Apple’s New Design Ethos: Making Gadgets Easy to Sell, Hard to Use

Apple has been living on their reputation for design for years now, rather than actually producing good designs. The #$&@^ headphone adaptors I constantly attach when I want to use my iPhone and detach when I want to use my MacBook Pro are the obvious case in point. Who really cared that the phone was ever so slightly thinner? And all the times I can't use my headphones at all because I'm in one place and the damn adapter is somewhere else. I have three adapters and it still happens.

When I finally go over to Android, it will be because of Apple's designs, not in spite of them.

Calling this a "new design ethos" ignores Apple's history. They've had their share of hard-to-use duds in the past, such as the puck mouse. And they have their share of extraordinarily well designed devices today: who would dare say that AirPods are "hard to use?"

One thing that never changes is articles like this.

The MacBook Pro's key stick issue is extremely annoying when it happens, but it's easy to remove a key to blow dust out by using a guitar pick to pry on the side nearest the screen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yZsc6JnFcQ