JustinTO

I was in the Apple Store (in the Toronto Eaton Centre) two days ago looking at the MacBook which I've been thinking would be an incredible mobile laptop.  The "B" key wasn't working on the keyboard.  I was astonished.  1) because Apple's "only affects a minority of customers" claim fell so obviously flat in the face of that they can't even get their floor model keyboards to work 2) how much this made me question trusting Apple's products knowing they can't even get a keyboard right.   Should customers paying premium prices have to think about key travel, key noise and key functioning?  Shouldn't we just be typing away oblivious to all of this?  My MacBook Pro gets so hot the keys get uncomfortably warm.  Never experience this on my Thinkpad.  Starting to think I HAVE been drinking the cool-aid.  I have invested so much into the Apple ecosystem It pains me to be finding the Surface Pro looking better and better all the time. 

I can afford the X but will wait to upgrade from my SE to SE2.  One-handed use and pocketability are the most important features to me (I think Jobs had something to say about this).  I do regret missing out on the most advanced camera specs.  If they came out with an "X mini" with an edge-to-edge screen in a smaller form factor and advanced camera I'd be thrilled. 

Even simple requests fail. I can't remember the actual item, but a few days ago my query was "Hey, Siri <beep beep> Please add a reminder to buy [toothpaste]" and Siri didn't understand the request. I tried repeating it slowly and got the same response. I tried again and Siri pulled up a bunch of web search results. Same thing happened during a simple reminder request a week or so ago.