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Apple Design Chief Jony Ive Retaking Direct Control of Design Team [Updated]
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It's interesting hearing the various opinions on Apple park.... outside of Macs , iPhones etc , Ives thinks he is an amazing designer .... just have Not seen proof of this : to this date I still curse how badly the ATV remote is designed, one of many examples of poor design where form over function is taking over .
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I wish . Such a poor decision to let him go.
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I wish . Such a poor decision to let him go.
I don’t think Android will adopt FaceID as it is. Samsung will stick to improving its iris scanner and research an under the display scanner while you will have those me too face unlocks which aren’t even remotely secure.
Hey I think that was someone else’s quote. Could be wrong but I don’t remember saying it. It’s possible to do by mistake when editing.
Get rid of the protruding cameras, notch and antenna lines, Mr Ive.
Use glass ceramics.
Thank you.
Use glass ceramics.
Thank you.
Probably the best comment so far loliPhones have been getting thicker, he didn’t have much choice
I know right. The M Edition 60 is infinitely sexier than that garbage. Likewise pretty much every M ever made.
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No matter what Samsung implements it still won't be as good as apples solution. Even Kuo says apple has a two-year lead and if he is the gospel on leaks to some, he should be the gospel on other items as well. Right?
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Well your opinion. But seems he will now be more entrenched than ever in design decisions. BTW Ives doesn't think he an amazing designer. Tim Cook, mgmt and the board thinks he is. Otherwise he would be out of a job.
(His Leica M fetched $1.8M. Ok, you might not be a fan of that design, but someone was)
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Airpods are a perfect example of Apple at its best. Take something already in the marketplace and make it more elegant and usable. They disappear in the experience.
Those are pretty bad bugs. I seem to remember hearing about an OS X version where you could basically keep hitting keys and cause the login screen to crash to log in to that account. There was also the time when Snow Leopard decides to delete some people’s user data. How about that time when iOS 6 killed the ability to update over the air? Or when iOS 6 wrecked WiFi? Or when iOS 5 broke SIM cards? Some were minor, but some basically stopped you from using your device.
Apple software has always been buggy as hell, we just pay attention to it more nowadays.
I don’t think Apple changed so much software and pushed for a CSS change just to quickly remove the notch. It doesn’t make sense.
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Jony Ive isn’t known for making phones thicker, which is how you get rid of the camera bump. Either that, or you get a worse camera.
There's too much bulk around the camera. The glass could be made thinner so could the housing. It's possible to go thin and remove the camera bump.
Last time this happened we spent a year trying to read a low contrast, 1px wide, neon candyapple text adventure floating in white space, like trying to read a faded atlas while being blasted in the face with a flashlight app.
I doubt it’s that simple. What other phones have a camera as good as the iPhone, is as thin as one, and doesn’t have a camera bump? Some companies are hiding it these days with a thicker device. That’s how Samsung is doing it.
It's a lot of things, but streamlined is not one of them.
The iPhone, the iPad, the magic mouse, the magic keyboard, the magic trackpad and even the watch use the same charging concept, so no, it's not smart because it's incompatible with the charging method of all the other devices.
I don't get Your point here - you cannot produce apps on the iPhone and iPad, so you need the niche machines, different tools do different jobs.
Yeah, because it's not like Apple get's anything done when there is friction because of people in top management.
And judging by the current products and their quirkiness and outright bad design decisions, maybe a mass defection of epic proportions are what we need - the ones that currently steer the ship seems to be really bad at it.
Nope, he was a true visionary when there was someone like Jobs to focus him and reign in the stupidity. Without that, he is just an average dreamer that does not care how he screws up functionality to get to slim and sleek. All you need to do is look at the Apple campus. Great to look at, but it will suck to do serious work in. Over the next few years Apple will spend a lot of money, that will never be admitted to, to get back the productivity they have lost.
funny -- that's how Steve operated. Friction is necessary sometimes.
All the new development tools are developed for Linux. ~10 years ago, Apple switched from using Macs in their data centers to linux. I think the hand writing is on the wall and has been on the wall for some time.
Apple is going to do the same stupid thing HP did, that is get rid of the core product that made them in search of riches with mass consumer devices. In HP's world that was to abandoned test equipment, with Apple it is to abandon computers.
The problem with this strategy is that mass consumer devices will and are becoming commodities. Commodities compete on price. Apple has no clue how to compete on price. They think they are Apple and people will buy Apple no matter the price. No one at Apple sees the brick wall they are headed for. Will they hit it next year? Nope, but that does not mean that the wall is not out there.
Destroying Apple? You mean with all those customers opening their wallets to buy Apple products, making what will likely be another record-setting revenue quarter?
But then Ive's masterpiece wouldn't be perfect!
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If Apple design wasn't run by overpaid fools then the iMac would be thicker, all the ports would be on the side, and performance wouldn't be throttled by inadequate cooling.
Maybe he finally recognize that an anthracite colored MacPro with a silver keyboard with matte white keys and a silver mouse with white glossy surface and a black cheap plastic LG monitor is not the same design piece if offices than the old G4 or MacPro with all aluminium accessories and a 30" original alu display. Or the thin iMac and a thick old external Apple monitor with non-fit monitor leg and high, etc. Every bull*** like the apple watch and iPad mini is available in all colors, just the keyboard and mouse not. For me a rich company like Apple cannot say that manufacturing external displays is not good business, Apple before had a good design also, they must to manufacture 30" or 32" top quality Apple branded display too, it is like when you buy a Porsche with a third party Mitsubishi seats, because it is not a good business for Porsche to manufacture seats... In days when you can buy a computer for 400$, when you buy a MacPro with everything for 10.000$, they must to provide a stunning design with every accessories i think.
Plenty of large companies can walk and chew gum at the same time. Serving the pro market is not only profitable but also gives an great ROI in regards to reputation. Scorning the pro market will one day come back to bite Apple.
Another point: Apple's secret weapon that cannot be copied by anyone else is integration. iOS and macOS sync together beautifully, so when a pro shop uses Macs that translates into iPhone and iPad sales to all those who work in that shop. Pro sales are a force multiplier and it is beyond stupid for Apple to surrender the pro market just because margins aren't as obscene as with their precious iPhones.
Maybe you don't use the SD slot, but countless photographers, video graphers, audio engineers use it daily.
People also use the SD slot to cheaply expand the storage on their machine or use permanently installed SD for backups via TimeMachine. A dongle hanging off your machine is not an equivalent replacement. Besides, who wants to carry around a bag of dongles to make their machine work?