There was no Model S in 2010 but it is pretty easy to tell the difference between a "2012" Model S (its first year) and a "2020" just by looking at it.
While there certainly haven't been any significant Model S design changes, there have been some.
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Tesla Design Chief on Apple Products: 'There's Nothing to Look Forward To'
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There was no Model S in 2010 but it is pretty easy to tell the difference between a "2012" Model S (its first year) and a "2020" just by looking at it.
While there certainly haven't been any significant Model S design changes, there have been some.
Calm down. It wasn’t directed at you. It was my mistake. I would have removed that post but now you have quoted it.
I'm not the biggest Tim Cook fan, but the AirPods, and the Apple Watch were game changers, especially the Apple Watch as far as health device. Then there is the M series of chips, which flipped the processor industry on its head.
Some other interesting changes happened under him as well, such as forking iOS to create iPadOS.
It's not like Steve came out with innovations every couple of months. But I do agree with you in part - its not as fun when a manager runs Apple, than a person who truly gets and has a vision for technology.
Not only reusable, but they can land! That’s the coolest part!
I agree, sometimes the rumors are more fun than the launches. Or the rumors skew my resentment to a feature “promised” that wasn’t delivered. But they can only innovate and remake an iPhone so many times. As where Tesla, electric car is newish technology now. But soon all their cars with look the same, with minor improvements, with a million other cars doing all the same things.
It’s not though, and most likely never will be but I guess everyone can keep dreaming …
when someone what looks like out of the blue throws out words like that about another company - that tells you something about the professionalism and integrity of that person ...
Hey buddy, stop the sillines. Franz low budget comments are an offense to rational thinking. Have you seen the autopilot in Tesla. It is scary. He is a total idiot.
I just googled that company and I’d say Tesla don’t have much to worry about but we shall see I guess.
pretty much, yes! ? and it was very much out of the blue
i’m not sure i’d go that far though, i mean, he was probably just having a really bad day or something? but still… ?
Also too, it’s possible to pick all the low hanging fruit in a certain sector to where it’s darn near impossible to disrupt anymore?
The world hasn’t “invented” many new standard orchestral instruments in the past 50+ years, has it?
The world hasn’t “invented” many new, original-looking automobiles in the past 10+ years, has it?
The word hasn’t “invented” many tragically original instant classics in the pop music world in the past 15+ years, has it?
Apple smartly exploited the opportunities in the MP3 player, phone, earbud, and laptop hardware areas and hit home runs that still lead today. The Apple Watch is a boon for its health-monitoring aspects. Apple smartly, creatively, and innovatively refined and improved the Windows OS-type interface to where it was once the “it just works” leader. (Now I’m afraid their interfaces are too mired in being fashionably fresh that they’ve lost a lot of the intuitive “it just works”-ness, and hopefully temporarily). CarPlay is pretty darn innovative too (and much better than any hard-wired GPS/infotainment system).
So hopefully there’s still room in the automotive, VR, and who knows what’s next. But it’s awful hard to schedule inventions after a while.
He’s honest about a company that just do minimal design changes,improve their processors, and develop trash software full of bugs. Truth hurts.
Wait.... are you trying to imply that Mercedes interior looks nice? It reminds me of an advanced hot tube with lights and jets everywhere. I'd take the current S interior from a design perspective over the Mercedes (EQS?).
I think he is unaware of the M1 chips and the kind of computing devices they would unlock. He is underestimating the power of low powered chips.
All of you guys bashing on him miss the point. It’s not about aesthetics it’s about innovation and that wow factor Apple used to have under Jobs. It is completely missing under Cook. A new phone every year is not innovating…it’s planned obsolescence. And are you really saying the recent MBP models are innovative in any way other than the new chips. Tesla have been so innovative they single handedly changed the car industry.
i guess not, no.
other than the Cybertruck? no.
yes. do you not listen to new music? lol
Teslas design is the main thing holding me back. I think they get uglier for every model.
Tesla design chief Franz von Holzhausen recently commented on Apple's design principles and product launches, lamenting that Apple doesn't deliver something "to look forward to."
During a podcast interview with Spike Feresten of Spike's Car Radio (via iPhone in Canada and Sawyer Merritt), Holzhausen said that Apple's devices are "just a continuation" and a "slight refinement on the same thing."
He also said that he "hates to say it" but he wears an Apple Watch "just because of the fitness thing side to it. Otherwise I haven't really found much purpose to it, other than the fitness part."
Holzhausen is responsible for designing the Tesla Model S, the Model 3, the Model X, and the Model Y, along with the unreleased Cybertruck. He has been with Tesla since 2008, and before that, he was the chief of design at Mazda and led the design of the Mazda Kabura concept car.
Apple and Tesla have a long history of poaching employees from one another, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has also publicly sniped at Apple. Back in 2015, Musk famously called Apple the "Tesla Graveyard," and claimed that "if you don't make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple."
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I do when forced. Let’s you & me meet in 50 years at a wedding and see if we hear more songs from the 40’s-90’s than 00-20’s….
I’m willing to bet $10 we’ll hear more Earth Wind & Fire before we hear something released in the last 5 months by…hmmm can’t think of anyone noteworthy.
Cybertuck isn’t manufactured yet, doesn’t count.