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Apple's Product Design Team Reportedly Focused More on Costs in Recent Years
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assuming apple wouldn't increases prices yet even more than they do today.
No, it hasn’t reduced cost, but it has led to not increasing the cost of iPhones.
More profit for Apple, sure, but also we don’t have $2000 iPhones because of rising production/manufacturing costs.
They should have cut costs for their campus.
Magic Mouse sucks. iPhone 4 had antenna gate. iPhone 6 bent. Every single 2010-2011 MacBook Pro *will* have dGPU issues. 2016 MacBook Pros were a disaster.
Funny how Apple's products have gotten a lot more usable (if uglier) in the years since Ive left.
90% of US teenagers owning an iPhone is evidence of eroding consumer trust, got it.
The M1 MacBook Pros were a home run. The M2 Air is pretty obviously phoned in. It looks good IMO, but where the Pros feel like they were designed that way with intent, the M2 looks like somebody just shrunk some dimensions in CAD and then called it a day. For all the good things I feel like Apple has been doing with design over the past few years, there's still plenty of issues (monitor without a removable power cable anyone?).
They will . I mean, they can . People will buy anyway . They know it .
1479€ for an iPhone 14 pro max in Europe really hurts
And im repeating myself once again, the new MacBook Pro m2 pros Will also see a 400-500€ price increase , be prepared
This is what happens when you have a glorified accountant as a ceo
Since Ive left we are getting ugly devices. The new MacBook Pro's are ugly compared to the 2019 16" Pro, thats a thing of beauty. They should have just slapped a M1 Pro chip in it, then we would have not got the nasty notch.
The new M1 iMac looks disgusting, vulgar even, makes my eyes bleed just looking at it. White bezels and no Apple logo on the front , YUCK!
I'm for practical designs, but at least make them look good.
You literally just described every generation of Powerbook, iBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro that offered more than one size.
Even though I personally do not see MacBook Pros as ugly, almost everyone in my circle has said it was either ugly or not Apple-like.
As for the new iMac, it's an abomination compared to the previous design.
I agree these MacBooks have great performance. Utilitarian? I disagree on that. They look sleek and beautiful, but I guess beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
I don't understand the MacBook hate. I agree with you.
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I don't think Steve Jobs knew he was going to stick around for over a decade or so. Tim Cook refuses to leave Apple and give someone else a chance to be a CEO and run the company.
Hey now, the 12 inch PowerBook and the 17 inch PowerBook were way more than a mass shrink in CAD, the aspect ratio changed, the 12 inch is thicker, etc. They would have had to tweak each dimension individually for that one.
In seriousness though, I never said that wasn't what they've always done within a product line. The issue is that the Air and the Pro are not the same product line. For me the high point of Apple's laptop design was back around when the Air was first introduced, and at that time you had Pros, Air, and base MacBooks that were all designed individually. In comparison the design of the M2 Air just feels... redundant.
You’re confusing engineering issues with design.
Please go think different as the Apple slogan when Apple was a great company went.
Steve’s worst mistake.
Schiller would’ve likely kept Steve’s Apple
Jony would have obviously, but he didn’t want to lead.
What’s that plastic spacer people keep talking about? The place where the SIM card tray used to be (and still is, in iPhones produced for most international markets)?
I, for one, as a customer from one such market, will be happy about the plastic spacer if the iPhone 15 or 16 comes in a mini version and with a SIM card tray, as that approach simplifies parts across SKUs and keeps iPhones cheaper for everyone, while still catering to the world at large. We were always treated as second-class customers, and it’s nice to be on the opposite end for a change.
Besides, it’s just half a gram and a few cubic millimeters’ worth of plastic, we’re not exactly talking PC case-levels of wasted space here. Apple has made much worse corner-cutting decisions lately, such as keeping the Apple Pencil 1 alive by means of yet another stupid adapter they couldn’t even get in stock in time for the iPad 10’s launch. Or the still dumb, bottom-charging Magic Mouse.
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Also, was it just me or did MR take an article about essentially secession planning and make it about clickbait "cost over design"?? There was like 5% of the article focused on that and 95% about how the design team is going through change.
Not sure what is meant. Why should Tim Cook leave Apple as if some MacRumors posters could influence his decision because they are critical of some things in Apple? Tim Cook will retire when he is ready or his hand is forced.
Ive designed one of my favorite iPhone's....the iPhone 4. The iPhone 14....same edges. Did you mean something else maybe?