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Apple Ends Partnership With Former Design Chief Jony Ive
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Like relatives and fish - they stink when they've stuck around too long, and he isn't worth $100M. He pushed apple forward for sure, then ran right off a cliff pursing 'light and thin' at the expense of 'functional and usable'. That over-rotation gave us a lot of bad decisions that are now, thankfully, being returned to balance.
It wasn't that he's a bad designer, it's that he 1) had way to narrow a focus on light and thin, and 2) vastly too much authority. Design can hinder UX as much as enhance it, and he crossed that line many many times.
It wasn't that he's a bad designer, it's that he 1) had way to narrow a focus on light and thin, and 2) vastly too much authority. Design can hinder UX as much as enhance it, and he crossed that line many many times.
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Well, QA certainly continues to be a problem, but that's across their entire software stack. Otherwise, I think that the latest few releases have been overall incremental improvements, and ventura looks like a nice jump forward in a lot of ways.
Maybe it was the Apple Watch 18K Gold Edition. That was too much for him.
WSJ: Jony Ive Became 'Dispirited' After Apple Watch and Sometimes Failed to Show Up to Meetings
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Jony Ive: High-End Apple (AAPL) Watch Will Come With Its Own Leather, Suede Box
The priciest of Apple Watches -- the 18-karat gold Edition collection -- won't just come in any Apple packaging but will mimic five-figure luxury watch boxes. With leatheabcnews.go.com
The gold watch was a marketing ploy to build buzz and overcome the tech geek factor with influencers wearing them.
Macbook pros with touchbars and/or butterfly keyboards. Both were a direct result of his choices and priorities.
iMac's without user replaceable parts because he didn't want screws on the back (general issue, but this was the worst - spinning drives die fast).
Trash can Mac Pro
Any macbook pro with a substandard discrete GPU because the thermal management was lousy because it was too thin and didn't have enough vents
One the one hand he had a good eye.
On the other hand he is the reason I have spent all those years groping blindly behind a Mac Mini trying to plug in a USB drive, a headphone, or later on an SD card.
On the other hand he is the reason I have spent all those years groping blindly behind a Mac Mini trying to plug in a USB drive, a headphone, or later on an SD card.
A TON of Apple's success is owed to Ive's vision and design acumen.
My suspicion is that Love From’s contract with Apple was nothing more than a noncompete / non-solicitation agreement in disguise. They had to make the break look amicable and this was the way they did it.
Apple makes products that people use. Stands to reason that users are qualified critics.
That's still the only design decision I've seen that tops the terrible keyboards from 2016 is "why, why, why, why, why did you do this?!?!" in the recent past from Apple
Good riddance, in the end I'm glad the right balance of form & function has been restored at Apple design.
This is likely the best decision, but on the other hand, I can't shake the idea that Tim Cook and Jony Ive deserve each other.
That said, as customers we are innocent, and we do not deserve to have both of them coming at us.
That said, as customers we are innocent, and we do not deserve to have both of them coming at us.
Because I've been an Apple customer for more than 30 years, when most of you weren't even born. And I know by thread and by sign how much Apple owes Ive in order not to have failed, and above all I know what the quality was before 2006, and what is today, now identical to that of Microsoft with Vista.
Industrial Design
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.
You mean that they didn’t keep making the gold edition? He’s got expensive taste…Maybe it was the Apple Watch 18K Gold Edition. That was too much for him.
WSJ: Jony Ive Became 'Dispirited' After Apple Watch and Sometimes Failed to Show Up to Meetings
Shortly after Apple's announcement last week that Jony Ive was leaving the company, Bloomberg published a report that suggested his departure had...
Jony Ive: High-End Apple (AAPL) Watch Will Come With Its Own Leather, Suede Box
The priciest of Apple Watches -- the 18-karat gold Edition collection -- won't just come in any Apple packaging but will mimic five-figure luxury watch boxes. With leathe
