Or the hardware testers complained that the coating wasn't holding up and the color didn't retain it's appearance very well in durability testing and Ive/Steve made an executive level decision to just ship it anyway. Because, that's very much a thing that happens in hardware development. Same thing could have happened with the antenna (though that's less likely).
That’s a shame, it should ideally be all three are goals for any product, not having cost restrictions interfere.
then there's no point in cost cutting measures when they can just increase prices even more to make up for lack of cost cutting measures.
Except Apple Pencil 2 requires hardware built into the iPad and that would have increased the build cost of the iPad and that would have been passed down to the consumer closing the already tight gap with the iPad Air. This way, Apple makes at least $10 and gets rid of Apple Pencil 1 stock. I also don't think the iPad falls under any mandates but I could be wrong on that.
Speaking as a procrastinator the real issue with the Magic Mouse is the ergonomics. Personally the charging port was just insult to (very literal) injury. I will say though that in full-time use my experience was that it had to be charged about every other week, as opposed to my current mouse, which is more like every 6-8 months.
They come up with hundreds if not thousands of different designs. There are plenty stuff that never make it pass the concept art phase, let alone the prototyping phase. Y'all can do a search for Apple prototype designs and see quite wild concepts.
The iPhone 4 for Verizon and later iPhone 4S had 4 antenna breaks instead of the original 3. They didn’t just shift the breaks. Technically, that’s not the same design per se. That was a revision of that antenna design.
Yeah, not having to build the inductive charging rail onto the iPad was probably the main driver behind using the Pencil 1. If they wanted to maintain community goodwill, though, they would have rev'd the Pencil 1 to have a USB-C port on it, or at the very least included the stupid adapter in the box with the iPad. I like Apple's general trends in design recently, but holy cow do they still put out some nonsense every now and then. 😂
I am more focused on the design innovation than performance as I though that was the purpose of this article. I agree that Apple is in fact innovating when it comes to Apple Silicon performance.
Would honestly rather have Apple spike and basic needs prices stop spiraling out of control
And so why did Apple increase prices across all its services in the US then? Because it had nothing to do with currency rates.. what's your excuse for that? Considering they made an extra 10 billion in profits over 2021 across its services.
Essentially that it'd be better to have the iPhone priced out of reach than bread, I suspect.
Engineering and design go hand in hand - engineering determines whether or not a design is feasible, and indeed Apple has often used clever engineering as a feature of its design (ie: MagSafe).
correct. Exactly my point: if Apple didn’t focus on lowering costs, our iPhones would be more expensive than they are now.
Know what happens with profits first companies? Enron and Bernie Madoff come to mind. You have to take care of your customers with your services. Evidently Apple customers see the value of the services and the price they pay for those services.
