jcallows

I just love the Touch Bar!  I hardly use it but it's just so cool to look at!  I especially love how it flickers, flashes lights and changes colors whenever you switch apps.  It's not distracting-- it's just exciting!  Why let all those cheap laptop makers like Dell, HP and Samsung have all the fun and be the only ones that have these colorful flashing lights? Nothing says refined and class more than a lit-up, candied-color strip staring at your face from the keyboard.  Moreover, the added level of complexity and increased cost for something that's rarely, if ever, used, just adds more spice to life by making the MacBooks more challenging to fix and to afford.  Kudos, Apple, on your new direction!  But if you do decide to remove the beloved Touch Bar, please replace it with something equally as annoying, like say, oh, a big ugly notch!

Signed, 
An Anonymous Member of Apple's Post-Jony Ive Design Team

round please

samsung burning evidence?

avon b7 said:

The advent of triple camera iPhones brought us ugly.

If correct, these 17 series models are the new ugly. And they have an extra ration of ugly slapped on for good measure. 

Along with the lovely notch.  By the way, you'd think with all those lenses that one of them would be for recording in landscape mode while holding the phone vertically.  It's been nearly 20 years and we still have to suffer watching videos as if they were shot through a picket fence.  Not because we like how that looks but because holding the phone vertically is the most comfortable way to hold a phone when recording videos.

How interesting.  China is becoming more like the US while the US is becoming more like China.

The MacBook Air will cannibalize the MacBook Pro.  Aside from the M2 chip. it's design will improve drastically.  Apple got ride of that cheap taper look and made it flat and symmetrical all around.  It's also even thinner than the 13" MacBook Pro which is thinner than the 14" version.  And they kept the function keys.  Though the notch will be there, it can be more easily tolerated given the other design changes.  The MacBook Air should really be simply called the MacBook as the Air implies you are sacrificing power for portability which you are not.