How Tim Cook transformed Apple after Steve Jobs

Post by yourapostasy » Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 2:09 AM UTC

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"Farag recalls a prototype presentation meeting with Jobs where he and the design team presented possibilities for what would be the next Apple mouse. The team had several versions to show Steve, some of which "were fully done, with all the parting lines cut in for buttons and different plastic parts, and all the colors just right," according to Farag. At the last moment the team decided to include a prototype that e…

Believe me or not. Big retailers don't like Bluetooth mouses because they have huge returns from them. Usually they will place a few unconspiciously in the corner, but otherwise give most of shelf space to non-bt mouses. Why so? People can't freaking press the PAIR button, even if you slap a big red sticker on it. This is also the reason retailers insist on having batteries inserted into the mouse at factory, or have…

Post by Wowfunhappy » Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 2:19 AM UTC

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> It is rumoured that Apple put the charging port in such an awkward place to force people to unplug the cable as soon as the mouse is charged. You say this as if it's absolutely typical of Steve Jobs. I read it and think exactly the opposite. Jobs was certainly a stickler for aesthetics, but also for usability. I've read numerous accounts of him lashing out when he found a workflow noticeably frustrating. What decis…

Did you ever use an original iMac? That mouse would create RSI just looking at it. Their keyboards got progressively worse as well. Another great example was the iBooks that soaked up skin oils and became gross and disgusting.

Post by culopatin » Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 2:23 AM UTC

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It's not a forced dark pattern. Others are leaving out a lot of detail about the product design. * The mouse supports fast charging - 2mins on the charger gives you all day use. * A full charge will give you more than 2mo of battery life - nearly 3. * In 24 months, you will have to put it on the charger between 6 and 8 times TOTAL. With that context, the design makes perfect sense for a wireless mouse.

This still sounds pointlessly inconvenient compared to a wired mouse, not to mention reliability and latency issues that come part and parcel with wireless peripherals. I tried a wireless keyboard once and every 10 minutes it would hang and repeat the last key I pressed for 10 seconds. How much better is the situation today?

Post by giantrobot » Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 2:30 AM UTC

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I thought the reason (for the one-button mouse) was so that you'd never have to think about which button to click.

"Farag recalls a prototype presentation meeting with Jobs where he and the design team presented possibilities for what would be the next Apple mouse. The team had several versions to show Steve, some of which "were fully done, with all the parting lines cut in for buttons and different plastic parts, and all the colors just right," according to Farag. At the last moment the team decided to include a prototype that e…

Post by DaiPlusPlus » Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 2:38 AM UTC

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For what it's worth, I don't think Steve Jobs would have ever allowed the charging port for the Magic Mouse to ever be on the bottom and forced the user to have to leave the mouse on it's side to charge.

I don’t know, I feel like Steve Jobs hated mice in general, or at least didn’t understand the use of them. Look at the “puck“ for example.