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Jony Ive's Design Team Nixed Apple Watch Band With Sensors
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Funny, the only part of my watch that doesn't function well has nothing to do with bands or sensors....it's the S chip that makes everything run slower than molasses.
Getting the Windows 10 update on Windows 7 Enterprise?
I don't want to disappoint you, but you are not using Windows 7 Enterprise.
I can see how that would not be obvious to many people.
Some people may see a smartwatch and think it would be a great idea to move some of the functionality to the hand to work around the space constraints in the watch casing. Let's out extra battery in the strap! Extra health sensors! Seems like a clever engineering solution.
Until they realise that by doing so, they are indirectly forcing their users to have to make a conscious tradeoff between a band which may look like crap but has potentially useful features, vs another band which looks better but has no functionality. It's not a choice people should have to make, but this line of thinking may not be immediately obvious to the engineer working in a bubble.
In short, design and engineering go hand in hand, and neither is more important than the other, IMO. As the saying goes, easy to say, difficult to understand the essence of.
I am. I couldn't update earlier because it 'Wasn't possible to update Enterprise editions', and all of the sudden, the last day for the freebie update, it said 'Get Windows 10 before the price increase', and I did, and it did, and now I'm sorry for it...
I don't know why it let me do the update, but I did it. Bugger... Some 'gift'... And I can't go back, from what I've heard.
That's a one-sided view, much like the opposing view from a design basis.
I design product and I design it from scratch with both considerations in mind. The size, shape, what's saleable comes first, the concept if you will - then you start making it work as best it can - IF a cosmetic design element is restricting the performance then you go back and re-appraise, alter, adjust or sometimes even redesign completely. Good design is mixing engineering, cosmetic design, form and function until they're all working cohesively as well as can be for the concept.
I don't, however, think Apple have been as good at all this recently as they once were. Many competitor's phones (ignoring the watch for now) are looking better, feeling better and offering more. Not just Samsung as the main competitor but even the Chinese copycat brands are starting to "out-Apple" Apple. -
Both of these from the main Chinese players (Huawei and Meizu) address the same issues as Apple with regard to "thinness", antenna bands and camera bumps (or lack of on the Huawei's dual lens offering) and do so in a similar (copycat) way - but arguably do a better job of it than the iP7 leaks have shown Apple to be doing.
The physical design of the once great iPhone 3G, 4 and 5 seems to have been lost in the 6 and proposed 7 for the purpose of thinness over all else, looking at the whole seems to be being overlooked for that one detail.
iOS is still just about slicker than Android but it's much closer than it was, iOS is starting to get more awkward and cluttered yet still not offering much user-adjustability into the bargain, Android has been getting far more refined.
I just think Apple need a kick up the backside somehow or they will start to suffer. Many a large company have let complacency be the death (or at least wounding) of them by thinking they can do no wrong and don't need to keep ahead of the game. That loyal fans will just buy anything with their logo...
That Huawei phone looks hideous and the Meizu is basically an iPhone 6. They even copied the colors. Great innovation and design by those companies.
Both look better than the leaked iPhone 7, I'm sorry but your fanboy is showing.
Touche. Which one is your favourite out of the 2? The one from company I never heard of or the one from another broke Android partner.
Oh I don't care who makes them and won't be buying one, I just find it sad that Apple's once great design (part of what propelled them to where they are now) is seemingly disappearing while other companies either copy and improve or just make better looking devices. I don't just mean visual design either but ergonomically too, things that USED to be very important to Apple but it seems it's all watch straps now.
So why is every company copying apples design, be it phones, laptops and now even the watch?. Please enlighten me
Popularity, they see Apple as the most popular brand so try to emulate it. It's not rocket science.
Does that mean Apple can do no wrong in your eyes? Do you think the iPhone 7 (based on leaks) is a great design?
They are not just copying because of polarity, they are copying because apple is setting the bar for quality and they are all desperately trying to catch up.
Design is objective and yes apple can do wrong, plenty. I do really like the iPhone 6 design, so yeah I am quite happy they kept it. Its my favourite out off all of them so far (not for things like thickness just design and looks).