When people say products Ive designed after Jobs are form over function, they carry an implication that form has become the focus of the said product over actually building one that is nice to use while also looks nice. A.k.a, the balance, or “compromise” as You call it, is lost.
Yes. You can buy individual seats. Only for the pro max though. They’ll be 10000 USD each. Plus 1000 for the mount. They cannot be added or removed later so you have to do it when you order it.Thicker Vapor...
...probably with some useful car port resurrections.
And maybe instead of having to try to sit on a single, flat plank of aluminum, perhaps there will be car seats now?
This is the perfect example of a technological company taken over by business administratos who dont feel real passion for the company or the products. Tim is exactly that. Sad to watch.
While I kind of agree what you described, remember, Johnny Ive‘s early products designed with Steve Jobs was also in an era where striking and radical design was never touched or heard by industry and everyone more or less just copy paste the traditional beige color computer case with some variations, or follow a series of “tried and true” design philosophies because “if it ain’t break, don’t fix it” and “this design works. Let’s don’t deviate too much”, unlike today, where I think partially thanks to Apple’s design, the proliferation of a internet, new generation being less bound by the 1980s, and world being more globalised than ever, among other factors, modern companies are willing to pay the design risk tax and try out brand new things as bland design will not stand out anymore.
Maybe. Bean counter can create massive profits and bring company to a brand new height financially, but a leader who cannot see over the money would not really have the vision for the future.
This caught my eye as well (as did the anecdote about designers leaving Apple for Ive's company.)
I worked for GM as Product Trainer, Yup bean counters (AKA brand managers, that came from Nabisco) also the CEO of GM at the time Rick Wagoner who was from the GM financing branch, not from the manufacturing side, didn't care about the product was only interested in growing GM financial for mortgages, property development. He forgot about the core business, auto manufacturing.
If that's true then the design is even worse that I thought.
I never truly understood this issue. Once in few months I charge the mouse, I do it when I am not using it and I don't care if it upside-down or vice versa! Not sure why people moan so much about this. I guess it is on people's nature to find reasons to complain.
Again, that’s not saying he designed the keyboard’s intricacies.Industrial Design
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As described by the Industrial Designers Society of America, "Industrial Design (ID) is the professional service of creating and developing concepts and specifications that optimize the function, value and appearance of products and systems for the mutual benefit of both user and manufacturer.
The butterfly keyboard was expensive to manufacture due to low yields. It was terrible for users in terms of ergonomics due to 1mm key travel.
The only thing Jony Ive tried to optimize was thinness and portless-ness.
