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Design the next iPhone

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Re: Design the next iPhone

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Please don't cheapen manga by associating it with the most valuable tech companies in the world. I don't need that crowding my search results.

Too late, already a thing: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22manga%22+meta+google+amaz...

Still room for discouragement.

https://www.google.com/search?q=manga

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I predict a future iPhone will have the entire back of the phone be a (smudgeproof) camera lens

I seriously see the endgame of iPhone just being a DSLR that can browse the internet.

Just tape a gameboy or switch to a dslr and there’s your kid version

Re: Design the next iPhone

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If this were Google where PMs ran feature development willy-nilly, then I bet this would've been true. Luckily, Apple's design team still has enough pull; so the MBAs haven't taken over everything.

It’s really funny you think the MBAs have less sway at Apple than Google. Apple is a penny-pinching company literally run by a supply chain exec with a Duke MBA. Google is a freewheeling engineer-led culture with zero interest in cost control.

The design team at Apple is still super influential. I should’ve probably clarified in my previous post: I work at Apple and over the years made good friends with writers on the team. We worked very closely in some Siri teams I was on.

Anyways, we still catch up once in a while and from what I gather the design team is truly organized to value the art and outcomes far far more than chasing promotions and titles. As an engineer, I can assure you I feel a very different vibe in the eng org; chasing after promotions is still a part the career “mindset”. Even amongst all my eng friends here. In all fairness though, that’s how all big tech eng teams in the Bay Area or Seattle are organized. Engineers are incentivized to get promoted to dissuade “rest and vest”.

Anyways, my larger point is: yes, design team at apple is def the most powerful and has final say on features. Of course, the MBAs run everything else from financial analysis that determine designers’ raises to operations in the supply chain. Someone’s gotta turn the magic into reality, after all ;)

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Slap the lighting port in the middle of the screen, so you can't use it while charging.

I turned mine into a skateboard for hamsters with 4 pro wheels valued at $600.

Since every human on Earth will soon own an iPhone, it makes sense to go for the pet market.

In hindsight constantly improving the water proofing makes sense. How else will you be able to immerse your goldfish’s iPhone in the tank?

Re: Design the next iPhone

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Beta males mumbling about type-c this, buttons that. Replaceable battery... LOL. Here is what real consumers want: https://i.ibb.co/93dbrmJ/IMG-20220823-223304.jpg

I predict a future iPhone will have the entire back of the phone be a (smudgeproof) camera lens

That's the Light L16

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/4/10/17218758/l...

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