You do realize Jobs didn’t build the phones himself right? It’s been Jony all 10 years as far as aesthetics are concerned.
Your statement is such a catch-all and oversimplification to the point where it's revisionist. Steve Jobs "built the phone himself" in the sense that he was the visionary and person who would direct the design and development of pretty much all of Apple's technologies.
It's now fairly well known... he sat in the design rooms and went through the styrofoam prototypes of new designs weekly for Apple's products like iPod, iPhone, etc. He would set aside ones he didn't like, and pick one that he liked and the design team (including Ive) would move in that direction.
Steve's Levi's jeans were what shaped the iPod and iPhone: they had to fit in his front jeans pocket comfortably.
Steve also pulled the plug on the tablet (they were working on the iPad prior to the iPhone) and had the idea to make a multi-touch phone. He hated his cell phone and wanted to reinvent it, which is what they did. Steve is the reason we have the iPhone.
Steve also stated in an interview that Apple was basically working on 2-3 generations of phones ahead of time. The design we see of the iPhone really has not changed since iPhone 6, which came out in 2014. Jobs passed away in 2011. However, the design of the iPhone 6 could very well have been something already in play in Apple's labs when Steve was still around.
When we look at the iPhone 8, it's basically the exact same design as the iPhone 6, which really speaks volumes about Apple's ability to innovate. Namely, that it continues to recycle the same design over and over, which isn't always a good thing.
When we look at the Apple TV, Cook ended up utilizing a new UI for the Apple TV which was one that Jobs threw in the trash can, and I could see why Jobs didn't like it.
Apple is struggling to design new stuff. We see it with UI updates in iOS (they change the UI elements even on the phone in incremental updates to iOS, which is pretty crazy). We see it in the Apple TV remote: it's a terrible design.
No idea where Apple goes from here, but something has to give.
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Out of all the complaints about the X, this is the dumbest I've seen. And this is coming from someone who isn't a fan of the X. Sorry an increase of 0.6 mm is nearly imperceptible. Obviously thickness is going to change slightly from year to year, sometimes bigger, sometimes smaller.
It is not imperceptible and you don't have to be sorry.
the 6+ was heavy and then the 6s+ made it even worse, finally with the 7+ we got a lighter phone. It's a first world issue but with my keys and my phone and a vaporizer, even little bit of weight matters, and the 6S+ caused my jeans to slip down so I'm sure the 8+ will be even worse. It's not a probably of fitting into pockets, it's the weight once it's in them.
