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Comment by dubswithus | Hacker News Reader

> They're slowly going from Ive's minimalist artistic designs back to useful computing devices and user interfaces.

Is this a subtle attack on USB-C?

It's an attack on the butterfly keyboard, removing MagSafe, removing HDMI, removing the headphone jack, reducing battery capacity, the unreadable iOS 7 UI, the trash can, etc.

Nothing "subtle" about the attack. The butterfly keyboard is a very obvious and outright failure.

This failure resulted in a support program that covered the entire output of the Apple MacBook Pro product line for half a decade.

Nothing subtle about that at all.

I wonder if we're being too quick to blame him for the Butterfly keyboard. Sure it was his design, but there were engineering issue. Was Ive powerful enough to overrule Tim Cook and everyone else and keep a faulty keyboard for that long? So far I've only seen a lot of speculation from tech websites, but maybe someone has some proper source, I might be totally wrong.

It could also be a widespread cultural issue where Apple is unable to admit fault. Sure, Apple removed the butterfly after he left, but they're still quite stubborn about not putting USB-C on iPhones, for example.

usbc is the one good thing about the ive years. everything else was a step away from usability for power users.

USB-C itself is great. Love the fact that I can plug a single cable into my MacBook for all docking purposes (charging, display, peripherals).

The annoying thing was the lack of everything else except usb-c. Especially in 2017 when it was uncommon and for devices featuring only 2 ports. „Dongle life“ was a serious step backwards.

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