dws-2

"Some bending is normal." -- that sounds pretty bad to me.  Better PR-wise for Apple to just state their less than half a millimeter tolerance, then stop, referring the press to their return policy. Instead, they seem to be feeding the story.

rwx9901 said:

Good grief the things that people belly ache about.

Do the people that own this realize what they've got in their possession?  Talk about first world problems.  So, it's got a slight bent in it.  Does it hamper performance?  No, it does not.

I wish my life were so in tune with goodness that stupid crap like this would bother me.

The sky is falling the sky is falling!!

Step back from your perfect world and take a deep breath.  So many other things to consider and concern ourselves with on this planet and you all focusing on crap like this.  Unbelievable.

Better, then, to complain about the complainers! 😏

It's the only iOS upgrade that I can remember that actually makes every device better than it was before.

buttesilver said:

USB-C (TB3) has been a letdown for me. The ports or the cables get loose way faster than any other connector I've ever used. It's nice to have unidirectional plug-in, but on all my babied devices, the connectors are hit and miss. Not well developed. And I'm not sure how you'd fix it, but I have a number of devices I either need to get new cables for, or figure out a way to "fatten" the plugs to make them tighter...

I have the same problem, and this is with Apple-supplied cables. I'm not at all sure usb-c is getting better. It has a flaky connector, and it's impossible to know what the cord does. Given a cord with the same connectors, that cord should do the same thing, and that's before you take into account third party cables that can be flaky. A given cord might support any number of different speeds and standards, it may charge at 65 watts, it may charge at 85 watts, it might not charge at all. And there's no visible way to know what a cord will do. So when you plug something in and it doesn't work, there are at least three options: first, the device doesn't support doing that with usb-c; second, the device supports it, but the cable does not; and third, both the device and the cable support it, but the cable is bad or not of sufficient quality to support it. Oh, a fourth option is that the connector isn't in there "just right". I get this all the time with my $60 Apple-branded cable and my Apple-sold LG 5K display.

I'm not clear how these issues are going to be solved.

mac_128 said:

maccad said:

"I’m curious how anyone could use a physical keyboard without a trackpad. It would drive me nuts." The touch screen is the trackpad. Check out Microsoft's Surface Book and Surface Studio. They take a completely different approach.

Yes, but this is exactly what Phil said was the reason they weren't making a touch screen Mac. Lifting the arm to touch the screen wasn't an ergonomic solution. So when the iPad is used in the exact same manner, suddenly it's acceptable when lifting the arm is a constant activity, whereas it would only be an occasional thing on a Mac?

Which is it? 

Excellent point. Apple clearly hasn't figured out the usability solution for the iPad as a laptop replacement. Windows addressed the problem by making their tablet a laptop with some weak tablet use cases. Apple is making the iPad a tablet with some weak laptop use cases.

I sometimes wonder if there really is a good solution for this, but my opinion is that Apple should add a trackpad to the iPad keyboard and have it work only for text editing and for apps that specifically support it. I think that would add a TON of usefulness without many downsides. But, unfortunately, I'm not in charge at Apple.