05-17-2017, 05:04 AM
Since Apple generally doesn't do what I want:
1) Thinner, with less functionality and fewer ports.
2) Please do not include an integrated ethernet port; it's not useful as a fast way to transfer data across multiple platforms with minimal network configuration knowledge and an inexpensive cable that you can make yourself in 2 minutes with the right tools. I prefer multiple cable standards that may or may not use the same connector but have different capabilities and that aren't universally available on all of Apple's devices much less across multiple other manufacturers.
3) Definitely no eSATA then, that's clearly a dead and useless medium for transferring data on drives!
4) More fancy high tech touch devices attached to the laptop that require special configuration and make enterprise deployment challenging by requiring open connections to the internet to access Apple servers to download updates.
5) Less tactile keys... I much prefer fumbling around hoping to hit the right key because my fingers can't tell where they are on the keyboard. Please advantage hunt-and-peck typists who have to look at the keyboard.
6) Definitely don't include a hardware button to activate Siri/Speech-to-text dictation. That wouldn't be useful at all and would encourage fumbling by aforementinoed hunt-and-peck typists. It definitely wouldn't do to work to advantage one class of user over others!
7) Do solder the screen to the motherboard with a delicate cable that frays; and make the screen able to bend extra-far so that the cable is really likely to fray and require an expensive repair. Definitely DO NOT consider returning to ram slots or m.2 for internal storage.
8) I definitely don't like taking photos, or storing or transferring them. So instead of makingiPhoto Photos Pictures (whatever you're going to rebrand your first-party app as this year while reducing functionality) just delete all photos upon connecting any device that stores them. The anguish I'd feel would be greatly diminished by transferrence from your increasingly lousy platform to the deep personal loss of such memories as they vanish forever. Forget SD cards or even micro-SD, because none of those are useful.
9) Implement more wireless technologies that require me to evolve eyeballs that see in radio frequency to understand what's going on with my data connections and why things aren't working. Because none of the environments I work in are so heavily trafficked in radio waves that a few more could certainly improve the signal to noise ratio of the things I'd like to get access to most.
10) Definitely don't put ANY lights on the outside of the case that give me any useful feedback about the device's state. And darken all the interface elements and decrease overall contrast, it's currently too easy for me to tell when my computer's on and the battery's low.
1) Thinner, with less functionality and fewer ports.
2) Please do not include an integrated ethernet port; it's not useful as a fast way to transfer data across multiple platforms with minimal network configuration knowledge and an inexpensive cable that you can make yourself in 2 minutes with the right tools. I prefer multiple cable standards that may or may not use the same connector but have different capabilities and that aren't universally available on all of Apple's devices much less across multiple other manufacturers.
3) Definitely no eSATA then, that's clearly a dead and useless medium for transferring data on drives!
4) More fancy high tech touch devices attached to the laptop that require special configuration and make enterprise deployment challenging by requiring open connections to the internet to access Apple servers to download updates.
5) Less tactile keys... I much prefer fumbling around hoping to hit the right key because my fingers can't tell where they are on the keyboard. Please advantage hunt-and-peck typists who have to look at the keyboard.
6) Definitely don't include a hardware button to activate Siri/Speech-to-text dictation. That wouldn't be useful at all and would encourage fumbling by aforementinoed hunt-and-peck typists. It definitely wouldn't do to work to advantage one class of user over others!
7) Do solder the screen to the motherboard with a delicate cable that frays; and make the screen able to bend extra-far so that the cable is really likely to fray and require an expensive repair. Definitely DO NOT consider returning to ram slots or m.2 for internal storage.
8) I definitely don't like taking photos, or storing or transferring them. So instead of making
9) Implement more wireless technologies that require me to evolve eyeballs that see in radio frequency to understand what's going on with my data connections and why things aren't working. Because none of the environments I work in are so heavily trafficked in radio waves that a few more could certainly improve the signal to noise ratio of the things I'd like to get access to most.
10) Definitely don't put ANY lights on the outside of the case that give me any useful feedback about the device's state. And darken all the interface elements and decrease overall contrast, it's currently too easy for me to tell when my computer's on and the battery's low.