“Radical redesign” = returning to everything that was right/good to begin with? Interesting.
“If you’ll notice, our new manned explorer and ISS transport vehicle looks just like the Mercury capsule.” - NASA
“For our 2021 lineup, we’ve made everything a Telecaster.” - Femder
“All titties, all the time..” - Cinemax
All four of those things existed once already on these models, and two of them - MagSafe and useful ports - actually mattered and made for a nicer, more capable and worth-all-the-money purchase.
I don’t think that touchbar ever really hit in the way they probably expected. It almost seemed like unasked-for showing off.
Some of this that seems like a shot at Jony’s “minimalist design over all else” obsession/leanings.
“Alright guys, enough of this shit...make these things work well out of the box without a mandatory dongle-buying spree...”.
If this is true...awesome. The Air can be the minimalist, bare-bones “notebook for the rest of us”, but maybe something with the word “pro”’ in its name should be a bit more versatile and full-featured? Maybe, as it turns out, ultra-stark minimalism isn’t a “pro” feature request?