Apple watch would sell more if they separated it from phone.
i think they want to tie watch to phone so that they can sell more phones.
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Another Longtime Industrial Designer Leaves Apple
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i think they want to tie watch to phone so that they can sell more phones.
Well, the ugliness and lack of coherence in Apple's designs is starting to make sense.
Tim Cook needs to retire asap. Design is what made Apple love it or hate it. Just look what happened to Boeing when they prioritized profits and operations over design. The M2 MacBook Air feels cheap and has a plastic feeling compared to the older generations.
Hire Steve Balmer!
His presentation was either the best or worst thing for his message, but it wouldn't hurt for someone at Apple that high up to really, really care about developers again.
I agree but who's left? Name one visionary at any company anywhere anymore. That's why Steve was so unique, there's nobody left with (mostly correct) opinions that strong and the chutzpah to see them through.
If they can be the company that finally brings real AI to the masses in a usable form, they'll be ok. Main problem with the iPhone today is that Siri is dumb as a box of rocks. It was bad five+ years ago when the Google Assistant app made it look bad on its own platform, and the ChatGPT app today makes even that look bad and Siri look essentially useless in comparison.
If they can turn that around and take Siri from a bad joke to a real helpful AI that works as well as they pretend it does, that's the boat to be on for now.
Steve: “we should make a bigger phone”
Tim: “okey dokey”
With the amount of money Apple has, I don’t understand why they would skimp on the design team. That team has set Apple apart from the competition.
I think when people say Apple is doomed from years ago, they really were. But iPhone was too revolutionary that the momentum can just last that long.
An empire don’t fall in a day, but the trend can be noticed by some
I seriously could not understand how, a few years back, Apple thought service as a way to diversify their income.. They were just milking people who paid premium price for their devices. And if their devices is not worth it anymore, people will leave them along with the services
They definitely have a more "designed by committee" feel than they used to, although I still think for the most part they are good design.
Curious if we have enough information to construct an organizational chart of all the design roles at Apple now. They all still report to the operations chief?
There might, but if they are not the founder of the company, no one can fight that political war.
Lmao I doubt the designs still run through a committee. They are like college projects. The Human Interface Guideline was the first in the industry. And till this day, they don’t have a design system.
The camera bumps are not concentric to the curve of iPhones any more. It’s not like they are even designing anything new every year.
Depends. They may have valid candidates already in house. But as long as they have a CEO who doesn’t value design that person, whoever they are, won’t get a shot at a top tier job, let alone consideration as a potential successor.
This. Tim Cook stopped meeting with Ive very soon after taking over the company. Ive was no longer seen as a key member of the team. That’s why he left. Since then all Apple has done is iterate on the same Jobs/Ive era designs over and over and over and over again.
That’s kind of what I mean though. Steve Jobs was never anyone’s candidate. He made people believe despite himself. I know that’s a high bar. But Apple set a high bar. Maybe I’m just getting old.
Maybe I just don’t see it because I’m so close to it in time but retrospectively he and therefore Apple had a vision of the future of computing that has now come true, and I don’t think anyone really knows what to do now. Nothing good, anyway.
And yeah, considering whoever it is now has to receive Cook and/or the board’s approval, not sure who that could be.
So you're saying he would hold these people hostage and force them to keep their jobs?
I think the Apple Vision Pro is the best-looking headset on the market so I am not sure what you are saying about design.
I felt like a lot of things are so obvious and logical, but people don’t realize it. Maybe I was the odd one out lmao.
Enjoy retirement. I've been. 25+ years at one company as it drastically grows is more than enough. I'm glad I got to do it myself.
And it seems it has been relegated to history. Really sad that they literally wrote the book on how to do this right, and have been outright defying that wisdom on the very platform that it was born with.
People dreamt about what strange new products Apple can make, and they exceed imaginations. That was Apple’s peak.
Now people don’t even talk about how Vision Pro could be built differently
It’s good looking, but it didn’t have to be a bulky heavy headset. It didn’t have to be a better Quest3. It could be DIFFERENTSo you're saying he would hold these people hostage and force them to keep their jobs?