Wondering if there is a lot more negative feedback to Liquid Glass and the team is being “reeled in”
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Apple's Design Team Will Soon Report Directly to Tim Cook
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Probably the worst news I've read this week decade. I'm sure great things will come from this!
It also helped when he was part of a duo with Jobs, who kept pushing back, saying "no" at the right times. Think of a car that's perfect except the steering steers towards one side - a driver can hold the wheel to keep it going straight, but without that input, the car just runs into a ditch or grinds along the guardrails.
Sorry, probably read too many F1 comments just before this.
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Well, I doubt their interface design could get any worse so maybe something positive will come of this
I wonder if the COO is leaving because of the Liquid Glass disaster
I wonder if the COO is leaving because of the Liquid Glass disaster
That’s a sign of failing leadership
It's honestly refreshing to me that this is getting spoken about more openly and widely ... finally.
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people hate Microsoft Teams. I’ve never used it but it has such a bad reputation online I’ve taken note
Oh god, that explains everything. No wonder the UI has been so bad. They made some weird, awkward decisions before that time (like cluttering the toolbar, title bar, and window buttons and forcing the green button to work as go full screen) and the Big Sur redesign brought some real issues (their obsession with removing and hiding buttons and features) but they’ve truly felt monstrously inept and it just seems to get worse every year
A team needs a leader. A UI team needs a leader with good taste and a good eye. And that leader needs to be focused on what benefits customers.
Most importantly, a team needs someone to provide direction and say no to insanely bad ideas like Liquid Glass
Liquid Glass never would’ve passed the drawing board with a competent team. We’ve already learned all the lessons about legibility and readability in translucent designs with Aqua. The fact that they did it all over again shows an institutional failure to learn from the past as well as a failure to consider actual users and accessibility
No, it isn't
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Agreed.No, it isn't
Why Microsoft's enshittification of Xbox, Surface, and even Windows itself — are all by design
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just when you thought it couldn't get any more boring...
TBF it's genius, a sure fire way of selling more cases, obviously got Tim's mitts all over it! 😂
What can go wrong? putting the CFO to look after the design team? hahaha A guy that only cares about numbers and making more money... that will be the end of Apple as we know it.
Steve was a CEO with a mindset of a designer and creator, that why apple was always inovating year to year.... Tim is a financial guy, that only cares about numbers.
Steve was a CEO with a mindset of a designer and creator, that why apple was always inovating year to year.... Tim is a financial guy, that only cares about numbers.
At least he had quality work to show for the “rockstar,” unlike the guitar wielding, parachute jumping, and fantasy F1 car driving Federighi. Not everyone was pleased with Scott’s departure, especially those that worked closely with him, as was mentioned in a number of Apple centric podcasts at the time. He was the most Steve like in the company. That is exactly what this clown show that is modern Apple needs. Ives was more abusive when given the reigns. It didn’t matter what department you were in, if he didn’t like it, it didn’t pass. He was out of his league touching software, but just don’t tell him that.
I actually disagree with this. Tim Cook was once asked by a larger shareholder at one of their quarterly meetings about short term profits and Tim said that if he wasn’t investing in Apple for the long game to sell his stocks and get out since Apple wasn’t the stock for him. That’s not pandering to stockholders.
Now, do I think he’s the right person to lead the design team? Hell no. I’m just hopeful this is a stop gap.
I respect your opinion. Problem is, Apple doesn't have a long-term pipeline to actually boost the stock. Hasn't Apple been around the same price for two and a half years? Shows you how little excitement is going on.
Even first year of design school would not allow this to pass. Basic legibility is a must in any project involving text.
I think one of the bullet points in the design spec said "all text and icons must be legible", and someone made a totally silly transcription error and it came up "... must be illegible."
It's like camouflage - "look, we can make all the text fade into the background patterns! We'll totally nail that illegibility goal!"
Well, he does play with the OTHER team, not that there is anything wrong with that
What else can they do with the look/feel of the hardware? What about that i4 15-anniversary leica edition? I would pre-pay for one as long as is not outrageous$$$.
why would they need one? they just keep recycling the same design year after year. An intern could do that. Maybe change it a bit by growing that tumor so it's not so obvious
Both of these statements are beyond absurd. MS hasn’t been far ahead of anything since W95. To say they are crushing it is hilarious because they are taking heavy losses in gaming, they are irrelevant in console sales, and adding copilot to notes or windows search hasn’t revolutionized their OS, as shocking as it may be. Not that it matters because MS bread and butter is licensing anyway. So long as they control the space, the product itself can rot. And does. Look at Skype.
From Zune to Xbox to phones to just about anything they touch, it all goes to ****. How a company like that can be so far ahead is a mystery to be sure.
I also love AI boys talk like they even know what the hell it is or what value it can actually bring.
This is some raw doggin rage bait my man. Touché!