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spice-boy said:

andrewj5790 said:

He’s obviously never seen the Apple Watch. Or AirPods, or the HomePod, or the iPhone X, or the new iPads Pro. Where is he living?

It is easy to say Apple Watch, air pods, etc... are great designed products however is Apple Watch which uses the same form factor as the iPhone, iPad really a genius product or a modern version of a watch and not the re-imagining of what a watch could be?

Sorry if Isaacson caused some of you to clutch your pearls and gasp but if we were more like Jobs we would not be so inspired by Apple's products these past years either. 

Yes Apple Watch is exactly that. A re-imagining of what a watch could be. Tomorrow I will submit a one-week collection of heart rate averages as requested by my cardiologist. Before Apple Watch that was unimaginable even with the most modern version of any watch. Of course there are many fitness trackers, pedometers, BP monitors... what is the privilege of Apple Watch? The privilege is that I have only one wrist to put anything on, and with all its functionality Apple Watch got that wrist.

rain22 said:

macplusplus said:

ElCapitan said:

macplusplus said:

rogifan_new said:

Yet Steve Jobs decided to put a non-product guy in charge of the company. How much do we really believe Isaacson‘s story? He can say whatever. Steve isn’t here to refute it. Also Isaacson knows Ive. He knows Ive is not someone who’s going to comment on an a rumor. In fact it’s entirely possible Tim Cook’s e-mail response to Dylan Byers was not sanctioned by Apple PR. The WSJ asked Apple if they wanted to comment on the story and Apple PR said no.

He’s enough “product guy” to commit to iPad, to stay loyal to Steve Jobs’ Post-PC vision, to create the Watch, the Pencils, iPad Mini and to see and reject toaster-fridges.

He is also enough "product guy" to almost ruin the entire Mac product line pushing part of the core base over to competing platforms. – Come to think about it, he is a typical Compaq guy. 

That’s your personal opinion. Your liking or not liking current Macs doesn’t make him a Compaq guy. I see no trace of Compaq in Apple’s current product line. Besides, being a Compaq, HP, DEC, Sun, IBM, Oracle guy is not a bad thing, these are the pioneers of computing industry.

Well hang on. There is a bit of truth there. Apple hasn’t been giving a lot of love to the desktop side of things. The product line is a bit disappointing for a lot of core users. Mojave is the worst release of Mac OS in over a decade as far as stability and bugs with Darkmode being the only real innovation.
It would be nice to see some passion put back into the Mac side of things that leaves everyone fully happy with their purchase - not disappointed they didn’t take the next step up. 

Mojave is actually the most advanced among all desktop operating systems, and Catalina will be better after trashing 32-bit code providing full 64-bit performance. Apple File System, seamless iCloud integration of Desktop and Documents folders, common code base for both iOS and macOS applications, Metal 2 are to name a few. If you believe that the new Mac Mini, new MBPs, iMac Pro and the new Mac Pro are not the fruits of some passion for Mac, then you don’t deserve to own a Mac, sell them buy Lenovo.

ElCapitan said:

macplusplus said:

rogifan_new said:

Yet Steve Jobs decided to put a non-product guy in charge of the company. How much do we really believe Isaacson‘s story? He can say whatever. Steve isn’t here to refute it. Also Isaacson knows Ive. He knows Ive is not someone who’s going to comment on an a rumor. In fact it’s entirely possible Tim Cook’s e-mail response to Dylan Byers was not sanctioned by Apple PR. The WSJ asked Apple if they wanted to comment on the story and Apple PR said no.

He’s enough “product guy” to commit to iPad, to stay loyal to Steve Jobs’ Post-PC vision, to create the Watch, the Pencils, iPad Mini and to see and reject toaster-fridges.

He is also enough "product guy" to almost ruin the entire Mac product line pushing part of the core base over to competing platforms. – Come to think about it, he is a typical Compaq guy. 

That’s your personal opinion. Your liking or not liking current Macs doesn’t make him a Compaq guy. I see no trace of Compaq in Apple’s current product line. Besides, being a Compaq, HP, DEC, Sun, IBM, Oracle guy is not a bad thing, these are the pioneers of computing industry.

rogifan_new said:

Yet Steve Jobs decided to put a non-product guy in charge of the company. How much do we really believe Isaacson‘s story? He can say whatever. Steve isn’t here to refute it. Also Isaacson knows Ive. He knows Ive is not someone who’s going to comment on an a rumor. In fact it’s entirely possible Tim Cook’s e-mail response to Dylan Byers was not sanctioned by Apple PR. The WSJ asked Apple if they wanted to comment on the story and Apple PR said no.

He’s enough “product guy” to commit to iPad, to stay loyal to Steve Jobs’ Post-PC vision, to create the Watch, Pencils, iPad Mini, Retina MacBook, iPad Pro, iMac Pro, new Mac Pro, and to see and reject toaster-fridges. Compare to Steve Ballmer. That writer strives to align himself to WSJ by directly attacking Tim Cook because Tim Cook had criticized his lifetime masterpiece as a disservice. Steve Jobs wouldn’t be a “product guy” without a “operations guy”. One can imagine an ultimate product, if that cannot be produced in scale, it is vapor.

It may work, Apple can do that, provided that it is designed not as a seamless display like Samsung's bendable OLED plastics, but as two displays that may become one or remain two, for example when a keyboard is needed.

If the device is folded in 90 degree, it may display a haptic keyboard on the lower display. When unfolded backwards to 180 degree, the device may think "I'm a big display now" and may show a single screen on both displays. The joining borders of the displays may become a single very thin line that wouldn't bother the audience of that big display. Even the artists may not be bothered by that discountinuity since Apple can compensate for that via software, by providing a seamless continuous stroke to the artist.

Apple's experience in thinness and precision engineering may provide such a device. And obviously, it should be very thin, even thinner than the Retina Macbook, because otherwise people will always prefer a laptop.