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Re: Apple, a Trendsetter No More

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In article <here-FDB32D.15410016112016@news.individual.net>, android
<here@there.was> wrote:
> In article <e938qjFkb20U7@mid.individual.net>,
>  Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> > On 2016-11-16, Jim_Higgins <gordian240@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 11/16/16 7:34 AM, Calum wrote:
> > >> On 15/11/2016 20:11, Your Name wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Phil Schiller also seems to be an idiot. He claims Apple doesn't want
> > >>> to make a touchscreen laptop because it would cause a usage division
> > >>> between the laptop and desktop lines (due to a touchscreen iMac being
> > >>> too cumbersome to use, so one would be touchscreen and the other not)
> > >>> ... as if the silly Touch Bar gimmick hasn't already created that
> > >>> "usage division".
> > >>
> > >> Not really, at least not any more than
> > >> 3D/Force/Whatever-it's-called-this-week Touch. Anything you can do on
> > >> the touch bar, you can do some other way without it... and that will
> > >> have to be the case for at least as long as you can buy a new desktop or
> > >> laptop Mac from Apple that doesn't have one.
> > >
> > > Another pointless "feature"-the Touch Bar
> > 
> > Function keys with displays, so they can have context sensitive legends,
> > are a brilliant idea. And another one Apple stole from Xerox.
> 
> And I thought that it was a MS intervention to get the "Ribbons" on the 
> keyboard. You know, a doggy in the park thingy...

There's a reason why the Function Keys aren't used by most people ...
they're simply useless leftovers from the DOS / Windoze PC world. A
silly little screen that simply means yet somewhere else you have to
look to try and find a piece of functionality you want isn't going to
change that. It's just another useless gimmick by the post-Jobs Apple
that doesn't really know what to do next.   :-(

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Apple, a Trendsetter No More Jim_Higgins <gordian240@hotmail.com> - 2016-11-15 09:42 -0500
  Re: Apple, a Trendsetter No More Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-11-16 09:11 +1300
    Re: Apple, a Trendsetter No More Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-11-16 12:34 +0000
      Re: Apple, a Trendsetter No More Jim_Higgins <gordian240@hotmail.com> - 2016-11-16 08:41 -0500
        Re: Apple, a Trendsetter No More Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-11-16 14:29 +0000
          Re: Apple, a Trendsetter No More android <here@there.was> - 2016-11-16 15:41 +0100
            Re: Apple, a Trendsetter No More Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-11-17 09:09 +1300
              Re: Apple, a Trendsetter No More Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-16 21:11 +0000
          Re: Apple, a Trendsetter No More nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-16 11:00 -0500
      Re: Apple, a Trendsetter No More nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-16 11:00 -0500
      Re: Apple, a Trendsetter No More Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-11-17 09:05 +1300
    Re: Apple, a Trendsetter No More Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-16 15:55 +0000
    Re: Apple, a Trendsetter No More isquat@gmail.com - 2016-11-28 02:35 -0800
      Re: Apple, a Trendsetter No More Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-11-29 09:15 +1300
  Re: Apple, a Trendsetter No More Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-11-16 09:17 +1300
  Re: Apple, a Trendsetter No More Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-11-16 14:05 +0000

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