Thursday, October 27, 2016

Apple: Stop taking away stuff

You have heard about and perhaps seen the new IPhone 7 which looks almost EXACTLY like its predecesser (ok, better camera and an idiot click sound on the home button), except for one thing: no more headphone jack. Oh what's the rationale behind that? Some say that audio jack is old technology therefore need to go. Yet to hear how good is that comma-shape headphone (which you know you will lose eventually).

Now look at new Macbook. What is new virtual key bar thing?

Oh my, no Function Keys? no Escape key?! http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/10/25/13409258/apple-new-macbook-pro-no-escape-key.

How do you use things like vi and emacs without it? yes function keys... are not that useful... but they were once programmable buttons. But nobody programs them now because nearly nobody writes stand-alone programs... just programs running within a program like within a browser.

Taking out things needed things is uncool. Diehard fans may call it "courageous" to "lead the industry" by removing stuff they think is no longer useful. Yes that audio cable is needed. Yes "ESC" button is needed. The diehard fans and just blindly use whatever Apple give them.

Good news is: I-will-not-use-the-Mac. Go ahead. take EVERYTHING out.

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