Apple is no stranger to killing old technology. The original iMac famously removed not only the legacy ports but also the random floppy disk from this mortal coil. Elsewhere, the company has been aggressive about converting to solid-state storage and retina-quality displays, with little or no hesitation (and for good reason) to replace the old hardware.
This is to say that companies do not usually count nostalgia as an asset. Recently, rumors have been circulating about another feature that may find itself in the cut block: the Lightning connector that debuted on the iPhone 5 in 2012. The idea is to replace it with USB-C, which has already replaced the port owned by several iPad models. , As well as de facto connectors on modern Macs.
While this kind of transition will undoubtedly cause some panic among many users, I am for it. In the words of one of the best Star Wars movies of recent years: Let the past die. If you want to kill.
With that in mind, here are a few more features that can still be found in today’s Apple products, but those sun times should probably end sooner rather than later.
Touch bar: Touch of evil
Somewhere deep in Cupertino, there is almost certainly a lab with an impure experiment: a MacBook whose entire keyboard has been replaced with a featureless slab of glass. But to the public, Apple’s last attempt to bring Mac touchscreen technology was not really an uninterrupted success.
Yeah Al that sounds pretty crap to me, Looks like BT aint for me either.
To be fair, it’s already on its way. The 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1 chip is the only remaining product in Apple’s line-up that still has a strip of touch-sensitive buttons instead of physical function keys. And chances are, when the M2 versions revolve around, the touch bar will be pining for fjords.
Needless to say, the idea of using touch technology on Macs is a bad idea, but the touch bar didn’t really nail it. On the surface, it promises a higher level of customization and flexibility than static buttons, but its lack of responsiveness or the ability to use it frequently makes it more difficult than necessary. Combined with the fact that Apple believes it does not need further hardware upgrades Or In terms of software, the Touch Bar has largely faded over the years since its release. It’s time to dump her and move on.
Webcam: 1080p-eww
Is there a feature of the new Mac that has caused as much panic as the humble webcam? What was once thought to be Apple’s computer has become the top billing, thanks to the huge and sudden rise of video conferencing during the epidemic. But only the brand new Macs have finally abandoned the 720p webcam in favor of the somewhat uncomfortable 1080p version. (Let’s not go too far on the Apple Studio display camera.)
This is where Apple should have gone. Forget 1080p – it’s too 2010. Why not a 4K webcam? After all, iPhones and iPads have no qualms about crawling that quality camera – both the latest iPhones have the front end. And The rear camera is capable of recording video in 4K resolution.
This is undoubtedly a more expensive proposition, but when you consider that most people who buy a Mac with a built-in webcam are already spending over $ 1,000 (and possibly much more), it doesn’t seem like a single 4K-capable camera. Ask a lot. Apple may not admit it, remote work isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. And it’s not that Apple doesn’t benefit from it: FaceTime looks better on an iPhone than a Mac.
It’s ridiculous that Apple has equipped its Mac and Studio displays with 1080p cameras.
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SIM card: Know when to fold them
It’s 2022 and even the fancy iPhone you can buy still has a SIM card slot. Of course, there are arguments for backwards compatibility and there are certainly countries around the world where a physical SIM card is still more common (even here in the US). But with the advent of eSIM, managing and planning your cellular connection through an app is much easier than dealing with small, easily lost or damaged chips.
Apple’s advantages are simple: removing the SIM slot frees up valuable space inside the iPhone, makes it easier to waterproof, and allows them to stop packaging a package of these unnecessarily over-engineered SIM removal tools in each box.
And although SIM cards are effective when you want to plan two different phones (say when you’re traveling internationally), the latest iPhones and iPads already support dual eSIM. This is obviously the future of calling (and the future of calling, of course).
I hear your concerns! Will unsuspecting spies crush under the heels of their boots? It’s a tragedy, but the SIM cards are gone: over the last two decades they’ve been getting smaller and smaller and it’s finally time to disappear and join the great computer junkyard on floppy disks, SCSI connectors and dot-matrix printers. The sky