The invention of a costly free-range dongle with no device to attach to marks the apotheosis of a 30-year arc in Apple product design
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Apple's war on grandparents continues with this fully touch-sensitive monstrosity with a Siri button on the side, for easy misclickingpic.twitter.com/8wbb9UN46s
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Tim Cook now boasting that the Zappos app is built to run natively on Apple's new M1 processor, so you can order over 400,000 shoes per second
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Oh man, to be a fly on the wall at this design meeting. "I'm thinking metallic slab on a metal hinge" "Hinge sold separately?" "Of course." "I love it! But lose 5 of those ports on the back"pic.twitter.com/p7Mb1UKQmY
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No HDMI port or SD card but this top-of-the-line 2021 performance workstation will look fantastic with Hello Kitty earspic.twitter.com/tqv0ih4JQD
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No amount of keyboard redesign will ever touch Caps Lockpic.twitter.com/nAMd4eg5SR
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8 GB of memory! Ethernet! Two usable ports! And the pro model even comes with an internal clock card!pic.twitter.com/K9AregXqNF
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There's some really nice design call-outs here to older Mac design language, like the iMac-like color palette, or putting a "turn off my computer" button right next to the delete key.pic.twitter.com/lenREtXqde
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Very reminiscent of the "floppy eject button or hard power off switch" design choice during the PPC Mac era.pic.twitter.com/1zmIBqp85D
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My favorite was the Cube, which would power off if you put as much as a sheet of paper on its flat toppic.twitter.com/iaozyLfn0k
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