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Apple's Greg Joswiak on AirPods Growth: 'It Was Almost Like Wildfire'
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As an indie I can tell you that's not accurate. Clients often times want to use the latest and greatest sensors and such. You damn well better be up on all of them if you want to land gigs.
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Wow, that's a depressing attitude. If I thought working on self-driving cars was where my career needed to go, I'd invest in it. Assuming you're not an indie, and can learn on your company's time/dime.
Yup let’s not assume what goes through a stranger’s head. Especially the folks who brought us the camera bump, the bending iPad, the charging port at the botttom of the mouse that renders simultaneous use impossible. The move was clearly profit oriented and strengthened by removing the headphone jack.
Well, I just meant it in the vernacular, as a saying. As in 'I wish you good luck generally, regardless of any differences of opinion we might have on wireless headphones'.
I could have said 'live and let live' and then presumably someone would be asking me to explain why there is any question of living and is it not redundant to let live if one is already living...
But... seeing as you ask, I suppose I could answer more literally, and say that:
a) With a global pandemic right now, perhaps we should all wish each other good luck.
b) With AirPods specifically, the batteries will eventually run down, and there is some possibility one might lose one or both of the earphones down a drain or some other hard to recover place, so good luck to you as I wouldn't wish that to happen to anyone.
Finally, it's just nice to wish people good luck, isn't it? We live in a world where no matter how much order we strive for, no matter how much planning and forethought we may put into our lives, seemingly random events can and do occur and we all have to live with some amount of chaos and fortune involved. So good luck to you too.
Thank you for taking the time to add some context!
a camera bump that several major cell phone manufacturers now have?
new iPad Pro 2020 bends the same amount. people are buying them. this hasn't been a widespread issue. i can easily bend the 12.9 iPad Pro first gen, but no one complained about that. overblown issue.
charge port on the bottom has quick charge so it takes 2 minutes of "free time" to charge for a full day (only for the months you forget to charge) vs 2 minutes of "busy time" of swapping out batteries every month on the magic mouse 1. also using the magic mouse while plugged in will fray the cable easily. magic mouse 2 is better than the magic mouse 1 in every possible way so the design goal was met. tell me again how the magic mouse 2 is worse than the magic mouse 1? sure magic mouse is not a great mouse, but it definitely improved the magic mouse 1 in every possible way yet magic mouse 1 didn't get nearly the amount of hate. another overblown issue.
this is why they're designers and you're not. they think about these issues that non-designers don't foresee. they're not perfect obviously (Mac Pro 2013, AirPower, butterfly keyboards), but the examples you gave don't really justify anything about them being bad designers.
You are bringing designers into a guessing game that you don’t know. I’m not going to continue down the road other than showing you that these people are not perfect in any way. The move and back to my point was not a designer’s decision but one for profit. AirPods were conveniently released at the same time another option was designed out of the product.
The removal of the port, the reduction in ports, doesn’t come from a designer that you assume shares your feelings on how “painful” dealing with wires is.
And please, don’t guess around what my job is.
Never said they were perfect. My comment literally stated this.
So you're saying if Apple spaced out the AirPods from the headphone jack removal, it wouldn't be considered "for profit"? That's ridiculous. AirPods would still have sold like hotcakes even if they still included the headphone jack. Nobody is going "oh, headphone jack is gone, I gotta get AirPods now" considering that there are dongles to use lightning port as the headphone port. AirPods sell great because they're convenient regardless of the existence of a headphone jack
And please, don't guess around who I don't know. I've literally worked at Apple HQ (pre-spaceship), talked with a couple of designers. I actually had a roommate that worked in the ID department of Apple while I was working at Apple.
No I’m saying that the removal and the introduction came hand in hand. Not one because of the other. The removal certainly helped a lot in the process.
AirPods are a nice product one way or the other but their appearance was timed.
I'm saying it didn't really help a lot. Customers didn't base their AirPods purchase because the dongle was too much to handle. They bought AirPods because it's a great product.
The sensor is diff then the operating systems can be supported to the client. I don't deal with gig thou. I write software web, normal application, and mobile apps. Not sensor.