Awesome, I might actually watch this movie then, it's likely the most accurate portrayal.
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Jony Ive Discusses His Lasting Memory of Steve Jobs, New Role as Chief Design Officer
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Awesome, I might actually watch this movie then, it's likely the most accurate portrayal.
We don't want to hear them every year.. year after year.. it kind of gets tiring, you know?
Office lighting is bad enough to trigger this. It's really quite an incentive to question what Apple's internal content creators use to do their work...
So basically you're not interested in a balanced view of the man but something that confirms your existing opinions of him.
But all these new movies and books and quotes from Woz, Andy Hertzfeld, John Sculley etc. every year are a-ok.
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Back with tired ol Ive again. This guy is one of the worst spokesmen Apple has. He should stay behind the scenes and do his creative work. The product videos were cool, but the gimmick has worn off, he's a parody of himself.
I am not saying that's ok either. Steve is a legacy and let it be. We don't need to keep hearing about his good or bad side of it every year. Apple has better things to do than do this. Let me ask the simple question: Why is Apple hell bent on this PR campaign, if Steve Job was not good. Or does Apple think that people are dumb and this movie will sway them away from Steve? Did Social Networking movie do anything to change the image of Mark? Did Mark do the same thing then what Apple is doing now just for a movie? Give some credit to people. But no, Apple always thinks people are dumb. And they think that because people keep buying new iPhones with incremental features. I wonder who is at fault here..
Mind to share where you got the stats of "Most people"?
Also, it would be a good idea to compare how many people with 3.5" or 4" iPhones got the new larger phones while their older phones were not slowed to a crawl with the new iOS updates.
The very same reason why my iPad 3 will not see anything beyond iOS 6...
That was a figure cited by Tim Cook at a quarterly earnings call. It was a while ago, so it may have gone up since.
Maybe,maybe not but definitelly without protruding lenses and rubber antenna bands.
and no Apple watch;in it's current form at least..
and no under powered Macbook either..
he would not approve launch of products with flaws and limitations present.
No more new iProducts. Everything New will be the Apple xxx. That's Tim's mark in the company.
This so-called design president has done nothing less than cripple what Jobs invented...
If anything, he made it impossible to capture the Moment with the Camera... Now, when launching the Camera, first it has to blur in nicely with an animated effect - and when it is done, the awesome moment you wanted to photograph in the first place is long GONE !
Voice Recording wind up being over-written as it is totally unclear whether one has made a NEW memo or is recording to an old one. After recording there is NO undue. Nothing. SO goodbye memories.
After entering the unlock code, one is met with a thousand notifications about this and that and before one can get to do what one opted to do when entering the unlock key, one has to click away all the stuff that Jony Ive loves...
iOS and OS X is NOT progress. They are the opposite. Bloat-ware which satisfies the bored programmer and designer incapable of inventing. Jobs was the inventor, Ive the Executor. Without Jobs - Ive has NOTHING to execute !
If anything, he made it impossible to capture the Moment with the Camera... Now, when launching the Camera, first it has to blur in nicely with an animated effect - and when it is done, the awesome moment you wanted to photograph in the first place is long GONE !
Voice Recording wind up being over-written as it is totally unclear whether one has made a NEW memo or is recording to an old one. After recording there is NO undue. Nothing. SO goodbye memories.
After entering the unlock code, one is met with a thousand notifications about this and that and before one can get to do what one opted to do when entering the unlock key, one has to click away all the stuff that Jony Ive loves...
iOS and OS X is NOT progress. They are the opposite. Bloat-ware which satisfies the bored programmer and designer incapable of inventing. Jobs was the inventor, Ive the Executor. Without Jobs - Ive has NOTHING to execute !
That's a lovely account of Jobs's beliefs as understood through him talking up the products that were currently available.
Now, if we hone in on the question of success, well, no CEO was more successful, end of story.
Stop cherry-picking for examples to prove something that isn't true; that he was a failure. No CEO was more successful.
I couldn't agree with you more, "something" is missing from Apple today. I bought my first Apple product, a 128k Mac, in 1984, it was magical and many of their products still are. However the Watch isn't one of them. Apple Music and iTunes are a confusing mess. Jobs idea behind the Mac was to make something that just worked, right out of the box. That concept is being lost, the current OS's are obtuse with many of the features going unused because the end user can't figure out how to use them.
Ive's design of iOS and OS X may be beautiful but the "white on light" interface is hard to see if you don't have 20/20 vision. The sad part is you can't change it to make it more readable. You must accept Ive's concept of beautiful over usability.
Sigh, I am looking forward to seeing "Jobs" this weekend. I feel he was a visionary and a genius, I don't really care if he wasn't the nicest guy in town, I don't care that he had outbursts, he got the best from the talented people who worked for him, that was his job and he did it well.
Because the people are wising up and it's their way of "protecting the brand and image."
Ive has maybe himself to execute...
Removing Forstall was a big mistake...
Beauty is to the eyes of the viewer...I am absolutely disgusted by the Ive's "design".
And even with 20/15 vision, I am still having a painful time to see and use the current Mac OS...
Is it really that freakin' hard to have some more color contrast in the file names?
And why do I have to limit my choices of wallpapers?Oh I dunno... despite Ive's changes my "dark" El Capitan Desktop is looking pretty damn good....
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The point is, it was working fine previously and it is not working right anymore...
What exactly isn't working? I've got around 14 desktops set up across two monitors all with their own wallpaper (not all dark and even if I turn dark off, the menu bar still looks fine, just medium gray instead and the dock isn't as "light" even in "light" mode with darker backgrounds now and is more transparent. The dark mode dock looks like Mountain Lion's dock and the bottom dock looks like Mountain Lion's side dock so there's consistency even if it's not 3D. Besides, it looks quite similar to all docks before Leopard's 3D dock. Some people thought that was stupid looking when it came out too). All the background images "work" fine. Yeah, the new icons aren't great, but unless you make them huge, they aren't that noticeable. Besides, most of my dock icons are 3rd party apps and you should be able to replace the icons if they really bother you. Yosemite's font (I didn't use Yosemite so I can't comment directly except on screenshots) wasn't so great, but I don't have readability issues with El Capitan's font. I don't know how bad the drop shadows were on Yosemite, but I don't have problems telling windows apart either. I do think they should have more of a difference between the windows in terms of the active vs inactive ones.
El Capitan's Mission Control is an improvement over Mavericks (you can see all your windows even if there are multiple windows per App and yet you can switch that back to Mavericks behavior if you prefer it). Dashboard still exists (I was concerned they'd ditch it altogether; I still have some widgets I like to use (iStat Pro and Sloth Cam, the latter viewing the Panama Canal web cams). Notifications new "Today" pane is nice (weather reports and instant calculator access here along with calendar events).
I reorganized my Launchpad setup with all programs in their own folder categories so it's actually easy to find "types" of programs now rather than one giant arse "Applications" folder (I did split "Games" out into its own folder long ago, but some have to be linked from there and that leaves Applications still messy looking). They really should have a tool or preference pane to make organizing faster and easier, though, so it's more usable (I organized it once before, but it broke out of the sub-folders somehow one day).
Launchpad (blurry Katy Perry in background):
I will say Safari constantly nagging me to change it to my default is (bleeping) annoying, though. It's just like Google nagging me to change to Chrome every other visit to their web site. If I wanted to change it, I would change it. How many damn times is it going to ask?
I do also hate the stoplight buttons (the classic "gem" look was so much better), but the world isn't going to end over a button design.
I don't like that it broke some programs (I had to upgrade VMWare Fusion from 5.x to 8 when 5.x was doing what I needed it to do just to play old XP games and despite their claims of speed improvements across generations, it doesn't run XP games any faster that I can tell; now if they added DirectX 11 support for Win7 and newer it would be worthwhile; not much uses DX10 over DX9 compared to DX11 that had a lot of fancy gaming support options. Pinball Arcade is night and day different with DX11, for example). Spotlight seems weird starting in the middle of the screen, but it does provide more information now (you do have to give it time to cache everything when you first upgrade). The disc icons aren't as good as the old ones, but again, the world won't end.
Other than that, I'm hard pressed to think of any other differences I've noticed offhand (I did have problems with the background screens not sticking when I got my 2nd monitor working again; oh yeah that did require me to get a new adapter; Amazon's $10 "Basics" model worked fine, though. I was using some Taiwan cheap thing, but it worked fine in Mavericks). El Capitan feels about the same as Mavericks GUI/speed wise (although XBench says certain things are noticeably slower, but I don't know if I can trust all of the tests at this point since it hasn't been updated in like 9 years!) Metal should hopefully provide a boost to some games at some point (Aspyr has said they may even update some of their older games where it could provide a good boost; I'm hoping for Borderlands 2 to get an update so I can turn up the settings higher).
Honestly, on a day-to-day basis, iOS was the bigger shock since the music player went "bright" and what not and it's hard to look at compared to the old interface for that reason. Icons there are huge and you can't change their size or appearance so ugly icons are more noticeable, etc.
