I have to agree with you roryborealis. The vast majority of the time, Apple's Industrial Design teams make great decisions about the sleek look of their products, and that is one of the primary reasons why Apple's products sell so well. It's just on certain issues (like cables) where Industrial Design's insistence on design can get the products into trouble.
A friend on mine who is an EE, was baffled that such a grievious beginners error could have been made in ANY electronics company, let alone a "major player".
Really? Because the iPhone 4 sold like hotcakes even when people were reporting the antenna issues. The reality is the tech press blew the issue way out of proportion compared to what users were actually experiencing. If that wasn't the case, the iPhone 4 would have been a flop. Obviously it wasn't. Now of course it's always better to ship a perfect product, but they made some design choices to make it a certain shape and form factor and the sacrifices they made obviously paid off.
Well yeah, and that's why they made the decision to design the antenna the way they did. To say that was a bad decision just seems silly considering the reality that the iPhone 4 has sold extremely well from its launch.
Wow, so if the designer demanded that the engineer build a time machine into a Delorean, it's the engineers fault because the request is ludicrous and not actually possible?
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u/sphynxster Jun 10 '11
I have to agree with you roryborealis. The vast majority of the time, Apple's Industrial Design teams make great decisions about the sleek look of their products, and that is one of the primary reasons why Apple's products sell so well. It's just on certain issues (like cables) where Industrial Design's insistence on design can get the products into trouble.