williamh

netrox said:

The sum of little things is exactly what makes Apple products so much better than competition. 

While I take heat for my criticism of the Apple self-adulation for doing a new little thing, I agree with you completely.  It is the sum of a lot of little things that makes Apple products better than the competition and worth the premium that Apple can charge.

StrangeDays said:

williamh said:

In general, Bergeron expresses that the development of the new MacBook Air presented a significant engineering challenge, more than what many people might realize. However, she emphasizes that Apple doesn't want customers to focus on those technical details.
"We don't even want people to consider that," she said. "We want to do everything that we can to make this experience great."

LOL LOL LOL   Every time Apple does some relatively little thing, we have to read about what it big deal it was.  Yeah, there were so many amazing challenges we had to overcome to make the screen 2 inches bigger.  It took a whole re-imagining of what 15 inches is.  All the engineering and other struggles.  The late nights.  The channeling Steve Jobs.  The ordering of bigger screens and consequent adjustments to a computer case.  I can't even imagine.  It's like sending people to Mars or building the pyramids.  We can't even comprehend how Apple's highly skilled and paid engineers were able to rise this challenge of doing a thing that Apple has done for years.  It's not just 2 inches, it's slightly more than 5cm, and that required careful study of the metric system.  .  We don't even want people to consider all this mundane work we are bragging about, just enjoy.

Spoken like a true ignorant. Reread: "the new MacBook Air presented a significant engineering challenge, more than what many people might realize."

I love how non-engineers just think all this stuff is super easy, barely an inconvenience, it just steps out of a clamshell fully formed like Aphrodite. As a software engineer we see constraints and compromises every day in our work, and we're just typing. I'm not a laptop engineer but I wouldn't doubt for a second that increasing the surface area of an extremely thin device has structural ramifications that must be addressed.

But you do you, it's all easy when you don't know what you don't know.

Yeah, I read that and I re-read that - thanks for the advice.  You are right - adding those two inches to a laptop was like designing and operating the Mars Rover.  I give Apple a lot of credit for lots of things - their stuff works great, the Vision Pro is going to be awesome to use - but not this.  I don't doubt for a second that there were issues that had to be addressed.  So what?  That's the job.  You are too easily impressed.

In general, Bergeron expresses that the development of the new MacBook Air presented a significant engineering challenge, more than what many people might realize. However, she emphasizes that Apple doesn't want customers to focus on those technical details.
"We don't even want people to consider that," she said. "We want to do everything that we can to make this experience great."

LOL LOL LOL   Every time Apple does some relatively little thing, we have to read about what it big deal it was.  Yeah, there were so many amazing challenges we had to overcome to make the screen 2 inches bigger.  It took a whole re-imagining of what 15 inches is.  All the engineering and other struggles.  The late nights.  The channeling Steve Jobs.  The ordering of bigger screens and consequent adjustments to a computer case.  I can't even imagine.  It's like sending people to Mars or building the pyramids.  We can't even comprehend how Apple's highly skilled and paid engineers were able to rise this challenge of doing a thing that Apple has done for years.  It's not just 2 inches, it's slightly more than 5cm, and that required careful study of the metric system.  .  We don't even want people to consider all this mundane work we are bragging about, just enjoy.

I am surprised that availability is already considered a problem for a $3,500 device that won't be available for many months and is widely considered too expensive for mass adoption.

My own assumptions:  It's awesome and too expensive for me.  Just like the Apple Watch, iPhone, etc. and I caved on all of them.  I think it will be easier to hold out on this one but eventually (when the price comes down) I will love it.

I don't think the problem with at least some of the older groups is lack of familiarity with technology.  It's just that older folks are less enamored with shiny objects, less likely to buy things they can't afford.

I'm not in line to buy. I'm in one of the "older" groups and I've got plenty of Apple stuff - MacBook Air S1, HomePods, apple tv, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, probably more.  $3,500 is just too steep.  Maybe I'll change my mind.

There will be plenty of killer applications for this device and the price will come down.  Can't you imagine how the online dating apps are going to use this tech?