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Jony Ive Returns To Apple Design Management Role After Two Years (9to5mac.com)
Zac Hall, writing for 9to5Mac: Jony Ive, Apple's chief design officer, is returning to his management role within Apple's design group after handing off managerial duties in 2015. 9to5Mac noted that Ive's design deputies Dye and Haywarth were no longer listed on Apple's leadership page earlier today.
I'm greatly looking forward to a future full of function-follows-form from the good ol' days!
I'm getting worried about Apple. I'm feeling more and more of the moz://a vibe from it.
By that I mean we're seeing Apple do more and more things that they want to do, rather than giving customers what the customers desire.
We've seen moz://a do this with Firefox. While Firefox was initially developed in a way that benefited users, and provided them with a superior browser, over time we've seen the opposite happen. Changes have been made to Firefox not based on any demand or desire from users, but rather just because moz://a wants to force through their own ideas an initiatives. The end result has been disastrous: users have fled Firefox, moving to browsers that actually prioritize giving a good user experience. Firefox's share of the market has dropped from 35% down to 5%, and this has effectively made moz://a irrelevant. Worse, we've seen one failure after another (Firefox OS, Rust, Servo, Persona, Hello, Pocket, etc.) when it comes to moz://a's attempts at creating new products and offerings.
I fear that the same thing is starting to happen to Apple. I think they may have lost focus on the user, and are now going down the same path that moz://a did, of doing what they (Apple or moz://a) want to do, instead of what the customers/users want to be done.
Please, Apple, learn from moz://a's mistakes! Don't become what they become! Put the focus back on the customers and what the customers actually want, rather than trying to force agendas or initiatives on the customers!
I hope that this development helps put an end to the moz://a-fication that I think we've seen start to happen. Apple needs to return to its early 2000s roots, where the seeds of its most recent success were planted. The needs and wants of the users need to be the primary focus again.
Ah yes. The man responsible for Macbooks with non-replaceable storage (nice if the motherboard fails), soldered RAM, irremovable (glued!) batteries. And iMacs with screens stuck with strong sticky tape over the vital parts (needs a pizza roller to remove).
Oh wait! And Apple's Time Capsule. Nice little router with storage built in. Should be easy enough to remove the hard drive when it fails, right? Wrong.
You can get to the drive by popping off the bottom cover, but Apple routed wires under the drive. Disconnecting some of the wires is virtually guaranteed to break their connectors. Apple saved 50 cents and made the thing extremely hard to fix.
All hail Jony Ive, the king of user-hostile design.
During the past couple years when Apple has come out with laptops without the ports I need, or phones without headphone jacks - I figured it was Jony Ive's fault. So was it actually these other guys making those decisions?
#DeleteChrome
mac pro 2018 with non replaceable storage = no go unless apple wants to be the one that leaks that new movie when it's in's in post.
What do the customers desire? Apple is the world biggest company with no sign of slowing.
Apples early 2000s roots.
Colorful boxes on slow processors, with all in one systems making repairs difficult, and removal of the beloved Floppy drive, and an option to add one with a USB dongle.
Or on the pro-line you have system that look much like they do today, with more or less the same manageability and upgradability.
Apple had dumped OS 9 and remade it scratch for OS X which didn't mature until the mid 2000's. While its Unix core made geeks like us, find it useful for real work, but being a desktop OS with some market behind it, made it a good compromise between a Linux and a Windows box. It success was driven by Microsoft failing, and having a number of major security and reliability problems. combined with the fact that PC Maker were playing the race to the bottom, where they kept on making cheaper and cheaper devices. Which made Apple who wasn't playing that game look good. Because while the others were shoving out crap, Apple had a good quality product.
I actually don't see much of a difference. The biggest thing is now Apple is in the #1 spot, and has massive influence.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Given their recent passwordless root entry debacle, maybe they should be focusing on hiring high profile QA engineers... ref: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
OS X was a mature product from the beginning, thanks to its NeXTSTEP heritage. It already had many years of work and usage by the time it became OS X.
Well, I guess everything is going to get even flatter and less serviceable and upgradable.
The new 2018 MacBook Pro will have only one port called the USB-C-Flat and the case will be made of two-ply aluminum foil because everyone needs to keep their Mac in a manilla envelope. The entire machine will be made with a new revolutionary lamination process because pentalobe screws are ugly. The keyboard won't have actual keys of instead be a silkscreen over a giant touch pad. Yes, the keyboard and the touch pad will merge into one gloriously flat surface. The CPU, GPU, and RAM will be laminated into the aluminum and the whole case will become a giant glorious heatsink eliminating the needs for any fans. The battery will be a next generation ultra flat non-liquid electrolyte design. The entire $2000 compute can be recycled after two years by running it through a shredder and you can purchase another one.
Then Lenovo, HP, ASUS, and Acer will all copy this stupid new design,
I would so much like to be the head of design at Apple. I would make cool, modular stuff and there would be a Phat-Book Pro!
Johnny your ruining the laptop design world, please retire. It's time.
Apple won't let you see it up close, but you can get a really good bird eye's view using Google Maps.
#DeleteFacebook
Face recognition sounds a decision made in these two years. It is not mature enough and convenient enough. Touch ID still rocks.
^(oo)^pig~
Please, Apple, learn from moz://a's mistakes! Don't become what they become! Put the focus back on the customers and what the customers actually want, rather than trying to force agendas or initiatives on the customers!
Hm. I wonder if "listening to the customer" is always 100% infallible advise.
Time for a car analogy: Let's say one makes cars. And if you listen TOO much to your customers, you'll end up with the Pontiac Aztek (poster kid of what happens when a car is designed by focus groups) or Homer's Percephone. The brutal truth is most customer's don't *know* what they want.
Prove me wrong. Just because a tech minority knows what we want doesn't mean ALL customers know. Most of them don't.. and they don't care. They think their neat idea should be implemented, even if it's the most bone-headed mistake possible.
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
Missing apostrophe and it should be 'ed', not 's'. Such slack editing.
Unless you're being sarcastic... I don't know why you would think that's in the cards; Jony Ive is the villain that took away the beautiful icons iOS and OS X / MacOS used to have and replaced them with dull, flat, information-culled pastels reminiscent of an interior decorator's shart, not to mention being the conceptual guy who was in authority when the clueless process that brought us the abortion that is the "trashcan" Mac Pro went down.
Unless he's been off recovering from a head injury, this appears to bode very poorly for the future of everything Apple.
It's looking more and more like a big windows tower lurks in my future. Damn it.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
I decided to hold my breath for this a few years ago. Did you know that after you pass out you start breathing again?
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
Fa'ster hor'se's.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
"To think nothing of symmetry and much of convenience; never to remove an anomaly merely because it is an anomaly; never to innovate except when some grievance is felt; never to innovate except so far as to get rid of the grievance."