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Jony Ive Was Involved in the New M1 iMac Design, Despite Leaving Apple in 2019
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Not surprising since we got a thin machine with no ports where as most wanted a thick machine with no bezel and ports
I wonder if there is a degree of envy of Jony Ive here. He designed most/all of the Apple devices that have become iconic worldwide. He’s a fantastic designer and was instrumental in Apple coming back from near-bankruptcy to the $2 trillion company it is today.
Except the original iMacs came in colors. As did the iBook. iPods came in colors. iPhone 5C, iPhone XR.
So Ive, who is no longer an Apple employee, is able to dictate the thickness of a device over the engineers? John Ternus (who’s the new SVP of hardware) has no say in how Apple’s products are designed? He and the engineers just takes orders from designers?
Perhaps, yes. This thinking has been apples mo since forever.
Well that explains why I hated these new iMacs when they came out... He never had a decent design in my opinion...
Source? This is the entry level iMac. How many are complaining about an entry level computer they were never going to buy in the first place?
They show it on, displaying screen saver, with no power cord.
Sorry don’t buy it. Designers aren’t telling the leader of hardware engineering how many ports can be on a machine.
No Apple products in the past 27 years had a decent design? Seriously?
As I said, I don’t know about now - but a quick look into apples history and that’s exactly how it’s been before.
What consumer cares that their machine is a little thicker? Now how many people do you think would like no bezel?
Considering his overall contributions, his "mistakes" are dwarfed by the contributions.
Jobs was famous for demanding the engineers fit into the design and not the other way around. It’s why we have beautiful computers with apparently strange engineering choices (according to some)
It certainly is a mistake and impacts everyone who uses a butterfly keyboard every day. Worst keyboard I have ever used.
Where would you put the headphone jack, in the back so it is harder to reach?
Power brick outside is better for the life of the computer.
Bezels are a nice grey, not white.
I know people who like(d) the butterfly keyboard, but I admit there was some bad press about it. But that really wasn't the point of my post. IMO, people grow by making mistakes and trying new things. (except for those who are not capable of learning and keep repeating the same mistakes)
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Have to say I liked it. Never any problems for me (or, let’s face it, the majority of the millions of people that have one). Same with the Touch Bar. Macrumours isn’t the real world.
The thinner at all costs screamed Jony. He ruined apple.
Not sure why I need to know who designed, engineered, marketed, Apple Products. They meet my needs or they do not.
Apple is far from ruined.
The design screams Ive, but the 7 colors do not. He would not have been involved in anything but the “design in white” and probably wouldn’t have approved of the color chin being visually wider than the screen.