williamh

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 
Is sarcasm your middle name?

Afarstar said: Completely unnecessary comment. 

Congratulations for correctly identifying my unnecessary comment and for advancing the discourse with a completely cogent and necessary comment.  Well done.  

netrox said:

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

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.

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.