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Longtime Industrial Designer Leaving Apple's Design Team
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It's not about what can and what can't you do, it's also about the really high price for 3 years old hardware and Apple tell ppl that this is best workhorse...bla bla...have a look what kind of computer you can get for the same money at the moment and you can make a hackintosh or install whatever you want. Mac Pro is still nice but 100% not for the money. Apple rip you off.
More than likely he already made his millions and just wants to enjoy life while he still can. Many people retire everyday. I wouldn't try to read too much into it.
You never know, maybe he had a phobia for donut-shaped buildings. For the life of me I can't figure out why it is supposed to be so wonderful. But the truth of the matter is, we have no idea why this industrial designer, about whom we know very little beyond what he worked on 5 or 10 years ago (new designs presumably not yet released), is leaving Apple. But it's probably not because of too few design constraints.
Aside From the sarcasm, what does "Nice" have anything to do with Tim Cook, let alone him being a CEO? There is no correlation to that and this article.
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Cook told him to quit creating and just come up with more cool looking ways to put ads in front of people.
Yeah, maybe ithings also get boring after 5, err 10, I mean 20 years, sigh. Maybe that is why things at Apple are not running as smoothly anymore, everyone burned out, and fresh idea not getting approved by old "top" management, ...
Any designer who wants to put his Stamp on the world and works under Jony will have to leave at some point. Jony has a large shadow. You can always after the NDA ends say I worked on this or on That and your name might show up on one or the other Patent Filings but Jony's light will always shin brighter so this can be a career move or the end of the line depending on where you end up going.
seriously - for 3 years they havent done any new design work for the iphone.
don't expect anything much different than the samsung 8
Keep workers in check. Making sure osx and ios isnt filled creepy crawlers. Making sure ceo keeps mac desktop in check
Modern graphics cards, especially since so much pro software utilizes GPUs. Compare a GTX 1080 with the ATI cards in a MP. Intel, on the other hand, hasn't done as much on the CPU side of things.
I also think the form factor is ill suited for a pro-level machine. The old tower was much more expandable and upgradable, which are things pros like/need to do.
It wouldn't surprise me if Apple phases out of the pro market entirely, and starts using their inhouse A-series chips for consumer Macs. In a few more generations, they'll probably run circles around Intel's low end chips.
I think one word Steve would detest the use of to describe him would be "nice". Nice is such a vanilla term. Steve was anything but vanilla.
Also, parking in handicap spaces for the hell of it (as Steve is known to have done for a long time before he got sick) is anything but "nice".
Yes what worked for Apple when Steve was alive and what will work without his oversight are two completely different teams. The ability to sit back and take Steve's all or nothing attitude for years, then all of a sudden have to stand up on your own requires two different mindsets.
So I think Jobs picked exactly the right people for Apple when he was leading it, and exactly the wrong people for after he left.
Minimal personal credit, big money and time in service. Time to leave. How about a really nice going away party?
It's all part of the plan. Apple was afraid with him still around, the next Mac update would've been TOO awesome! Got to tone it down a bit!
