![]() Similarly, there was a conscious decision made not to allow notifications to break into the Touch Bar in any way: you can't have pop-up alerts on there, like a ticker tape machine, and nor can you interact with shortcuts in macOS notifications like delete or reply. Unfortunately, while Apple has APIs for standalone software, apps that live in the browser don't get to play. That's fine if you live in standalone software, but plenty of our time is now spent in web apps. All the same, right now for every moment of pleasure at plugging in a single 5K Thunderbolt 3 display and also having your MacBook Pro powered and hooked up to a row of extra ports for data, there's the sting of "hang on, where's my Type-A connector gone?" frustration. I suspect Apple has held off from addressing that situation because it expects it to go away in time. We're yet to see a compelling USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 hub from the Cupertino firm either I've been carrying Huawei's, but reports from the Wild West of third-party options, many of which prove to be compromised in any number of ways, show the confusion Apple has dumped its users into. The fact that you're paying upwards of $1.5k for a notebook and don't get a USB Type-A to Type-C adapter in the box seems miserly: sure, Apple sells them now for nine bucks apiece, but it's galling nonetheless. Had Apple just switched the Thunderbolt 2 ports on the old MacBook Pro to Thunderbolt 3, and left the legacy connectors in place, we'd be complaining that the new standard was slow to gain traction.Īll the same, Apple could've handled this transition better. This commitment to the USB Type-C connector is exactly what the port needs for peripheral and accessory makers to take the transition seriously: I think we'll see more USB-C devices, at a faster rate, as a result. ![]() Personally, when it comes to adopting Thunderbolt 3 wholeheartedly I suspect Apple would've been damned if they did and damned if they didn't. Even the previous MacBook Pro with Retina display, which many are looking at with renewed fondness now, demanded I carry a Thunderbolt 2 ethernet adapter just-in-case. Would it be great to be able to plug everything in natively? Sure, though I think I thought something along the same lines back when floppy drives and CD drives and DVD drives rose and fell in popularity. Unplugged, the latter can be used to read USB drives, or connect to scanners or non-wireless printers. Most commonly, that's because I need to import photos and videos from the SD card in my camera I have a small card reader and Apple's USB Type-A to Type-C dongle in my bag. Along the way I've found some of the frustrations I expected to be less significant than I thought they'd be, and vice-versa.Īdapters have become a part of my daily life. I mention that to make it clear that I've been living the USB-C-only lifestyle for some time now, and with just a single port. I'm a 12-inch MacBook user and have been since the first-gen model in early 2015.
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