You guys are suffering from a bad case of nostalgia. Subconsciously you are probably relating some unrelated positive emotions from the time you were using OS X tiger as an OS to the OS itself.
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WSJ: Jony Ive Became 'Dispirited' After Apple Watch and Sometimes Failed to Show Up to Meetings
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You guys are suffering from a bad case of nostalgia. Subconsciously you are probably relating some unrelated positive emotions from the time you were using OS X tiger as an OS to the OS itself.
In Silicon Valley it’s a miracle when someone stays at a company for even 10 years. It shouldn’t be a surprise that over the course of time there’s been a lot of turn over.
Too judgmental and too quick to judge are we, now?
I have only stated something that few would disagree with me on. My statement does not mean I am stuck in nostalgia. I loved my Snow Leopard too. And Mojave. And now rocking Catalina beta and looking forward to its release. Come on, man, don’t be too quick to judge.
Well, the fact seems to be that Ive thought Tim is driving Apple against a wall and left. He’s probably right. I can’t believe Cook is still there after all that time.
I meant all-USB-C. It certainly made the design more aesthetically pleasing, and in the case of the MacBook Pro, more symmetric.
Th stock market overall is up because of trade negotiations with China.
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Based on what?
Unless it was updated since your post, it already states “Apple creating a $17,000 gold version and partnering with Hermès”, not “Apple creating a $17,000 gold version with partner Hermès”.
So the article is correct.
Too judgmental and too quick to judge are we, now?
I have only stated something that few would disagree with me on. My statement does not mean I am stuck in nostalgia. I loved my Snow Leopard too. And Mojave. And now rocking Catalina beta and looking forward to its release. Come on, man, don’t be too quick to judge.
You are right but the guy you were quoting was a typical “everything was better 20 years ago” guy.
Amen to this. Steve would've fired Jony's ass for not showing up. Or, more likely, headed that moping off at the pass by providing actual direction -- something that so often missing in the market-driven Apple of today.
I always felt that the gold Apple Watch had Jony Ive written all over it. After all, Ive is a watch guy. He owns an Omega Speedmaster and a Patek Phillippe, so it makes sense that he envisioned the AW as a fashion accessory. However, while many high-end watch collectors won't blink an eye at a $17K mechanical watch, even they couldn't justify spending that kind of money on a device that will be outdated in four years.
Where the AW really woke up the Swiss was with the bands, straps and bracelets. There's no way that the Swiss could produce similar quality for the low cost, including the link bracelet. A Rolex OEM bracelet can run $1500+ and you still need tools to remove links.
It also made the Swiss aware that there is some value in a connected watch as evidenced by Tag Heuer and Mont Blanc, to name two. However, they also realize that this is a very niche market for them.
The AW is beginning to find its niche in health and fitness, which IMO, is a main driver of current sales.
Where the AW really woke up the Swiss was with the bands, straps and bracelets. There's no way that the Swiss could produce similar quality for the low cost, including the link bracelet. A Rolex OEM bracelet can run $1500+ and you still need tools to remove links.
It also made the Swiss aware that there is some value in a connected watch as evidenced by Tag Heuer and Mont Blanc, to name two. However, they also realize that this is a very niche market for them.
The AW is beginning to find its niche in health and fitness, which IMO, is a main driver of current sales.
Personally I think Cook has more integrity than many, and has done a lot better than others would in his position and under the sort of pressure he's been under - it is very unfortunate to hear about the changing makeup of the board though, as this sounds like a recipe for future turbulence, and particularly as more and more of the old guard ride off into the sunset.
This will be the potential issue, are the remaining design teams going to be strong enough to push back when the bean counters say 'no' - to an extent it already looks like they were on the backfoot with a lot of recent decisions.
I guess even among the people for whom $10K is pocket change, generally even they see a timepiece in that price range as an investment that will hold value, not something that's going to be worthless after a few years and dropped OS support... Also I don't think Apple, as high end as they are, have quite the same cachet as a Patek Philippe.
Personally I think Ive’s best work is behind him. He iterated some designs to dead ends (because they are so good) and unfortunately the consumer tech world appears to have tapped out all the obvious innovation paths given current component capabilities.
It is a shame he didn’t walk sooner as Apple started to move away from being a user experience driven company to an accountant led, overpriced, techno-tart one.
It is a shame he didn’t walk sooner as Apple started to move away from being a user experience driven company to an accountant led, overpriced, techno-tart one.
Perhaps a bit, but the older versions of OS X had more character. The newer trend of muting colors, decreasing contrast, making things minimal is just bland and boring. I liked the glossy scrollbars, and the colorful sidebar icons. Tiger was good, but personally I feel that the pinnacle of Mac OS UI was Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard had all the character of previous version, but was streamlined and did away with the pinstriping. Lion is when the skeuomorphism started to disappear, colors started to be removed, and the flatness trend started being persued.
Gosh mine has never been quiet. In order to keep the SSD from failing I have to run Mac Fan Control at full speed.
Absolutely agree with everything. You pretty much read my mind about the Tim Cook era Apple.
Bonus points for the Messi analogy - read my mind twice in one post.
When Steve Jobs was around to question everything and to advocate for the user experience, Jony Ive had a great client and his talents were pointed in the right direction. A designer needs a good client. Without Jobs, well, it seems like Ive sort of checked out, and the design vocabulary of Apple really reflects that. We've gotten half-baked things like the Touch Bar -- a design looking for a problem to solve. Or crummy shortcuts like keyboards that don't feel like keyboards (and break easily). Dead end machines like the trash can Mac Pro. Desktop Macs (new Mac Pro aside) whose design hasn't really been touched in the better part of a decade.