For all the people who want Tim Cook and Jony Ive to leave Apple, who should take their place?
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Mysterious Apple Park Arch is for a May 17 Event Celebrating Steve Jobs and Formal Apple Park Opening
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For all the people who want Tim Cook and Jony Ive to leave Apple, who should take their place?
It had to be just right to create those sparkly rainbow reflections in different parts of the main building. Per the quotes from Ive in the article.
I don't know about Ive but we need someone like Satya Nadella to replace Tim Cook.
Tim is making useless interviews, lying about security and hyping up numbers, also Tim is very busy with his political campaigns, after that then he goes duck hunting
"Hey Jony wanna work on the Mac Pro?" "No, sorry I'm busy with the colored rainbow stage, still got months of work left on that.
We have one of those in my country, I bet ours didn't took months from concept to reality. That tree though, that's still a work in progress.
Oh, and I thought it was all securely glued together. Who would need to take apart such a well designed object like this. /s
Way way overengineered for what it is. Very Johnny Ive. The billionaire who cost me a thousand dollars in iPhone repairs because his ****** back glass can’t be replaced without replacing the whole goddamn phone. Never again.
It took Jony Ive's design team months to design a series of rainbow arches. They over-engineered it so hard that a series of six flat, solid-colored arches is built with 25,000 parts. Let that sink in.
Meanwhile they can't even design a working keyboard.
It's no wonder they're losing team members right and left. Hopefully this celebration of Steve Jobs is about his FOCUS because he was pretty freaking good at that.
Meanwhile they can't even design a working keyboard.
It's no wonder they're losing team members right and left. Hopefully this celebration of Steve Jobs is about his FOCUS because he was pretty freaking good at that.
[doublepost=1557466105][/doublepost]Hey netsped, at least your country got the correct colors, and in the correct order. I suspect Mr. Ives has never actually seen a rainbow.We have one of those in my country, I bet ours didn't took months from concept to reality. That tree though, that's still a work in progress.
Lets not forget this gem:
For Apple's new headquarters, a door handle took more than a year to design.
Mac Pro? Nah, need to do door handles for a year.
I miss the sharp focus and leadership from Jobs
For Apple's new headquarters, a door handle took more than a year to design.
Mac Pro? Nah, need to do door handles for a year.
I miss the sharp focus and leadership from Jobs
Lets not forget this gem:
For Apple's new headquarters, a door handle took more than a year to design.
Mac Pro? Nah, need to do door handles for a year.
I miss the sharp focus and leadership from Jobs
Seems like a legitimate source.
The rainbow arch really is a beautiful design and construction. So thin and elegant yet able to withstand the weather. And Apple Park campus is breathtaking... in perfect harmony with the nature around it and within it! I agree with an earlier post, that things look so simple and obvious because we are looking at the final solution, which has been distilled from months/years of research, design and planning.
Good job it was not make by another company and Apple could not take it apart as it was glued together, and instructions on how to do it were not made available to anyone else.
I think it’s always nice to celebrate Steve, but this seems like a bad PR. I wonder how long are they going to milk Steve’s legacy? They should go back to drawing boards and celebrate his legacy by making great products. Not spend “months of work” on a rainbow stage. I mean who are they kidding to? There was a Christmas tree, soap dispenser, Leica camera, etc. Jony and Tim really should just go.
You know, what this reminds me? I've seen some documentaries on why Nokia went down, and one of the reasons was the incredibly long time it took for them to make any decision on anything inside the company- I see it in Apple too. They are monumentally slow on making any decision and while they contemplate about design or technology or anything, other companies just rockets by them. And don't start with " they want to make sure they give their best product and experience" . This stage could be designed by a 6th grader during lunch brake, grown men just wanted to make this absolutely unimportant installation is something big and important...
It had to be just right to create those sparkly rainbow reflections in different parts of the main building. Per the quotes from Ive in the article.
Actually, “per the quotes”, Ive said that happened by chance, wasn’t planned.
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So what? Jobs was just a guy, not some sort of God how many people seems to want to think about him. In his career he screwed up way more than Cook. I remember the first intel MacBook, discolouring top case, it used to go from white to yellow, I had to change it 3 times during the lifespan of the machine, at my expenses. The same machine also has this nice software but that could cause 10 random restart per day making the machine useless. They fixed after 18 month, silently, without admitting fault, 18 month for a severe software bug, and people whine about keyboards.
Jobs was also the *******, when his team screwed with iPhone 4 antenna design, pretended the users were holding the phone...how silly, patronizing and dumb is that? Stuff a 11 years old (stupid) kids would say. Jobs wanted Apple to own the native apps and expects everyone else to make subpar web app, it had to be convinced by other that it made sense to let developers create their own apps (revolutionary right), if it was only for him perhaps there would be no App Store.
People make fun of the HomePod today, perhaps they don’t remember the astonishing success of Job’s iPod Hi-Fi, dead after 6 months. And the price? Same of the HomePod but it was just a dumb and cheaply built speaker, sound quality compared to HomePod was **** and build too.
The wonderful Mighty Mouse from Jobs era? The track ball stopped working every 6 months because of dirt...exactly like the current keyboard lol, except they never fixed it.
Seems to be Apple is quite following in Job’s footsteps
Other Job’s epic fails? Apple Lisa, Mackintosh TV, Apple g4 cube, recruiting John Sculley. Should I continue?
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"It sounds like the rainbow arch won't be a permanent fixture at the campus, but will be able to be removed and put back up for various events hosted at Apple Park."
Jony's going to store it in his attic, next to the Christmas tree decorations.
Jony's going to store it in his attic, next to the Christmas tree decorations.
This is the way it works in most businesses for even the largest projects (building a stage is not a large project):-
Month 1: Idea - a couple of weeks thought/discussion/"conceptualizing"
Month 2: Basic plans/sketches/gantt charts - say a week's actual work
Month 3: Refinement - another week
Month 4: Hand-off to more junior staff to implement. Supervision of same, couple of revisions, a day a week maybe
Month 5: Liaison with delivery agents, maybe a few hours a week
Month 6: Supervision of delivery, probably ramps back up to a couple of days a week
Month 2: Basic plans/sketches/gantt charts - say a week's actual work
Month 3: Refinement - another week
Month 4: Hand-off to more junior staff to implement. Supervision of same, couple of revisions, a day a week maybe
Month 5: Liaison with delivery agents, maybe a few hours a week
Month 6: Supervision of delivery, probably ramps back up to a couple of days a week
Stretch time/effort dependent on size of project.
So "months of work" actually means "a reasonable amount of work spread over several months whilst we also do a bucket-load of other things"
In any organisation the senior leadership team would rarely have only one project soaking up all their time - and that would usually be a "rescue" project - an indicator of a business being in serious trouble as a whole.
Can't help but think their arch is representative for the new Apple: pretty but with little utility.
There are spaces between the rainbow components, so it doesn't provide any kind of protection from excessive sun, rain etc.
Does anyone in product design at Apple get out of their air conditioned and filtered office any more? Judging by the current MBPro keyboard, or this stage, not really.
There are spaces between the rainbow components, so it doesn't provide any kind of protection from excessive sun, rain etc.
Does anyone in product design at Apple get out of their air conditioned and filtered office any more? Judging by the current MBPro keyboard, or this stage, not really.
Looking at the parched lawns, I suspect excessive sun will be more of a problem than excessive rain.
Probably, as I'm pretty sure they don't test phones in the cold.
Anyway, i don't see Apple employees working outside in that huge park because the current laptops can't survive in a environment where there's dust. Not even the newly protected 2018 keyboard, I have one of those and I'm already getting doubled keys because I have the audacity of using my laptop in the balcony. It isn't even 6 months old. I've used macbooks in this balcony since 2010 and none had any keyboard problems... until this one.