I can't speak for others, but I'm just celebrating "change".
The Tim Cook playbook is totally stale, and getting worse... to say nothing of the directions he's taken the company specifically in the last calendar year in "other areas" let's say.
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I can't speak for others, but I'm just celebrating "change".
The Tim Cook playbook is totally stale, and getting worse... to say nothing of the directions he's taken the company specifically in the last calendar year in "other areas" let's say.
Technology the enemy?????? For as many 'use a design that painted ourselves into a corner" that Apple is ... technology is the only thing that gets you out of the corner. Apple throws execessive design contraints at their products that they hope technology unwinds. Technology is the only hope; not the enemy.
For example, Apple spent how many YEARS trying to make butterfly keyboard work? Simple solution is just not make laptop quite as thin; problem solved. Nope Apple spins around and around trying to make entirely self imposed constraint work.
The Mac Mini was relatively smaller ... What does Apple do on last redesign ... let's make it so smaller that have to hide the button on the bottom. That you don't have to turn it off very often is the technological save there.
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An engineer would never think of removing ports from a laptop in order to make it thinner and lighter. At the time, more companies were concerned with how much tech they could cram into a computer to improve its selling points, never stopping to think about just what it was about a laptop that truly mattered to the end user.
The only reason we even for the MBA was because Steve Jobs was thinking of design first (how something works), and not getting all excited about the latest tech and rushing to incorporate it into their products (remember how the OG MBA sported an iPod flash drive simply because it was the only one that could fit inside at the time).
An engineer would never contemplate letting the iPad run iOS, because of how gimped the specs would look like on paper. This is what design entails. Looking at the end user experience you want your users to have, then working backwards to see how best to deliver that experience.
AirPods is arguably Jony Ive at his best. The stem doubles as both the antenna, space for the battery and something for users to hold on to. It released to much ridicule at the time, even amongst users here. A decade later, the AirPods remain iconic in their appearance, and they are pretty much synonymous with each other.
The problem with not trying to make laptops as thin is, well, what makes them stand out from other computers? Don't you think that the MacBook Pro, while Apple's most powerful laptop, is also its most uninspiring? It's just safe. No more trying to make a statement or push for a change like back in 2016 when they shipped with only usb-c ports. This was the one shift I wish Apple had not backtracked on.
I welcome Apple continuing to make their Macs smaller, even their desktop models, for no reason than just because they can. And if it entails certain design choices that require a change in user habits, part of the fun is precisely working around those constraints.
You would think that being Apple users themselves, members in this forum would have learnt to respect the power granted by a limitation overcome. But sadly, it's like the only things they can see these days with Apple products, are the flaws. 😕
I hope whoever ends up in charge of Apple Watch seriously rethinks the UX there.
Seriously - who decided album art is more important and useful than media controls?
In workout - this big screen on my wrist can only display at most 3 workouts at a time in the list view?
There are more questionable choices all across watchOS. I'm left wondering if the people at Apple actually even use their own software or if they just look at it.
Seriously - who decided album art is more important and useful than media controls?
In workout - this big screen on my wrist can only display at most 3 workouts at a time in the list view?
There are more questionable choices all across watchOS. I'm left wondering if the people at Apple actually even use their own software or if they just look at it.
