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Apple Design Chief Jony Ive Talks iPad Pro Design in New Interview
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The cheap bluetooth headphones sound like crap. And even cheap for bluetooth headphones still means $40. $40 wired headphones these days have a pretty amazing sound, blowing $200 bluetooth headphones out of the water.
And you still can't get away from the fact that you've got another device to charge, another charing cable to carry around (every BT headphone I've ever seen uses microusb to charge, do lightening ones even exist?). There's been countless times I've had to stop listening when my headphones have died. Bluetooth doesn't work that smoothly; when the headphones are paired and I try to use the phone normally the headphones constantly disconnect and connect redirecting my phone calls to the headphones.
Bluetooth headphones have a non-replacable battery meaning they're garbage in 3 years.
**and the real kicker** there's no reason you couldn't use bluetooth headphones on a phone with a 3.5mm plug since you seem to prefer bluetooth. There is zero reason to remove the headphone jack other than to screw over the consumer. No matter how much you want to argue the merits of bluetooth, you can't get away from that simple fact.
Specifically, Ive pointed out the display of the device, which uses a subpixel anti-aliasing technique to produce rounded corners that flow into the sides of the screen smoothly and without distortion.
I remember the days when the corners of macOS finder (not just the floating windows) were rounded. Jony Ive...
If Jony know how to design anything, it's rectangles. Good work if you can get it.
I understand some people disliking his style of speaking. For one I enjoy it.
Despite that there is some BS at times, I like the way he uses words and create sentences making it very poetic interpretation of the work he and Apple creates. I'm a designer so I appreciate it despite the fact again that sometimes I think they can go a bit far.
Gag. What a dam* blowhard. Well into the unnecessarily overthinking jumping the sharkitude stage.
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This is the type of thinking that dangerously brings out the worst: change for the sake of change, just to keep moving.
Love the man and many of his creations. But boy, does he sound like a walking parody of himself. If you presented his speech as an SNL skit delivered by a comedian, the audience would be rolling on the floor with laughter without realizing that this is really what he says.
That's actually a legit concern. This thing is so thin that a mild "drop" on the desk may bend it up. Imagine it inside a carrying sleeve and it slips from your fingers and hits the floor... I'm not confident.
This race for thin that Ive is going for is getting ridiculous.
I worry about it too, every time they make it thinner, unnecessarily so.
The iMac Pro was the update in that line. They have to sell enough of it before introducing the cheaper update for the iMac Basic. Otherwise, it is bad business practice - you and I be damned. #realworldapple.
Pretentious gibberish as usual from Jony
“The screen is sympathetic to the design”
If only Apple were sympathetic to their customers’ wallets to the same degree
“The screen is sympathetic to the design”
If only Apple were sympathetic to their customers’ wallets to the same degree
Wording aside it looks fine to me. Not quite as rounded as the iPhone but I’m sure there’s a reason
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comm...ipad_pro_are_perfect/?st=JNWYZUWK&sh=3c552972
The reason is, they opted NOT to do the notch on the iPad Pro. Hence, smaller bezel achievable on the iPhone XS.
"When you put it on a flat surface, like a desk, it will wobble about even though it is just a flat slab of aluminium. We managed to do that by making the rear-facing camera stick out more, with a small buttress around it that we carefully included in the chassis."
-- Funny we didn't hear him saying that, or anything remotely related.
-- Funny we didn't hear him saying that, or anything remotely related.
Jonny Ive's biggest fan is Jonny Ive.
Think I've found my avatar.
I’m just bummed it doesn’t have a notch. I thought it was the future.
Think I've found my avatar.
Guys, they aren’t doing anything special with the screen. The corners are still square they’re just blacking out the pixels on iPad and iPhone XR
I absolutely do think so (just opinion, of course). More and more, Apple devices are clearly meant to be used with nothing plugged in. The USB-C port is designed for charging and special use cases. Plugging something in is the exception, not the rule. Headphones would have to remain plugged in during an entire user session (say, for something like editing or watching video).
The camera and logo are on the opposite side, so that doesn't really matter to the user (unless you are actively using the rear camera, perhaps). The buttons are nearly flush with the case, so they don't have a huge effect on user experience either. Now, a headphone cable sticking an inch out, dangling down to your waist and then back up to your head really does make all the difference. Anyone who has made the switch to wireless headphones would probably agree.
I understand you could just be making the point that a headphone jack with nothing plugged in doesn't affect the orientation, and I would agree. But the fact is, if the headphone jack is there, many more people are going to end up using it, and Apple simply doesn't want that to happen. As evidenced with the iPhone 7, they see themselves as industry leaders in getting people to switch over to wireless audio (of course they primarily hope to make money off this decision in the long run, but then again, they are a public company).
I hope they go back to the flat edge for next year's iPhone X variant. It looks and feels so much better than round edges, which are slippery and add unnecessary bulk to the sides.
That double-wobble was the final test for the notch.
If something that ugly would be accepted on the market, anything would.
Like takin’ that mouse from behind, the Pencil v1. - rest of Hall of Shame’s inventory.
"Blacking out pixels" is far easier said then done. It's not like you can just cover up the corners with a curved piece of plastic and expect it to look good.
There could be a physical limitation at play here...you need at least some focal distance, I *think*.
Jony can wish for a 1mm thick device but real world physics are only so manipulable....
Yours is a good point. While BT still can’t transmit a bit rate necessary for hifi music file types, many people have hearing damage from exposure, and loss from aging. They can’t experience and appreciate the live effect of a faithful recording.
Even with healthy ears, a jack and capable headphones aren’t sufficient by themselves to deliver hifi. The codec and DAC have to be capable. The DACs in phones are understandably unimpressive. Their abilities are sufficient for the highly compressed audio codecs that allow streaming or conserve storage space.
The fact is, smartphones are a compromise in everything they do. We excuse them because of their convienence. If you expect more, you have to consider solutions that specialize.
