dysamoria

Ha ha, but it’s probably just a patent they’ll never use which is published to make sure that they got there first and have all the legal “protections” of the utterly broken US patent system.

As for this glass keyboard idea...

 No.

I don’t even like the iPad Pro Smart Keyboard I own, and that’s still a mechanical keyboard. My fingers can barely distinguish between the keys and the keyless surface, the keys barely travel, and key mashing goes on a lot more there than on any of my three Mac keyboards. It’s perfectly safe from dust, though. I put up with it because it’s better than not having a keyboard on my iPad (though Apple clearly don’t design iOS with it in mind, with a lot lacking in usability) and because I didn’t want third-party devices at the time.

Apple is spending time and money researching these things to find out if they’re viable (despite it seeming obvious that they aren’t, sometimes things turn out to be workable when done a certain way) and that would be fine... if they learned the facts.

Instead, I think they’re just finding only what they want to believe. Their myopic obsession with thinness, and their corporate mindlessness (being lead by the nose by stock prices and “investors”), suggests to me that today’s Apple are not going to come away from the research with any lessons learned.

Apple today is not the Apple that earned a reputation for brilliance and wisdom in user interface/experience research and design. Since 2013, Apple has been doing things completely opposite of all the established knowledge around human-computer interfacing for which they previously were credited. Hasn’t stopped the faithful from continuing their loyal obeisance, but that’s what belief without critical thought does.

williamlondon said:

calaverasgrande said:

idiotic idea from a company that has lost direction. Apple has gone down this path of forcing design changes on customers that neither improve their experience nor add anything significant to the product. They are just changes for changes sake. The headphone jack went away because? The adoption of USB C at the exclusion of other standard ports like USB A and SD cards? I hope they do adopt the glass keyboard. If it's anything like the force touch or haptic feedback it will be a dismal failure. All the legions of coders and developers who adore Macbooks will ditch them for HP and Dell. After a dismal sales meeting they will finally be forced to assess their ivory tower design ethos of putting form at the expense of function.

Reminds me of that Friends episode where Joey uses the thesaurus to write a letter and it ended up being nothing but a bunch of unintelligible phrases linked together by punctuation. Just because you use the big boys phrases (i.e. known troll memes), doesn't mean you're any good at it.

If you had difficulty parsing the comment you’re complaining about, that’s on you. 

ihatescreennames said:

Am I The I only one that wonders what Siri is saying that qualifies as "improper and humiliating speech” or “sexist, racist and violent phrases”?

What is it that Hebrew Siri says that English Siri does not?

It’s not that Siri has offensive things programmed in that it can say. It’s that the text to speech function, using her voice, is being used by some people to say offensive things in her voice. It’s not really about Siri. It’s about text to speech and the voice used in that language.

knowitall said:

Apple can make a big move and make all its (MAC) products $200 to $300 cheaper.

ha ha ha ha ha. There is no way Apple would pass any savings on to the user. Cheaper for them to build, maybe. They’d keep the extra profit. That’s the mission: all profit, all the time. No public company serves the consumers. Their real client is shareholders & “investors”.