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Apple's Input Design Lab Reveals Secrets Behind Development of New iMacs
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I have never needed a USB peripheral for anything I use an iPad for.
I agree that it used to be impossible to do something as simple as add an attachment. But I was pleasantly surprised with iOS 9, as I can add an attachment from OneDrive, Box, Dropbox and iCloud Drive. The future is cloud storage, and the iPad is simply becoming a safe endpoint. The main issue with iOS devices is the single user approach, yet they aren't used that way. How long until you get multi-user functionality in iOS?
BTW, I used Microsoft and Apple products interchangeabley, they lines are blurring.
It's taken a very long time just to get there.
I don't really think the lines are blurring all that much. iOS still lacks a ton of usability that MS addresses. The list of things the iPad can't do, or can't do easily, is extensive.
It isn't just "single user"... it's single task. Sure, you can switch between apps in a very single-task fashion... but fingers crossed your app didn't lose your spot and restart/refresh somewhere else.
Maybe you would use an iPad for more things if you could do those things.
You're putting the cart in front of the horse.
This team is in desperate trouble, and obviously don't use their own products.
A mouse that can't be used while it's charging. A foreign cable system that is made of the worst, most consumer unfriendly materials imaginable. A keyboard with worse travel that ignores the things people actually wanted fixing (the backlight and the numpad option). A trackpad that's huge for no good reason, and less attractive. A desktop Mac with an incredibly slow hard drive and still nothing interesting to address it's complete lack of graphics power while trying to push more pixels.
It's clear this team is lost, with poor leadership. They need help.
A mouse that can't be used while it's charging. A foreign cable system that is made of the worst, most consumer unfriendly materials imaginable. A keyboard with worse travel that ignores the things people actually wanted fixing (the backlight and the numpad option). A trackpad that's huge for no good reason, and less attractive. A desktop Mac with an incredibly slow hard drive and still nothing interesting to address it's complete lack of graphics power while trying to push more pixels.
It's clear this team is lost, with poor leadership. They need help.
I'll disagree to a point...
I was able to spend an entire month using only an iPad. The catch was that at some point I got fed up and had a Bluetooth keyboard shipped to me because the SSH software is really horrible to deal with with autocomplete and no F function keys. As it turns out... the iOS doesn't even pass F keys on a BT keyboard as F keys, they control the iOS volume and screen brightness.
I agree, I can't understand Apple's goals with their mice. They're absolute crap.
For those who complain about the lack of touchscreens on Macs - (from the article):
"There’s one thing, however, that is conspicuously not in the new iMacs — a touch screen. While Microsoft and others now believe that multi-touch should extend to the desktop display, Apple believes this is dead wrong. “From the ergonomic standpoint we have studied this pretty extensively and we believe that on a desktop scenario where you have a fixed keyboard, having to reach up to do touch interfaces is uncomfortable,” says Schiller. “iOS from its start has been designed as a multi-touch experience — you don’t have the things you have in a mouse-driven interface, like a cursor to move around, or teeny little ‘close’ boxes that you can’t hit with your finger. The Mac OS has been designed from day one for an indirect pointing mechanism. These two worlds are different on purpose, and that’s a good thing — we can optimize around the best experience for each and not try to mesh them together into a least-common-denominator experience.” "
Nailed it, dead centre.
"There’s one thing, however, that is conspicuously not in the new iMacs — a touch screen. While Microsoft and others now believe that multi-touch should extend to the desktop display, Apple believes this is dead wrong. “From the ergonomic standpoint we have studied this pretty extensively and we believe that on a desktop scenario where you have a fixed keyboard, having to reach up to do touch interfaces is uncomfortable,” says Schiller. “iOS from its start has been designed as a multi-touch experience — you don’t have the things you have in a mouse-driven interface, like a cursor to move around, or teeny little ‘close’ boxes that you can’t hit with your finger. The Mac OS has been designed from day one for an indirect pointing mechanism. These two worlds are different on purpose, and that’s a good thing — we can optimize around the best experience for each and not try to mesh them together into a least-common-denominator experience.” "
Nailed it, dead centre.
You do realize that engineering most likely isn't making that decision. Blame rests squarely on Phil Schiller and marketing IMO.
Right because you really need to use the mouse for the two minutes you're charging it (to get 9 hours of battery life). But if it bothers you that much just stick it on an iPhone charger dock.Interesting how they are finicky about how the mouse sounds, but not the fact of how stupid it will look upside down with a lightning cable sticking out of it, rendering it useless while charging, or the fact it's an ergonomic nightmare
Windows 10 runs nicely on a spinning Harddrive. OSX does not.
Regardless, the bottom of a mouse is a stupid place for the charge port, for a company who pay attention to the smallest details.
Why couldn't they have designed a more ergonomic mouse with a lightning port at the back so you can use it while it's charging?
You can't deny it's a stupid design choice, the trackpad and keyboard have seen improvements as you can charge and contiune working which is easier than changing batteries, Apple make the best keyboards and trackpads no doubt, but they always seem to stuggle with mice.
Maybe that is a way to think about it, but I think about all the other peripherals that I have ever used on my desktops, and not a single one would be beneficial for me to use "on-the-go". Everything that I would use with my iPad has Bluetooth functionality, with is compatible with the iPad.
Well;
I've gotten 6 years of near daily usage from my 2009 27" iMac, and now looking at the below.
Thoughts/comments?
Anyone else here have a similar machine , how do you like it?
I'm looking to get again 6 years from this machine ....
yep 2021!
For reference the 2009 27" iMac.
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Ha, my bad it's iMac not imack, fat fingers
I've gotten 6 years of near daily usage from my 2009 27" iMac, and now looking at the below.
Thoughts/comments?
Anyone else here have a similar machine , how do you like it?
I'm looking to get again 6 years from this machine ....
yep 2021!
For reference the 2009 27" iMac.
[edit]
Ha, my bad it's iMac not imack, fat fingers
And yet none of these people thought that backlighting in the new keyboard was important!!?
That comment is hilariously stupid on his part. And no, Phil, still not buying an iPad Pro that still doesn't replace my MacBook. Maybe if the iPad grows some balls.... (the pro is still pubescent) but until then.... watch as the world moves to Surface and Surface like devices while you still insist people don't want them.... yet it's the largest growth category in computing since the tablet. Why add touch to the iMac or make a hyrbrid device? Oh right, you don't get about pro users or business...
I wouldn't use mighty mouse if it were free.... literally. The last iMac I bought saw it in use for a day before I bought something else. Then to jack the price up... yet in the same breath say people really use the iPad and not the mac???
That's just about what I would get. Personally I would do the RAM myself for less money, and spend more to get the 1TB SSD.
I'll be doing just that whenever I can scrounge up the funds.
A second medium story that includes photos of some of the machinery and testing kit Apple engineers use.
https://medium.com/p/6637e2e5492e
Interesting that Apple allowed photos for this PR piece but the Bloomberg one right after the September event, which took place in Apple's design studio, had no photos. I guess that's one place off limits to cameras.
https://medium.com/p/6637e2e5492e
Interesting that Apple allowed photos for this PR piece but the Bloomberg one right after the September event, which took place in Apple's design studio, had no photos. I guess that's one place off limits to cameras.