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Apple Design Chief Jony Ive Talks iPad Pro Design in New Interview

DDustiNN said:
Not sure about the new sharp edges. I really liked the rounded edges of the last iPad. It’s easily the most comfortable iPad design to hold. It just feels perfect in your hands.

But more importantly... I just can’t believe they added a camera bump. Especially on an iPad Pro, where you’re more likely to be working on a flat surface with the Pencil. Now you’ll constantly have that annoying “wobble” that the iPhones have. Such a terrible idea.
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John Gruber was really talking up these new iPads on his latest podcast. I think he said he hopes this design comes to iPhone. I think the product is large enough that the camera hump won’t cause wobble at least that’s what I’ve read from people who’ve seen them hands on.
 
ZipZap said:
Looks like he designed away the use of most cases...if you want to use the pencil. Ive is nothing special.
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You're ignoring that case makers can actually design around the pencil attachment. I guess this is why you're not a designer, only a critic, because you can't see past how cases were made in the past?

And I'm sure the magnets are strong enough to pass through thin plastic where they need to.
 
StellarVixen said:
"Ive said when changing a well-known and loved product like the iPad, there's a need to not "fall into the trap of just making things different." It's important when changing things not to "make it different, but make it better."

So, this includes removing the 3.5 mm audio jack? You people have lost it...
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I haven't used wired headphones in probably 2 years. There are so many cheap bluetooth earphones available that most people can afford them now. Also if someones buying a 1000 dollar tablet, chances are they can too. For those who have their favorite pair of headphones, they offer a dongle solution.
 
coolfactor said:
I wish Apple would go private. These investors don't care about the company they are invested in, only the money they can make. For the stock to crash *after* another record-breaking quarter is just an example of how disconnected they are from the long-game that Apple is playing with their product roadmap. Continual evolution of perfection, year after year. I fail to see how that can be seen as anything but being responsible with investors' money.
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I call the mini crash a good buying opportunity. :) Yeah, the massive selling due to record profits always kills me. I just keep buying. I hope they don't privatize, just because their dividends continue going up 10% or more every year. I'm counting on them for my nest egg. But...always risks. Such is life.
 
deeddawg said:
Can't speak for others, but I can't remember the last time I used wired headphones. On a phone or anything else. Do people still do that?
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Your BT connection not only hampers your sound fidelity, but more. Get a dongle.
 
DevNull0 said:
If you look at the picture of the iPad on this story, the curve in the corner of the display is a little too sharp to look "concentric with and sympathetic to" the actual enclosure.
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*sigh* It's called CONCENTRIC CIRCLES and works just fine. Can't believe I had to waste an Instagram post to point out the obvious. ;)

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpr72v2DIc4/
 
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the ability to use 100% recycled components might be the biggest deal in terms of forward-looking innovations. If we can figure out a way to manufacture more products in a closed or at least semi-closed loop system via trade-ins or recycling, it will make for a much more sustainable future (not to mention this will be critical for any type of colonization projects like are currently envisioned for Mars).
 
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MacRumors said:
The simple flat edge of the iPad Pro is also an achievement, something Apple was able to implement when the engineering teams were able to pare down the thickness of the iPad Pro. Ive says Apple couldn't have attempted a straightforward edge detail like that when the products weren't as thin.
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Er... The original iPad had pretty flat edges. If its super-thin with flat edges, what's it like to pick up from a table?

deeddawg said:
Can't speak for others, but I can't remember the last time I used wired headphones. On a phone or anything else. Do people still do that?
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Hook up your bluetooth cans and then launch Garageband - a handy little pop-up box will explain the problem to you in large, friendly letters.

Clue: bluetooth headphones have a half-second or so lag - doesn't matter if you're listening to music and if you watch a video the picture gets automatically delayed to keep the sound in sync but for anything that makes noises in response to user actions, wireless headphones are as much use as a chocolate teapot.

Sure - you can add an external interface, but that defeats part of the beauty of having a hand-held tablet.
 
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Bacillus said:
Your BT connection not only hampers your sound fidelity, but more. Get a dongle.
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Why would I bother with that? I've never really been able to tell the difference the times I've tried to?

Most of the time I use headphones/headset is for phone calls or conference calls or podcasts. Or the occasional tv-show or something. I do listen to some music, but not a whole lot -- and that's usually when driving (use car speakers) or in my home office (external speaker via Airplay)

There's a benefit sometimes to NOT having "golden ears"
 
MacRumors said:
If you look at the iPad Pro, though, you can see how the radius, the curve in the corner of the display, is concentric with and sympathetic to the actual enclosure. You feel it's authentic, and you have the sense that it's not an assembly of a whole bag of different components: it's a single, clear product.
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What? I actually have hard time even looking at this iPad because of the different corner radiuses. What he's saying would be true if the screen and display corner radiuses were the same like with the iPhone, but in case of those iPads it looks cheap, even worse than square ones.

And the bezelz aren't even that thin, there are tablets with bezels like those, like iPhones had the bigges of everyone, how could he allow this for that long, most android phones never had bezels that thic like iPhones upt to 8 have, also they mentioned at the event how air bezel are thin and they also not that thin, there is so much laptops and even all in ones nearly bezel less. Ive is not fresh anymore.
 
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lulla01 said:
I haven't used wired headphones in probably 2 years. There are so many cheap bluetooth earphones available that most people can afford them now. Also if someones buying a 1000 dollar tablet, chances are they can too. For those who have their favorite pair of headphones, they offer a dongle solution.
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Except...you could still use BT headphones when there WAS a headphone jack. It's got nothing to do with affordability, I can afford any old device I want. It's got to do with choices being removed without sufficient rationale.

I don't want one more thing to charge, I don't want it to stop working right when I need it due to battery life, and the bulk of my time wearing earbuds/headset is in an aircraft, where transmitting devices a) don't have the battery life to last 14 hours generally, and b) aren't technically permitted anyway.

So yeah, losing the jack to a dongle or another device needing its batteries managed is a step backwards, and a totally gratuitous decision. Not all of us spend our days traipsing from Starbucks to spin class, where AirPods would probably work just fine.

Sorry for the thread drift.
 
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In the midst of all the making fun of Jony posts, I'll say I really like listening to him talk and reading his interviews. It sheds some light into the heartbeat of Apple design and how products come to be. Always fascinating. :p
 
Theres too much high fiveing and back slapping going on these days. Dr Ian Malcolm said it best...

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Why does Ive think it's acceptable for the camera to protrude? Can't lay an iDevice flat on a surface, it's tilted at a wobbly angle. Have to put a case on it to make it lie flat.
 
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ctdonath said:
Why does Ive think it's acceptable for the camera to protrude? Can't lay an iDevice flat on a surface, it's tilted at a wobbly angle. Have to put a case on it to make it lie flat.
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iPads are big enough where they don’t wobble though.
 
Return Zero said:
Rounded screens were too problematic until recently, and physical devices with square corners are not very comfortable to handle. Imagine your iPhone with square corners when you're trying to hold it one-handed. You'd have a narrow point digging into your palm... no thanks.
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Power Mac G5 / Classic Mac Pro handles :D:D

"There's not supposed to be any right angles on this building!"

 
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mnewton91 said:
I have a close friend who is a DJ. He uses iPad Pro, but has an external interface & hasn’t used 3.5mm in years.
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Yea I was waiting to see something like this. People really into audio apps and use casss don’t even utilize the 3.5 jack. So an external interface is basically a hub of some sort that would then output to whatever you want, right? I don’t know anything about this stuff.
 
The bezel on this iPad Pro is wider than the actual thickness of the iPad itself.

I will try to measure this next week.
 
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