This is why your average corporation is staffed by unremarkable average persons who are rewarded for "getting along" instead of doing their best work, which is what Jobs was after.
I thinks it's an excellent piece and Ive and his team do amazing work. I freely admit that I'm an APPLE junkie and will be getting a watch. My issue with the article, and maybe this is just me, but I felt like it gave Cook absolutely no credit for anything, even though he's heavily quoted. I feel like they are treating him as though without Ive the company would collapse but anyone can do Tim's job. Thoughts?
A nice, lengthy article. I loved the slams of Toyota, who really don't have a good grasp of taste. They make wheeled washing machines.
All of the Japanese carmakers have design disabilities. It's rare for them to make a car that actually looks good or innovative. Most of their cars appear either committee designed or pulled out of someone's butt.
All of the Japanese carmakers have design disabilities. It's rare for them to make a car that actually looks good or innovative. Most of their cars appear either committee designed or pulled out of someone's butt.
Same with American and especially Korean. Full of screamingly unnecessary fillips and dumpy-diaper rear elements, with hideous, leering faces.
What's missing is any shred of charm. The Mini has a little, but the interior is a bad cocaine trip. The lowly Fiat 500 is pretty humane and cute, and sells well, in So Cal anyway.,, regardless of roadworthiness.
All the Germans are going apeshit in the US with sinister LED treatments. Everything is tawdry and meretricious. Even Tesla blew it with that gaping maw in front (for what?)
This is a barbaric age, design-wise. Apple could do some massive good.
No one said Ive designed everything at Apple, but the entire team. However, his name and reputation are too big at this point. Once he steps out, the trust will go with him. Apple may have bunch of good designers, but without someone who is unapologetically good like Ive, they're just bunch designers.
Ive's design team is just 19 people who have been working together for decades and from the information that can be extracted from the article, the design team managed to create its own culture and values within the Apple's culture and values which is quite extraordinary achivment. Such level of integration for such a long time leads to a moment where every single member of the team is Ive and any decision made comes from the team as a whole. Apple will live long after Ive retierment, the same way as Apple continued growing and delighting us after Jobs passed away. That because Jobs managed to create a culture and values that are not attributable to a single person and leave a legacy for everyone to rember. Im sure Jonny will manage to leave Apple design team in very capable hand, and why not, even better hands.
I thinks it's an excellent piece and Ive and his team do amazing work. I freely admit that I'm an APPLE junkie and will be getting a watch. My issue with the article, and maybe this is just me, but I felt like it gave Cook absolutely no credit for anything, even though he's heavily quoted. I feel like they are treating him as though without Ive the company would collapse but anyone can do Tim's job. Thoughts?
Thats because the article is for Ive and is intended to descirbe the Ive's profile. I dont see how this may be interpreted as a lack of importance to Cook's contribution.
All of the Japanese carmakers have design disabilities. It's rare for them to make a car that actually looks good or innovative. Most of their cars appear either committee designed or pulled out of someone's butt.
Same with American and especially Korean. Full of screamingly unnecessary fillips and dumpy-diaper rear elements, with hideous, leering faces.
What's missing is any shred of charm. The Mini has a little, but the interior is a bad cocaine trip. The lowly Fiat 500 is pretty humane and cute, and sells well, in So Cal anyway.,, regardless of roadworthiness.
All the Germans are going apeshit in the US with sinister LED treatments. Everything is tawdry and meretricious. Even Tesla blew it with that gaping maw in front (for what?)
This is a barbaric age, design-wise. Apple could do some massive good.
No one said Ive designed everything at Apple, but the entire team. However, his name and reputation are too big at this point. Once he steps out, the trust will go with him. Apple may have bunch of good designers, but without someone who is unapologetically good like Ive, they're just bunch designers.
Isn't that what they said about Jobs? If Ive trusts his team, the Apple is in good hands for the future. I've gets A+ designers to work for him.
I'm not suggesting the guy is ready to retire but he himself admits he burnt himself into poor health.
It sounded like that, getting pneumonia and needing to take 3 weeks off and saying it's the most he's had off work. At least he has a chauffeur, I suspected this when he said he made calls from the car. It said his team works 12 hours a day. That's just silly, people need to have a personal life. Once you add a commute into that, the whole day is taken up with work.
I'd rather hear that the team was working reasonable hours and not being pushed into wanting to retire. They can afford to hire more people.
What Steve managed to do leading up to the changeover was bring other team members to the front more so we got to see Mansfield, Forstall, Ive, Eddy Cue and Tim Cook. They aren't giving the lower down staff enough visibility. That would ease up on the pressure being placed on Jony Ive. He'd said in the past that he would leave if he felt he was no longer doing meaningful work.
It's interesting how they tested all sizes of the iPhone in 0.1" increments up to about 6". They felt 5.7" was too big so that suggests they won't be going above 5.5" in future. 4.7" and 5.5" were just right for his gorilla paws:
He mentioned that having to wake up his iPhone felt old. It needs to be authenticated though so it'll probably stay that way but he must have considered changing it.
It was a very revealing article, I'm surprised they were so open about the way they worked. The more of these I read, the less I feel they have a firm idea of where to take Apple next. That's not necessarily a bad thing, their current products will be used for decades more to come but it's like watching them turn into McDonalds or Coca-Cola where they stop being the new thing and just stay the popular thing.
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Agreed, i loved that part of the article.
I thinks it's an excellent piece and Ive and his team do amazing work. I freely admit that I'm an APPLE junkie and will be getting a watch. My issue with the article, and maybe this is just me, but I felt like it gave Cook absolutely no credit for anything, even though he's heavily quoted. I feel like they are treating him as though without Ive the company would collapse but anyone can do Tim's job. Thoughts?
A nice, lengthy article. I loved the slams of Toyota, who really don't have a good grasp of taste. They make wheeled washing machines.
All of the Japanese carmakers have design disabilities. It's rare for them to make a car that actually looks good or innovative. Most of their cars appear either committee designed or pulled out of someone's butt.
Same with American and especially Korean. Full of screamingly unnecessary fillips and dumpy-diaper rear elements, with hideous, leering faces.
What's missing is any shred of charm. The Mini has a little, but the interior is a bad cocaine trip. The lowly Fiat 500 is pretty humane and cute, and sells well, in So Cal anyway.,, regardless of roadworthiness.
All the Germans are going apeshit in the US with sinister LED treatments. Everything is tawdry and meretricious. Even Tesla blew it with that gaping maw in front (for what?)
This is a barbaric age, design-wise. Apple could do some massive good.
No one said Ive designed everything at Apple, but the entire team. However, his name and reputation are too big at this point. Once he steps out, the trust will go with him. Apple may have bunch of good designers, but without someone who is unapologetically good like Ive, they're just bunch designers.
Ive's design team is just 19 people who have been working together for decades and from the information that can be extracted from the article, the design team managed to create its own culture and values within the Apple's culture and values which is quite extraordinary achivment. Such level of integration for such a long time leads to a moment where every single member of the team is Ive and any decision made comes from the team as a whole. Apple will live long after Ive retierment, the same way as Apple continued growing and delighting us after Jobs passed away. That because Jobs managed to create a culture and values that are not attributable to a single person and leave a legacy for everyone to rember. Im sure Jonny will manage to leave Apple design team in very capable hand, and why not, even better hands.
I thinks it's an excellent piece and Ive and his team do amazing work. I freely admit that I'm an APPLE junkie and will be getting a watch. My issue with the article, and maybe this is just me, but I felt like it gave Cook absolutely no credit for anything, even though he's heavily quoted. I feel like they are treating him as though without Ive the company would collapse but anyone can do Tim's job. Thoughts?
Thats because the article is for Ive and is intended to descirbe the Ive's profile. I dont see how this may be interpreted as a lack of importance to Cook's contribution.
Agreed.
The golden age of car design is long gone, sadly.
Isn't that what they said about Jobs? If Ive trusts his team, the Apple is in good hands for the future. I've gets A+ designers to work for him.
It sounded like that, getting pneumonia and needing to take 3 weeks off and saying it's the most he's had off work. At least he has a chauffeur, I suspected this when he said he made calls from the car. It said his team works 12 hours a day. That's just silly, people need to have a personal life. Once you add a commute into that, the whole day is taken up with work.
I'd rather hear that the team was working reasonable hours and not being pushed into wanting to retire. They can afford to hire more people.
What Steve managed to do leading up to the changeover was bring other team members to the front more so we got to see Mansfield, Forstall, Ive, Eddy Cue and Tim Cook. They aren't giving the lower down staff enough visibility. That would ease up on the pressure being placed on Jony Ive. He'd said in the past that he would leave if he felt he was no longer doing meaningful work.
It's interesting how they tested all sizes of the iPhone in 0.1" increments up to about 6". They felt 5.7" was too big so that suggests they won't be going above 5.5" in future. 4.7" and 5.5" were just right for his gorilla paws:
He mentioned that having to wake up his iPhone felt old. It needs to be authenticated though so it'll probably stay that way but he must have considered changing it.
It was a very revealing article, I'm surprised they were so open about the way they worked. The more of these I read, the less I feel they have a firm idea of where to take Apple next. That's not necessarily a bad thing, their current products will be used for decades more to come but it's like watching them turn into McDonalds or Coca-Cola where they stop being the new thing and just stay the popular thing.