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ireland said:

macplusplus said:

It is unbelievable that Apple couldn’t sell that Edition watch. Apple might sell it if they wanted that. While it is also true that the industry cannot tolerate such niche products, the Edition is only a fraction of Apple’s business and with such a power Apple could succeed with the Edition and obviously not go out of business like Vertu. There are a lot of VIPs in the world that would crave for such a watch. Apparently Ive has been left alone on the Marketing issues regarding Edition. The first Watch came in a luxurious box, with 2 m charging cable and a very high quality polycarbonate case. Watch 4 comes in a paper envelope, without case and with 70 cm charging cable unexpectedly short causing the Watch to slip from the hand and drop. 

Dropping the $10,000+ Edition was the right move. It wasn't great PR for Apple, as the expectation was no one could afford this watch, and the little developer traction Apple are getting with the Watch now would be non-existent with Edition Watch market. Focusing on both health and fashion was the right move for the product. But let's face it, it's not as if you still can't pay pretty penny for an Apple Watch. If you want to, you a buy a Hermès for $1,500+.

This is not the point. The point is, that unique and very special spot the wrist has many competing candidates. A luxurious item can always chase your Watch away. You have to counter that with something of equal power, which was Edition.

It is unbelievable that Apple couldn’t sell that Edition watch. Apple might sell it if they wanted that. While it is also true that the industry cannot tolerate such niche products, the Edition is only a fraction of Apple’s business and with such a power Apple could succeed with the Edition and obviously not go out of business like Vertu. There are a lot of VIPs in the world that would crave for such a watch. Apparently Ive has been left alone on the Marketing issues regarding Edition. The first Watch came in a luxurious box, with 2 m charging cable and a very high quality polycarbonate case. Watch 4 comes in a paper envelope, without case and with 70 cm charging cable unexpectedly short causing the Watch to slip from the hand and drop. The rationale of the Edition was not wrong, that spot on the wrist is very special and there are a lot of people that would decorate themselves on that spot with luxurious things. From high to low that would create demand for the less expensive variants as well.

Ive’s departure is a loss for Apple.

OK, hockey puck mouse. Here is my post in another thread.
https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/comment/3171746/#Comment_3171746

To summarize:

• It is circular because mice move in circular paths on the table.
• Reacquiring orientation is actually easier than losing it.
• Your wrist rests on the table and you drive the mouse with your fingers, not the palm of your hand.

I used it with pleasure for ten years and during that period I have never seen an iMac used with another mouse while I provided tech services to several companies. Meaning, it was easier to use than any other mouse. Previously I’d used Mac mice since the original Macintosh. Now I am using a Miniso wireless/BT mouse to play games occasionally on MBP.

What I don’t understand with the Magic Mouse 2 is why it is rechargeable? This is a big guy that can accomodate well disposable batteries. Batteries off you’re stuck. OK but you forgot the cable and you’re stuck again. Why would I carry a charging cable to use a mouse? I wouldn’t put the blame on Ive for this, since he made the old Apple TV 3 remote with an ordinary battery. That recharging “techno-burlesque” on a simple mouse might be the bright idea of someone else.

radarthekat said:

“Contrast that with the new Mac Pro that debuted at WWDC19, which looks like it was designed by Sun or perhaps Dell's Alienware, with a focus on performance and functionality that eclipses its intelligent but utilitarian design.“

Perfectly stated and characterized.  I wish I could click the Like button next to individual paragraphs in an article.  This article would have gotten nearly as many likes as it has paragraphs.  Dead on point, all the way through!  

Contrast “design focused” what with the new Mac Pro? The 2013 Mac Pro was not Ive’s design-focused idiosyncratic creation, it was an engineering-focused solution. Simply the industry couldn’t keep-up with multiple GPU design and Thunderbolt expansion, so “thermal core” architecture they focused on has been proved as being not the only architecture available, “thermal core” became a “thermal corner” with Federighi’s saying. Proven right or wrong their initial concern was functionality, not design aesthetics. It is irrelevant to relate that engineering issue to Jony Ive.

corrections said:

macplusplus said:

“As the PC business grew into an increasingly valuable segment, IBM attempted to develop its own, more sophisticated OS and hardware platforms with PS/2 OS/2. It continued work with Microsoft to do this, but as soon as Microsoft felt it could do better on its own, Gates' Microsoft dumped IBM and launched its own plans for Windows.”

You’re right that OS/2 was the sw platform, but PS/2 was the name of IBM’s hw platform intended to replace the easy to clone IBM PC with a proprietary new architecture.

MSFT worked with IBM on OS/2 and then backed out to focus on Windows instead. But IBM launched PS/2 on its own, only to get undercut by the rest of the industry that kept shipping faster old PC clones. 

PS/2 introduced the standard for mini-DIN keyboard and mouse connectors, which is why they were still called that up until USB. 

That was necessary because new generations would understand “PS/2” as “PlayStation 2”