylake.<p>• They got faster GPU and I&#x2F;O and great battery life. The numbers on these are impressive, especially the I&#x2F;O.<p>• They got 4 ports of the fastest and most versatile interfaces for external devices ever. The removal of all other ports is really no worse than when the VERY FIRST iMAC went USB-only back in 1998! [1][2] We all see how the rest of the industry followed, as it will again when everything becomes USB-C.<p>• The Touch Bar is actually a cool new input device that brings context-sensitive multitouch to macOS without bastardizing the traditional desktop UI as Windows does. You wanted innovation, you got it. What do people expect to happen to laptops at this point anyway?? I don&#x27;t see any good alternative ideas being offered.<p>• Lastly, and I&#x27;m amazed at how this is being overlooked in every discussion: The move to 30-BIT-PER-CHANNEL SCREENS! I have an iPad Pro and the difference that a wide color display brings has to be seen in person to be appreciated. Accurate color representation in consumer devices is a field which has languished <i>for over 20 years.</i> I believe mad props are due Apple for pushing everyone ahead, and up until now I don&#x27;t think there were any good laptops for actually creating and previewing P3 content, without connecting them to expensive external screens.<p>----<p>Now the bad things.<p>I only recently purchased an iPhone 7 and a 9.7&quot; iPad Pro. I love them to bits, especially their wide color cameras and screens, but I won&#x27;t be able to connect them to an already-expensive new MBP, or use the new Lightning EarPods, without spending even more money on dongles and carrying around extra stuff with me everywhere.<p>Given the prices, I really think Apple should have softened this by at least bundling Lightning-to-USB-C with the new MacBooks. <i>WHY</i> fight within your own ecosystem?<p>The naming is also a disaster. I don&#x27;t really mind them calling the 9.7&quot; iPad &quot;Pro&quot; (it&#x27;s an amazing device) but putting out a &quot;MacBook Pro&quot; without a Touch Bar really muddies the waters and only creates confusion. They should&#x27;ve just called it a 13&quot; MacBook, and given it a choice of more colors.<p>These are the areas where they are justifiably deserving of ire, but on the whole I think all this relentless negativity is a bit excessive and feels like the work of competitor-hired PR firms, but I hope it pushes Apple to address the actual issues.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;IMac#History" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;IMac#History</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Legacy-free_PC" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Legacy-free_PC</a>