Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Jony Ive Discusses Design of Apple Watch in Latest Interview

Rogifan said:
Wouldn't it be uncomfortable to be spending a lot of time fiddling with/looking at your wrist? To me long interactions with the watch would be a big FAIL.
Click to expand...

I hope not. Immediately after a run I spend 3-5 minutes fiddling with my Garmin reading my performance stats for instant gratification. The iPhone app has more detailed info but I'm all sweaty so not really practical at that point.

My Garmin has a touch screen not as good as the Apple Watch's will presumably be so I would guess it would be very easy to swipe around to see stats for a couple minutes.

Now if you are talking about a game or web browsing, yes, I can see that would not be fun. The watch will be best used for small bits of information not giant scoops.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
People LOVED their Blackberries so much in 2007 that they were referred to as "Crackberries." ... It was only after the iPhone (and App Store) were with us that we realized how terrible the Blackberry and Palm phones were.
Click to expand...

I've seen this time and again: a particular use case becomes popular and compelling, and tools serving that grow to fully serve that use case ... but while functionally complete, their design is awful, with people using it enthusiastically for what it does but hating how it does it. Eventually another iteration follows, with the UI/UX crystalizing into something very clean and suitable. WordStar was followed by Word 6, 1-2-3 was followed by Excel, Notes was followed by Outlook & others, etc.
 
I’m beginning to like the iWatch.

Johson Ive on the other hand is full of it.
His most thought out designs thpugh, are the overly contrived paragraphs he gives when a yes or no answer would suffice.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
You joke... or maybe not, but Under Armour is already working on "smart clothes" with sensors embedded in them and to be compatible with Under Armour's smartphone apps and web portals.
Click to expand...

It starts with a rectangular box in our pockets, then our first wearable, then another. Before long...

"We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."

Can't we just skip to that "future"...

borg.jpg
 
Mac rumors updated it to confirm the Apple watch is higher than $349.

Well, sure, when everyone has assumed it is, Apple has fixed that. :)
 
H2SO4 said:
His most thought out designs thpugh, are the overly contrived paragraphs he gives when a yes or no answer would suffice.
Click to expand...

He excels because he "over-thinks" everything, obsessing over the slightest details at great cost & time. Even most every yes/no question has background & caveats & special cases & nuances qualifying it, and his success comes from indulging those details.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
You joke... or maybe not, but Under Armour is already working on "smart clothes" with sensors embedded in them and to be compatible with Under Armour's smartphone apps and web portals.
Click to expand...

Apple (amongst others) have been working on shoe/ski/fitness equipment that links to their iOS devices for quite some time:

6a0120a5580826970c0147e363b65e970b-800wi


6a0120a5580826970c016760ae6f10970b-800wi


6a0120a5580826970c016301137568970d-800wi
 
shk718 said:
If you took the time to actually read the words he uses you'd notice that he rarely, if never, says "I" when talking about the design process - it's always "we". He is one of the most self-deprecating people out there.
Click to expand...

That’s because he’s a public face in a position of power. Think about how many times a manager making a company address tries to make you feel like part of a family even if he’s eons above your position and you’ll never meet him.
It’s all about boosting morale.
 
ctdonath said:
I've seen this time and again: a particular use case becomes popular and compelling, and tools serving that grow to fully serve that use case ... but while functionally complete, their design is awful, with people using it enthusiastically for what it does but hating how it does it. Eventually another iteration follows, with the UI/UX crystalizing into something very clean and suitable. WordStar was followed by Word 6, 1-2-3 was followed by Excel, Notes was followed by Outlook & others, etc.
Click to expand...

Understood but you missed my point -- It was only to say in 2007 people adored their Blackberry and Palm phones. They might have been crap in retrospect but few were moaning about the state of the tech at the time. To the contrary, users pawed them 24/7 like we use iPhones now -- hard to put down, hence the moniker "Crackberry." The iPhone was an enlightning experience and completely changed the market and expectations of what a smart phone should be and do.

----------
AppleScruff1 said:
Made from aluminum or will they be unapologetically plastic?
Click to expand...

Perfectly Pleasing Pleather.
 
ctdonath said:
He excels because he "over-thinks" everything, obsessing over the slightest details at great cost & time. Even most every yes/no question has background & caveats & special cases & nuances qualifying it, and his success comes from indulging those details.
Click to expand...

Sounds like he has you believing him too. Trust me if it was details, (like it used to be), you wouldn’t have the 6 looking as conflicted as it does.
His designs are on expensive goods and that gives him further space to make himself appear exalted.
 
Wrist is definitely the best place for this technology - for wrist watch. Not a very good place for another kind of technology - grandfather clock.
 
This guy can be annoying. He's acting like people are going to climax after looking at the watch. It's beautifully designed but come on Jony
 
AppleScruff1 said:
Made from aluminum or will they be unapologetically plastic?
Click to expand...

The new :apple:Shoe will be a sandal made of the highest-grade aircraft aluminum chain-mail mesh, each link individually brushed and treated with a nano-scale oleophobic coating made by a startup funded with $1B up-front by :apple:. The mesh will consist of 100 layers still no more than 5mm thick and flexible like self-connected water. You won't believe how incredibly thin and supple it feels.

For those requiring actual shoes, there will be an environmentally friendly vegetable-extract plastic cover that seamlessly connects to the aluminum sandal base with rare-earth magnets.
 
I wonder if Apple will sell this stand/box/charging dock that come with the high end version seperate as well. Prolly be preapared to spend an $75 extra if so.
 
karlwig said:
It's only "mature" to the point of current tech limitations. I think it's a safe bet Jony Ive is gonna reduce the tickness in the 2nd generation.
Click to expand...
I don't think it's a safe bet at all. My hunch is that the first few generations of Apple Watch will vary in capability, but the form will stay exactly the same.

(And if you actually meant "tickness", then it will increase, because future generations will be able to non-invasively measure things like blood sugar.)
 
So.

Jony Ive's can't tell time because he has to look at his watch repeatedly? So he created the world's most expensive Casio to solve that problem.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back