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Jony Ive Says Holding Onto Features When There's a 'Better Way' is 'Path That Leads to Failure'
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I had a harder time finding the iPhone 7 Plus at Christmas last year (still ~5.5 weeks away) and that’s considering the 7 launched in September (1.5 months earlier than the X).
I honestly wonder how well they’re selling.
Read my reply in context and you will understand what "better" meant.
Sorry that some of us would like control over their home screen of their phone...
The point is, all their ideas are great...until they're not.
When they took away the pivot arm on the iMac, does that mean it's better without a pivot? And if it's better without a pivot, why did they create it in the first place?
Just like icon design...it's 3D, no wait it's flat! No wait, 3D is back in again!
See my point?
It's change for change's sake...and to keep you buying the new stuff...
You're right, it's not clutter free. And I don't believe folders are the right solution either. But I rely on Spotlight Search and Hey Siri to open anything that's not on my main screen.
By the time apple dropped the floppy it was already replaced by zip & disc drives. Likewise when they dropped the disc drive, it had been replaced by external hdd, cloud & streaming services.
Nothing has replaced headphones, wireless versions are still a niche that trades wires for battery charge management & poorer sound quality. Hence removing the jack was just a dick move. Same goes for the ports, they didn't give anytime for usb-c to get traction before burning the usb bridge. While hdmi is the AV standard so losing that port was another dick move to sell dongles. Ditto the card reader.
Nothing has replaced headphones, wireless versions are still a niche that trades wires for battery charge management & poorer sound quality. Hence removing the jack was just a dick move. Same goes for the ports, they didn't give anytime for usb-c to get traction before burning the usb bridge. While hdmi is the AV standard so losing that port was another dick move to sell dongles. Ditto the card reader.
I still hate that they removed the headphone jack. I record meetings from time to time, but I never ever have those lightning earbuds handy. So then I can't listen back to the meetings that I recorded, which is a major pain in the ass at work.
You know, that's a good sign that they ditch their ideas, not a bad one. Some companies will refuse to let go - see Microsoft's Metro/Modern UI for an example. About design, it was skeumorphic, flat, and now raised. It's not really back and forth but UI design is a lot like fashion in that way. Back to Metro/Modern UI, MS actually got it right going for flat design before the rest of the pack, but they refuse to move forward.
I disagree with the motives, it's no different than any other company in any other industry.
Ivy and Cook better not die, because Steve Jobs is waiting for them, and they gonna pay.
Hell, Apple was one of the first companies to move to widgets...it's something I'd have expected them to do.
It's interesting because last year people were saying the same thing about the 7 selling poorly on these boards.
Will be interesting to see the future products that are currently in their pipeline. I think despite the gamble, Apple did well with the X, even with the opposing opinions and possible bad press of a few minor issues.
I have no idea if you are agreeing with me, or disagreeing with me
I really don't have to do either, lol. Believe it or not I'm very open minded about how things can be done, I really don't waste a lot of time complaining about things either. I certainly wouldn't go to a forum that discusses a product I don't like and spend all day trying to tell people they're stupid or fanboys or whatever, like some people here. That's a sad, sad existence.
Does than mean Ive is criticizing Apple for holding onto the poor Mac Pro no update design for so long?
To sum it up, Ive likes to leave things "on the cutting room floor". Honestly, I love that approach.
Wrong guess, all the adapter does is change the plug to the much more common USB-A. There are no components inside it that would be consuming power, hence why it is only $8 (and I would guess costs no more than $3 per unit to make).
Definitely!! Because a month backorder is a sure sign that sales are "waning"... Absolutely man! /S
These types of statements always amuse me. Since when can any electronics company force somebody to do something? Do you not have options as a consumer with different Products? Furthermore, please elaborate where Apple is failing as a company based on one anecdotal opinion on a tech forum.
more like— the MR armchair designers are out in full force today.
The sentiment is definitely right, though they don't always apply it well. Shoddy keyboards on MacBook Pros, HDDs in 2017 Macs, removing MagSafe etc.