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I like USB-C, lightning, and the new keyboards, although losing magsafe sucks. Having dockability baked into the format is great though. If they move everything to USB-C they will have me satisfied. The dongles are whatever. I’m not convinced I need permanent ports when I’m not at my desk. Losing the iPhone headphone jack is only an inconvenience when I’m negligent about plugging my phone in and am traveling. I airplay to my receiver at home. I started using a different pair of bluetooth headphones when on the go, but the headphones I actually like, 598s and 579s, are wired. The dongles are priced right. If they were $20 I’d be more upset. The keyboards were most surprising; as a mechanical keyboard guy, a few months and I’m finding it’s quicker due to low travel and more predictable action. I don’t even have a separate keyboard on my desk now. I think people just underestimate the big picture benefit of letting Apple shepherd you into the experience they have designed. To them, “everyone” uses bluetooth, so the jack is irrelevant. For me, as someone who REALLY likes my wired headphones, I still get it. The seamless bluetooth experience is nice in and out of the car and traveling. They make a top level decision like “slim, quiet keyboards!”, “no more buttons!”, or “one cable!” that is appealing to investors and consumers and stick to it. The fact that they are the only brand that seems able to strongly execute on these types of unified schemes, often requiring partners to architect to a specific API (airplay and homekit, for instance) could be proof that the only way to do that is with a lot of steam behind you and strong opinions behind design choices. I cannot wait for what is next in terms of mac/iOS unification. |