

Can you live with this new balance, or has Apple just found a different way to alienate actual professionals? Read on to find everything you'll need to decide that for yourself. Apple has listened to its users but is also still doing many things its own way. Nearly everything major that changed with the 2016 redesign and annoyed people has been reversed – but there are still a few caveats and one big new compromise that has already caused fresh controversy. The company will even soon begin allowing users to repair some of their own hardware problems at home.Įven so, the new 2021 MacBook Pro comes as a surprisingly comprehensive reversal almost an apology to users of the past few generations. However, there have been rare occasions when the behemoth has had to accept that it went wrong – the buttonless third-gen iPod shuffle was replaced with its own predecessor, the shallow “butterfly” MacBook keyboard has been consigned to history, and more recently Safari's drastic beta redesign has been shelved. From the original iMac which had no floppy drive and the iPhone 7 ditching the headphone jack, to the 2012 MacBooks with only USB Type-C, Apple's quest for minimalism has often upset its customers. Apple is no stranger to wiping the slate clean ditching its own standards and designs even at the height of their popularity because it thinks something better is around the corner.
