flaneur

Conspiracy-Apple said:

The AR revolution won’t be happening if the boss of   is not a product guy. 

Two things: Tim has said that AR (and presumably glasses) will be a bigger product line than iPhones — he can think like a product guy.

Second, the idea that a single personality is a driver of success for a gigantic entity like the mature Apple is an oversimplification. Even Jobs needed product guys like Ive and the crew he eventually built out, and certainly Jobs needed Cook to run the logistics of the business.

anantksundaram said:

flaneur said:

anantksundaram said:

Apple's new keyboard is an utter POS. 

I might as well be whacking the ends of my finger on my desk...

If you’re whacking the keyboard then you’re “using it wrong.” Many people are tactility challenged and use too much force on computer keyboards. You might be one of these.

I find the keyboad a joy to use, but I started out on an upright Underwood typewriter back in the 60s at a newspaper, hammering that clunker all day long.

Once many years ago I was typing on a friend’s computer, and she said “Don’t hit the keys so hard.” I had not been aware that I was, and she made me realize that one should use the minimum force to get the job done. With anything. I learned that also as a mechanic. Some people trash their cars by tearing into driveways or thrashing the transmission or clutch, others don’t. 

Still, it appears that the butterfly mechanism is way too vulnerable to the heavy-handed. Maybe Apple should have remembered the original meaning of “foolproof,” and made them so.

Of course! I am typing it wrong!! Thank you, thank you, thank you.  

/facepalm

Just a suggestion that maybe a lighter touch would reveal the one benefit of the keyboard. It was you who used the word “whacking.” Sorry if I took your hyperbole literally. You’re welcome, though.

anantksundaram said:

Apple's new keyboard is an utter POS. 

I might as well be whacking the ends of my finger on my desk...

If you’re whacking the keyboard then you’re “using it wrong.” Many people are tactility challenged and use too much force on computer keyboards. You might be one of these.

I find the keyboad a joy to use, but I started out on an upright Underwood typewriter back in the 60s at a newspaper, hammering that clunker all day long.

Once many years ago I was typing on a friend’s computer, and she said “Don’t hit the keys so hard.” I had not been aware that I was, and she made me realize that one should use the minimum force to get the job done. With anything. I learned that also as a mechanic. Some people trash their cars by tearing into driveways or thrashing the transmission or clutch, others don’t. 

Still, it appears that the butterfly mechanism is way too vulnerable to the heavy-handed. Maybe Apple should have remembered the original meaning of “foolproof,” and made them so.

Trump speaks in fits and starts instead of sentences. He has below normal abilities in syntax and grammar because he can hardly read. His verbal skills are formed by dialog on television. 

A shorthand construction like “Tim Apple” is therefore perfectly acceptable to him, and he has no idea that it would be jarring to others, who expect language to work literally as well as orally.

spice-boy said:

Do we need yet another device which requires electricity to work when the previous device didn't. This is a step backwards Apple for the environment and simple practical use. 

The reason that the wired earbuds have wires is because they “require electricity to work,” which they get from the phone. 

I’ve had my wireless Airpods from day 1, now well over two years, and they’re still working just fine. By now I would have gone through at least one set of wired earbuds because they get caught on a door handle or in a car door and ripped out of the phone. 

I remember wired buds as being a constant hassle. A mess. I’ve enjoyed more than two years of freedom from that. Well worth the $160 I paid, even if they died tomorrow. I do hope that Apple will take them back for recycling or safe disposal, though. Same with the wired ones!!!

dysamoria said:

No. Never. Will not buy. This product is disposable in much worse a way than even the Pencil. Thanks for letting us know that these perform like this, even this short of a time after they were released.

You’d better not get them. They might make you happy, and that would be a disaster. For you.