This is the final "fuck you and fuck off" to professional developers from Apple. I expect the next generation of MBPros (and MBAirs) that are rumored for later this year to continue in this direction giving us developers the middle finger and likely it will continue into next year and beyond. Apple doesn't care. The laptops look great from the outside and most people don't know any better. Everything that makes this machine a laptop is indeed garbage (keyboard, touchpad, screen, cooling) as far as computing is concerned, but when you're a fashion company, computing is almost an afterthought. On the bright side, I'm looking forward to "smart" socks and underwear coming out in a few years from Apple. /s
Rumors are a new mbpro is coming this fall. Or next year. So I guess about four to five years or so. It makes sense that they ditched the regular mb because it was garbage. You may be right, and I hope you are, but I doubt it. If they were correcting course why not ditch the touch bar for function keys instead of the other way around? They have both. Their software choices also point to the same thing with sip, their slow phasing out of apps not signed by Apple, and the increasing difficulty in installing and running any other OSes on their hardware, especially new hardware. Even if the new mbpro comes out this year or next with a new redesign, I wouldn't hold my breath that it would be better. It's likely to be worse given so many years of bad design and ideas not only in laptops but in all their products. They are literally making computers for computer illiterate people these days. That's great for the masses who can afford them. It's great for a phone that has very limited functionality and use cases as smart phones tend to have. It's terrible for an alleged general purpose computer.
> If they were correcting course why not ditch the touch bar for function keys instead of the other way around?
I don't know, but there are many reasons why this could be. Maybe they want to get rid of their touch bar stocks, or maybe not enough people are buying the MB and the MBP Escape to justify the cost of a supply line.
Prev gen mbp was 2013-2015. The one before that was 2009-2012. This one is 2016-2019. I'd say we are due for a redesign any day now. Hopefully we drop this butterfly experiment and return to good old fashioned scissor keys and ports for pros.
