iOS7. What more needs to be said about Ives when left to his own devices. And by his own devices of course I mean jobs and Forstalls devices. Stick to the pretty box Ives, know your limits.
What have you ever done other than snarked in the internet?
Apple Designer Jonathan Ive Talks About Steve Jobs and New Products
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iPhone 4 was pretty terrible at being a cell phone.
I used one for 2 years and now my wife uses it every day. What's supposed to be wrong with it?
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#103I love the difference in rhetoric when things are written about Ive compared to Jobs. It's subtle, but shows how much we throw around credit:
"Ive helped transform computing" vs "Jobs transformed computing"
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Honestly, I think Apple makes stellar products (I won't use them because of IP issues, but they're still incredible produts) but talk like that - claiming your competition doesn't give a crap and is just throwing shoddy goods out the door? It reeks of desperation. Android has its faults, but it would be absurd to say that Google doesn't care about the platform. The Nexus line itself demonstrates that they want these…
Exaggeration perhaps, but hardly desperation. The thing is Google and many of the Android device manufacturers really do thow shoddy goods out the door. not always, not every product, not every time, but embarrassingly often. Anyone remember the first generation Google TV boxes with unusable UIs in which vital controls would be completely hidden by other UI elements, rendering the whole thing essentially unusable? Ev…
was it maps?
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#105Who is stealing from whom? Herr Dieter Rams would like to know.
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#106Sooooooooo... "We’re surrounded by anonymous, poorly made objects. It’s tempting to think it’s because the people who use them don’t care — just like the people who make them." I am certainly a big believer in "giving a damn" about design and code. I completely believe that people "feel" the care that went into a product. I myself have agonized over a detail without any direct evidence that anyone, anywhere, would ev…
> Apple's communications are borderline dismissive to people who are less fortunate and less lucky.
I couldn't disagree more. I think it's condescending to treat less fortunate people differently this way. Almost everyone aspires to someday have all the nice fancy things they want. The worst thing a maker of premium products can do is apologize for making premium products. People want to believe someday they will be able to have all the nice fancy things. They don't want to be told essentially 'sorry you are too poor to buy my product. you'll probably never be able to afford them"
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#107Let us not forget, he designed the "Puck Mouse" that came with the iMac and G3 towers...
what have you designed?
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Ive actually doesn't know as much about proper design beyond the computing field; his horribly disfigured Leica M design is proof of that. Recessed dials? A photographer wouldn't be caught dead without quick access to ISO, aperture values, shutter speed, and exposure metering/bracketing. Fumbling around with fingernails inside a recessed dial is the last thing you want to do when a child is running between two trees…
That camera is rather ugly indeed, but as an (non digital) M owner: > Recessed dials? A photographer wouldn't be caught dead without quick access to ISO, aperture values, shutter speed, and exposure metering/bracketing. Plenty of cameras that photographers use don’t have direct access to many of those settings. > Fumbling around with fingernails inside a recessed dial is the last thing you want to do when a child is…
I'm sorry micampe, but that's total crap. As the parent comment said, Leica cameras are very much designed to be used, they were the photojournalist's top choice for decades. Recessed dials is moronic. If Ive can't design a Leica that can actually be functional then it doesn't speak very highly for his product design skills.
If you had used a Leica M you wouldn't be spouting such nonsense about f/8 and hyperfocal.
the H5D? that bears not a single resemblance to a Leica M (non digital), it's a digital, autofocus medium format SLR, as opposed to a film, manual focus, 35mm rangefinder.
A competent photographer would get that shot using either an M or H5D, it's the amateurs with no idea that miss shots.
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>> "Macbooks, while still elegant, haven't had a major design update since 2009." The retina display and removal of optical disk drives are pretty major design updates. The screen is arguably the most important part of a laptop and making it retina while still maintaining good battery life is a huge deal.
By design I mean their physcial look and feel, the industrial design. They are starting to look stale.
What the hell? Fingers off my beloved MacBook! They spent so much time perfecting it (and continue doing so). I want Apple to do that, not flashy fashion bullshit.
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> Apple's communications are borderline dismissive to people who are less fortunate and less lucky I'd agree if we were in a 3rd world country somewhere, but we (probably both) aren't. People who need to save $200 on a tablet where we live very likely do not need said tablet at all. In the end we just often buy inferior products (in design, functionality and longevity) in order to be able to purchase a larger total n…
On the other hand, my ASUS tablet I bought over two years ago, the first generation of its kind, still works as well as it did then, which is pretty damn good, while the macbook pro I was inflicted with for work crashes regularly (as in "spinning rainbow/beachball of doom my screen is frozen I have to hard-reset" crashes). But that sleek aluminum case sure looks nice (to some--to me it looks a bit like its trying too…
Uh, that's not a crash. That's a sign you need to either do your spring cleaning better, or take it to your IT guy and find out what's hanging.
My first guess: your disk is nearly full. This will choke any machine.