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John Gruber

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The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

This straight up looks like someone photoshopped like a juju tablet into this with cut off corners.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

And then there's a big, wide, long stripe of screen up at the top that I think is like pretending to be a heads up display, but seems to just show you the weather.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

And then you're right.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

It's showing what music is playing three times.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

You can see what music is playing three different places.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

But then it looks like a paddle shifter, but it's like a translucent paddle.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

No, this is like the car of the future according to like 1954.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

I think car companies think that people in passenger seats can't reach the center screen.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

This is wild.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

Anyway, I just.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

It's also like really ugly.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

Like it would be one thing if this was like more technology than you needed, but it was all kind of, you know, put together thoughtfully.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

This literally, it looks like someone took a prototype of an Android tablet from 2012 and

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

and just like super glued it onto the dashboard of a BMW.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

Correct.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

It literally shows you the song that's playing three times.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

This is the best idea they had for what to put on these screens.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

Let's just show them the song that's playing three times.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

This is really validating my purchase of a 2018 Hyundai Ioniq that gets 50 miles to the gallon and does nothing interesting.

The Vergecast
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook's legacy

Sure can't.