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Re: Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client

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AMEN. I hope this jagoff's incredibly degrading influence on Apple's products can be reversed.

Yeah, the designer of the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Macbook really tanked the company with those.

Look at Jony's designs, everything from the first iMac to the soon to be released Mac Pro can be boiled down to a rectangle with rounded corners. 20 years of the same core element has caused it to become stale.

Re: Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client

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Given his penchant for thinness over function, I hope this means we can have a thicker pro laptop again, with all the ports back and a more robust keyboard.

I left Apple years ago because of this. Extremes are never good. Hardware was getting thin and UI flat for the sake of looking pretty to the masses. And from what I see things got a bit worse. I actually prefer the aesthetics of early MacBook / MacBook Pro unibody and iPhone SE. And they were a pleasure to use. Good key travel and easy to hold with one hand, respectively. I hope there is a bit of function re-introduc…

My next Mac after my 2013 MacBook Pro finally kicks it will probably be a 2014-2015 MacBook Pro if I can find one. I was issued a brand new MacBook Pro for work and I hate it. Hate the Touch Bar and keyboard and only liked using it docked to a keyboard and external displays.

Re: Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client

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I, even (especially?) as a long-time Apple fanboy, am looking forward to some fresh design blood in the Apple ecosystem. AAPL is down about 1%. So I guess the market values Ive at around $9B? :P

I'd be amazed if the random fluctuation in Apple's stock is less than 1%.

Re: Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client

#85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AMEN. I hope this jagoff's incredibly degrading influence on Apple's products can be reversed.

Yeah, the designer of the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Macbook really tanked the company with those.

Unnecessary ad hominem notwithstanding,

> the designer of the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Macbook

can also be

> degrading the company [paraphrase since the parent has now been flagged]

They're not mutually exclusive.

There's a strong argument that form has undone the function of some of Apple's hardware.

Success in no way precludes the possibility of bad decisions.

Re: Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client

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post #42

Given his penchant for thinness over function, I hope this means we can have a thicker pro laptop again, with all the ports back and a more robust keyboard.

I left Apple years ago because of this. Extremes are never good. Hardware was getting thin and UI flat for the sake of looking pretty to the masses. And from what I see things got a bit worse. I actually prefer the aesthetics of early MacBook / MacBook Pro unibody and iPhone SE. And they were a pleasure to use. Good key travel and easy to hold with one hand, respectively. I hope there is a bit of function re-introduc…

I had company over last night, and brought out my iPhone 4S. I have my current 128GB SE, and we compared them to the iPhone 8 (which the owner’s children referred to as a small phone).

4S was the pinnacle of miniaturization tech. The SE screensize would fit in the 4S form-factor.

Most popular comment was “I can fit this in my pocket.”

Re: Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client

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His work is great aesthetically but I'm guessing there has been some conflict at Apple for him to leave.

I wouldn't be surprised if all the latest Apple problems originated from engineering constraints imposed by his decisions. From the trashcan Mac Pro to the butterfly keyboard.

Re: Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client

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With the iPhone X Apple put serious R&D into a display that folds back on itself for the sole reason that a phone is more ascetically pleasing when the boarders are symmetrical. Even after a year and a half every phone except the iPhone has an asymmetrical chin. Will Apple still be able to make decisions like that without Ive in a leadership position? For Apple's sake I really hope so.

I think the reason why now only the iphone has symmetry is patents.
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