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Apple Launches Screen Replacement Program for Aluminum Series 2 and Series 3 Apple Watch Models
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His main point is good design involves being fit for purpose. That should not be controversial.
You think he alone designed the butterfly keyboard? As far as I know his name isn’t on any butterfly keyboard patents. The one below for example has 5 investors listed and they all look to be hardware engineers.
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph...96".PGNR.&OS=DN/20180137996&RS=DN/20180137996
You now that there is tens of millions of this watches? If even 50.000 cracket it's still rare.
they would only do this if it was a true low number (ppm) - Remember how they denied the existence of a major flaw with the butterfly keyboard for three generations...
if it’s still under warranty it should be covered as a “hairline crack”. But will probably not qualify for this program.
I just wished Apple had a more affordable way to replace a cracked screen due an accident. The last I checked it was almost as expensive as buying a new watch, especially for series 3. It doesn’t make sense for a company that claim is environmentally conscious.
3rd party solutions aren’t cheap either.
3rd party solutions aren’t cheap either.
Apple goes overboard on form over function. All one needs to do is look at the great Windows hardware out there. No, not all it is great, some of it is.
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Apple stuff just feels expensively fragile. Affordability does not exist in the Apple vocabulary. (We can't really cite the affordable iPads with lousy wifi.)
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Ive was paid the "big bucks", right? He was chief over all design. You mean he gets paid without responsibility, just taking the credit? But I see your point.
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I got tired of getting screwed by Apple and made a change in my buying. 3 failed keyboards on 3 laptops and 2 failed screens helped push that along. Oh, and battery swelling that destroyed a laptop and phone swelling on my last phone, destroyed it, and my wife's iPhone is flaking out and our iPads have the crappy wifi problem that's been going on forever...that covers most of it.
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The supposed dichotomy between form and function is pushed by design wannabes with an agenda, most notably the Bauhaus. Originally it was a reaction against "frilly" stuff that added nothing to the actual product, like gargoyles on buildings or swirly decor on furniture.
But when people use it today it's for a different reason. Do you want to live somewhere surrounded by brutalist architecture? Do you want your laptop stripped of it's shell and with no regard for aesthetics? A FFF laptop is a chunck of metal that weights 10 pounds. That's what it would be like if it was honest to its materials, which is the ugly corollary to FFF. Is that the world you want?
Apple users say "heck no."
Currently have the 2 and the quarter crack is what I have going on.
Rep just stated in their release, all series 2 require a face to face examination before approval.
Reason being...get upgraded to a series 3.
Thank you Lord!!
Rep just stated in their release, all series 2 require a face to face examination before approval.
Reason being...get upgraded to a series 3.
Thank you Lord!!
He was commenting about form over function, not advocating for no form whatsoever.
The issue is the importance of form seems to have far outstripped function in Jony Ives old Apple. Hopefully thats changing a bit.
But you went ahead and set up a straw man to argue against anyways. Bravo!
I think computers(and tvs/phones/watches/etc.) are all at a point of disposability. Nothing is repairable these days. Not just Apple.
Not sure to be honest, there You Tube guy Jerry Rugs Everything shows how proper sapphire doesn’t scratch like Apple’s does.
But it’s still pretty scratch resistant I think.
No absolutely not. I’m just saying there’s a lot more than one person responsible for the design and engineering of products.
Yea mine had the exact same crack and literally happened as i was just sitting at a desk doing absolutely nothing. It was like a month past warranty (no apple care)
Apple refused to fix it, saying it was my fault due to “impact” damage. The manager at the store claimed he had “never” seen it before.
I held my ground and kept going up the chain and finally got them to do a “one-time exception”.
Took over a month of fighting, which is absolutely ridiculous. Kind of been sour on apple ever since. Used to buy pretty much everything they released. Their latest price increases on top of this didn’t help, either.
But yea, basically, “rare” my ass.
No matter what you do, mistakes will always exist. A good designer just minimizes the total amount of mistakes. And it also depends on the materials and process in the manufacturing.
To be fair, a much larger number of his designs became industry standards both for durability and aesthetics. The stainless steel iPods and Macbook unibody comes to mind. Yes, there are going to be flaws when you're trying to push the envelope for what can be manufactured, but usually these designs end up maturing within a few generations.
This exact crack happened to me earlier this month. I just got back from a walk and it was 95F outside then I look at my watch and the parameter was shimmering from the crack. Apple claimed it was some type of negligence on my part, which really got my goat, and wanted $289 to fix something that was their fault. As soon as I saw this article I booked an appointment and let them hear my displeasure.
I hope there will be refunds for prior paid repairs.
My Series 3 Watch did this at the beginning of this year, I took it into the Apple Store and they told me since the battery hadn’t swollen I would have to pay for a replacement... So I took the broken watch home and chucked it in a box then went online and bought a Series 4 on eBay.
Luckily I still have it and I just spoke to Support who are sending me a box out to replace it for free!
Luckily I still have it and I just spoke to Support who are sending me a box out to replace it for free!