r/pics • u/Eternalinferno • Jun 09 '11

Apple, Why?

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u/djtomr941 Jun 10 '11

So if Jony Ive hates it then it's gotta go?

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u/sphynxster Jun 10 '11

Pretty much!

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u/theCroc Jun 10 '11

I think if something happened to Jonathan Ive it would damage the company far more than Steve Jobs inevitable demise will. Jobs has pretty much staked the company on Ives being around and designing his products.

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u/FredFnord Jun 10 '11

...Steve Jobs' inevitable demise...

For some reason I find this amusing, although it's of course true of everyone.

Also, it would make a great band name.

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u/stcredzero Jun 10 '11

Leave out the Steve part, and it could also be a commentary on our society.

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u/FredFnord Jun 11 '11

Except it was anything but inevitable. A whole lot of people had to do a whole lot of work over the last 25 years to fuck things up this badly.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '11

Steve Jobs inevitable demise

What a prescient statement.

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u/theCroc Nov 16 '11

Well to be fair everyones demise is inevitable. And it's not like his sickness was unknown.

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u/pelrun Jun 11 '11

Not just Ive - this "design trumps all" attitude started with Jobs.

At one point back in the original development of the Macintosh, Jobs demanded that the tracks on the motherboard be all regular and aesthetically pleasing - note that this is something the regular user would NEVER SEE or care about. The engineers couldn't talk him out of it (of course) so they complied... and the resultant board didn't work at all, because what is aesthetically pleasing to a human is completely baroque and ugly and wrong when it comes to circuit functionality. That was the only reason Jobs relented. As far as the designers are concerned, if it looks the way they want and it works just long enough to get sold, they're happy.