Latko

As deep and rich the history of accomplishments is, the more shallow the present and the future seem to be, comparatively. What the heck has all this talent been doing over the last 5...7 years, where does Marc Newson fit in, what design trends did they lead or follow ? With a (modestly) new design direction for iPads, after so many and more years, why didn’t that get extended across the line-up, and who would allow dated designs like the bigbezel iPads to return in 2019 ?

rogifan_new said:

Power of defaults is strong.

Relative to the number of preinstalls, this accomplishment is incredibly poor.

That is precisely what one would want to do. Replace the battery in the each bud. The Galaxy Buds got a 6 out of 10 from ifixit due to the relatively easy procedure to replace the coin cell battery in each bud which is available online. These buds last 2 years as we know now. Great moneymaker for Apple “the environment friendly company” Any disposable plans ?

There is just one, overall conclusion: Joni did it again !!

Bringing the utmost in design and dedication he completely redesigned the AirPods into a well-deserved, follow suite appliance. Loosely but courageously playing with their original lines, it took audacity and a firm stance towards lamentation - as sitting on his laurels could have been temptative with the broad acceptance of his award-winning, classical design statement.

However, he resisted that and went into stunning detail: Every individual molecule not only became carefully reassessed but also meticulously redimensioned. Every atom got retrofitted and recommitted towards its inner essence, and evaluated in its main aim: to contribute to style and elegance of the overall concept. The former tentpoles became re-evaluated where it came to their intrinsic function, now to reappear in a completely new occurrence: the amputated kolibri leg.

In a research that took over 13 years and went as far as Guatemala and South-Paraguay, the inner spirit of the South-American jungle bird appeared to have the closest resemblance to the essence of the AirPod, with its wings twittering at the full frequency spectrum of from -4 to 40kHz while maintainting complete mechanical balance and supreme homology across its whole structure. As only few of us realize, the kolibri also is amongst the rarest species, just like the AirPod early adopter that - despite what all commercial blog and web publicity wants us to believe - remains shy, fragile, vigorously trying to behave casual during social events, at every public appearance with these unreferenced remainings hanging out of his or her ear. In striking similarity, the kolibri’s timid appearance gives away that it actually wasn’t created to be another animalist, trivial part in the foodchain. It actually appeals to a more pristine, spiritual level of Life.

Sometimes it seems it doesn’t want to be there on the streets, and only exists because The Creator wanted it to. And that Creator’s disciple chose to take that analogy and take it to a further level, again, as expected in Cupertino, in line with his recent, revolutionary iPad (/mini) reincarnations. Adequately responding, in complete anticipation, to the quest for new colors, 256 to be exact, in their unique integration of universal white: the unified coagulation of all color desires across the hemisphere. In that, he found the new, serene way to express existence, meaningfulness, and pristine essence of the venerable plastic enclosure shaped to universally fit every human ear on the planet (except possibly yours)
As only Apple can do.

jdgaz said:

This is really pretty stupid. 1) Have Siri recognize the voice that is asking information of it. 2) use that voice to determine which device will be used / queried for information 3) Allow multi queries without the repeated "hey Siri". Answer questions with answers not web site lookups. Start there and you are on your way to a winner.

While you’re quite right, this immediately translates into serious complexity on a lower level.  When Apple acquired Siri, it didn’t adopt the architecture designed by the original developers - translating into a lack of modularity and scalability.
Apple figured it could do better, but on the contrary, from that moment the project went into patchwork.  As it now has become apparent that they failed in a big way, we see various flavors of spin reaching press, like they would buy other speech synthesis engines, start over from scratch, or anything else that might cover up the disaster at hand.
Appointing big names for truckloads of money is the last resort of that wrong kind.
Geniuses can’t integrate truckloads of incompatible systems and thereby can’t repair what troublemakers have done before.
Siri has become the same frivolous mixture of various technologies as Project Titan, without any clue or strategy how to integrate it into a product