Apple's Product Design Team Reportedly Focused More on Costs in Recent Years

[cardfan]

They need to stop holding back and just put MacOS on the iPad. They designed the Magic Keyboard with the trackpad already.

Obviously the current greedy Apple won’t do that because it would kill a big chunk of their MacBook sales because iPads are a lot cheaper.

Once again it would mean more iPad sales which benefits apple much more. Obviously.

 

[UK-MacAddict]

Putting macOS on the iPad is not beneficial for Apple, and it will cost a lot of money and time.

Greedy Apple prefers to just sell people more expensive products with expensive accessories. Thus the expensive keyboards.

Wouldn’t cost them anything other than sales. It has Apple Silicon so MacOS would run on it already.

Whether they want to enable touch in MacOS is the other issue.

 

[UK-MacAddict]

Once again it would mean more iPad sales which benefits apple much more. Obviously.

They’d lose more money than they’d gain.

 

[BC2009]

A USB-C port wouldn't be any thicker than a lightning port. I think it was the camera(s) that they used, and they added a bit more battery power.

A lightning connector plug is 1.5mm thick. A USB-C connector is 2.56mm thick. So I would have to disagree with you on that. The opening on the phone has to be a little over 1mm thicker.

 

[Isamilis]

Not just costs. Since Ive left we got practical designs again. All the form over function designs Ive made that crippled so many products finally got reversed and they're now better than ever (except the mouse. For some reason they haven't reverted that one yet.)

Plus we're getting cheaper machines as a result. Hope we get some more cheaper Macs because of this, and maybe a monitor that isn't absurdly overpriced lmao.

Yeah, and Apple products eventually will be similar with the competitors. It’s not Apple anymore, it’s just another brand in the crowd.
People (including myself) love Apple products due to its design. These people will be disappointed in next few years.

 

[Oscar_440]

lemme tell you something about companies: the demise starts when they prioritize providing value to the shareholders rather than customers
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Tim would have to attend that TED talk…