I'm tired of this ****.
Tired of what? Reading the article exhausted you? Sorry to hear this. It sounds detrimental to your personal life. You can always ignore Macrumors if you so wish.
I'm tired of this ****.
Unfortunately, a large number of complainers are actually people who have celebrated Apple's existence for many years, and are probably so embedded in the Apple ecosystem that it's difficult not to be disappointed with the way things are going.MacRumors used to be a place of Apple enthusiasts who understood the company and celebrated it. Now, it's just a bunch of complainers.
MacRumors used to be a place of Apple enthusiasts who understood the company and celebrated it. Now, it's just a bunch of complainers.
The Apple of today isn't very good as it was under Steve Jobs.
All this drama and then they come up with things like this:
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All this drama and then they come up with things like this:
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Yeah it's a little ironic that a book celebrating the design of technology isn't available on the technology that supposedly is designed and optimized to display a publication like this. Oh jeez give me more caffeine, that sentence just went around in circles. I'm dizzy and have fallen over.I love that Apple is meant to be about design, but their recent products have been questionable. This book is meant to highlight the peak.
Two major design flaws about this book though —
It's not accessible -- it's not available for iPad.
Placing all the product descriptions at the end of the book is a fail -- there's nothing more annoying than jumping back and forwards from page to page to get a clearer understanding. Small descriptions in a light typeface positioned in a corner would make the experience 1000x better, and it wouldn't detract from the clean photography. Now if the book was available on iPad, you could do away with the descriptions on the page and show them only when the user taps the image.
A little more thought and this book would be worth its price tag, but sadly, like a lot of Apple releases of late, it misses the mark.
All this drama and then they come up with things like this:
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This comment works on so many levels. Well done.I hear the next book is gonna be thinner.
Certainly customers have every right to voice their concerns.You should know that Apple customers do have a right to be pissed off with their products.. What makes you think they shouldn't have the ability to voice their concerns about products that suck?MacRumors used to be a place of Apple enthusiasts who understood the company and celebrated it. Now, it's just a bunch of complainers.
Certainly customers have every right to voice their concerns.
As a long-time MacRumors lurker, however, I used to enjoy reading the comments for their well-informed, balanced, insightful perspective. Criticism was often articulate, as was appreciation; I learned from both.
Nowadays, the top-rated comments seem to consist very largely of an endlessly-repeated litany of:
- Tim Cook needs to resign, now!
- The engineers were busy designing new watchbands
- The engineers were busy designing new emojis
- “Can’t innovate, my ass!”
- “Courage!”
That it does. In the same way as when in bygone times, bands would release a "greatest hits" CD (shiny silver round things latterly referred to as optical media...RIP), which was pretty much tacit acknowledgment in the industry they were finished as a creative force, having grown fat (hello Jony), complacent (hello Eddy), and bereft of inspiration, focussed only on a cash grab (hello Tim). A retrospective of their (distant) past work, in other words, for which they could cynically double-dip hopelessly misguided but loyal fans.I love that Apple is meant to be about design, but their recent products have been questionable. This book is meant to highlight the peak.
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A little more thought and this book would be worth its price tag, but sadly, like a lot of Apple releases of late, it misses the mark.
Thank you for the book recommendation. It is definitely more reasonably priced for most budgets.That it does. In the same way as when in bygone times, bands would release a "greatest hits" CD (shiny silver round things latterly referred to as optical media...RIP), which was pretty much tacit acknowledgment in the industry they were finished as a creative force, having grown fat (hello Jony), complacent (hello Eddy), and bereft of inspiration, focussed only on a cash grab (hello Tim). A retrospective of their (distant) past work, in other words, for which they could cynically double-dip hopelessly misguided but loyal fans.
However, for the melancholic and nostalgic amongst you, here's a tip....hit up Amazon and order the far superior von Borries' 2011 book "History of Apple Design" (wait, it actually has background text accompanying the pics) and spare yourself the additional 200 bucks and accompanying sense of violation.
It's almost as if some things have fundamentally changed!MacRumors used to be a place of Apple enthusiasts who understood the company and celebrated it. Now, it's just a bunch of complainers.