Does it have to be easily repairable when the life cycle is a handful of years and the march of technology pushes you to upgrade before your device is likely to break?
Last edited:
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Jony Ive Details Apple Design Process, iPhone 6 Design Choices in New Interview
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Does it have to be easily repairable when the life cycle is a handful of years and the march of technology pushes you to upgrade before your device is likely to break?
True. But, I don't respect choosing to work on gadgets instead of spending time with your husband/wife and children. You see that as admirable, but I doubt his little children see it the same way. Oh, but at least we get the protruding camera and the 14k gold apple watch. I guess that makes the childrens' sacrifice worth it.
Well, if that's theft...
Here's the 1st gen AppleTV:
This was released in January 2007.
The 2nd gen AppleTV was released in September 2010.
Here's the WDTV Mini, released about a year before the 2nd gen AppleTV:
So, did Apple steal that design then?
Nope. Very good chance they didn't even know the WDTV was around
I knew that defense would be coming. Western Digital isn't a small, unknown brand, and the design team at Apple is well aware about what other companies have designed.
Edit: But thanks for being the first to make the argument that when a company copies Apple it's theft, but when Apple copies it's not.
Last edited:
This is always a tough call. I used to work as a manager at my company and stepped down because the hours took too much away from my family. I am also military and have spent a lot of time away from them for that reason. Someone has to do the hard jobs and it is the family that suffers for it. Does anyone at Apple *have* to work so much? To remain a competitive company ... probably. Should the world be that way? No, I don't believe so, but how does one make the playing field even? Say the government enforces a 40 hour work week to make things fair. Someone will always cheat on that and succeed because of it. Nature of the beast I guess.
----------
I was wondering if you would catch my facetious answer.
Seriously though, why would you call this copying? Looks to me Apple took their old design, shrunk it, simplified it and colored it black (hardly a new thing for Apple). That it happens to look like Western digital is a coincidence. Would you have been happier if they colored it white?
No. Hes made that choice. Hes a designer that makes leisure items, he's not defending the country, teaching or saving lives. There is nothing so important that he cant leave it until the next day.
no! its srs bidness up in here!! apple fans, amazingly wound up whenever apple is called out as NOT being the second coming of chri....
*coming from an apple shareholder/imac/mbp/iphone3,4,5s user so please keep your Samsung retorts to yourselves fanboi's*
I'll have to think on this more. Maybe that says something about my own values and I'm not sure I'm proud of that.
Strictly speaking, however, does he merely make leisure items? They are being used to in the military, medical field, education field, fire & rescue fields, space exploration and so on. Not to mention the fact that his efforts help keep people in jobs. In a very real way, he helps make it possible for other people to be able to invest more time in *their* families. You begin to see why I don't feel this is so clear cut.
You say he's not defending the country, but I use the devices he designed to help my fellow Soldiers do exactly that. He's not teaching, but our schools are full of iMacs, Macbooks and iPads that help teachers educate children. He's not saving lives but there are first responders all over the US now using Apple devices to help them route their rescue vehicles. Thoughts?
Last edited:
When I was younger and more obsessed with overtime and money. Id be available for work virtually 24-7. Im in management now and have my own team of engineers but Im on a duty manager rota also.
These days outside of the DM hours I will only answer the phone to those I deem as friends and at the same time colleagues and quite often turn my phoned off completely.
Why? It took me a while but I realised that its just nicer to be at home with your family and the friends I actually chose. If an emergency comes in Im afraid itll just have to wait or be passed to someone else.
Quite often companies make you feel that you should be on call 24-7 but they on the whole show you no gratitude for it. (Salary aside).
I used to wonder why some employees would stop typing mid sentence when it reached clocking out time. Im not that bad but Im just a number these days.
Works good, lasts a long time...Despite the overblown "viral" nonsense on the net, the 6 and 6 plus continue to sell well.
Having held it for a few weeks now there is no way id want my iPhone 6 to be thicker.
If you want a "bigger battery" you have the chose to carry one around with you, any size you see fit form something that fits in your wallet the width of 5 credit cards to something that 50,000 mAh - make the choice and enjoy the thinnest phone in the world.
This has to be a joke.
It's a little black minimalistic box so it must be a copy? Corner radius isn't even close, so is the logo position and remote design.
Really the shape is exactly like other products Apple had done in the past (AirPort Extreme, Mac mini), all it otherwise has in common with the WD is the black color.
WD probably were more inspired by the 1st-gen Apple TV while making this product (both the concept and general shape) than Apple were inspired by WD while making the 2nd-gen Apple TV for... choosing the black color?
You remind me of those people that accused Apple of copying Nokia when they announced the 5c, ignoring Nokia basically had to rethink their whole smartphone concept because of the iPhone, just because Apple supposedly copied some colors...
Last edited:
Ive's aesthetic is quite apparent in the ip6 and iwatch, he's definitely the one calling the shots. I feel bad for all the talented people working on his team. The sad thing is there's no one at Apple who would or could go over his head on aesthetic decisions. I miss the jobs era.
I've used every iPhone and the majority of flagship Android phones and every version of Android OS, concurrently since each platform began. While it was once true Apple's user experience was the best, since the release of Android 4.x.x, that's no longer true. The IT pros you cite certainly have they're favorites but I can speak from first hand current experience that the Android platform is greatly improved. Fast, stable, very smooth and fluid, it's every bit as good if not better than IOS presently. Those that lack current Android experience are in no position to comment.
Lol, that's like saying "If you want a bigger screen, just slap a magnifying glass on it". Maybe something like this one:
I've been in the industry for over 10 years and have worked heavily with many sectors (developers, engineers, etc.) within IT. The kicker is at one of the largest gaming companies in the world, all of their windows administrators (i.e. Sharepoint, Exchange, etc.) were all on Mac products at home. Some of them had android phone and some on IOS, but my point is Windows for IT professionals is a minority. About an even split between IOS and Android. I don't know a single person that runs only Windows on Mac. So I have no idea what you are talking about.
- Android hardware? --- Android is software
- charging more for less functionality? --- give an example
Jony gives me the creeps. And what he's doing to IOS and OSX is putting me off Apple. I wish they'd remove him from the UI section. Low contrast visibility is my main gripe. Thin type. Buttons and UI elements that don't stand out. Looks super cool but is super unusable. And that's just the way it looks. And annoying animations in OS X.
Last edited: