Management by Brownian Motion

Apple's Emergency SOS is coming in November, cost $450M

iqatedo said:

The_New_tonton said:

I was going to move when he reinstated Trump or if they ignored moderation requests against racists but I quit Twitter when that a hole fired everyone. Now things got way way worse with “Chinese and Russian bots are totally welcome!”

I’m on Tribel now.

Have you looked at Mastodon?

I keep looking at Mastodon but I haven’t found a server. The site says 4.6k servers are out there, but the ~hundred or so they list on their site haven’t interested me. I’m trying to figure out how to find the rest. 

retrogusto said:

As someone who admittedly does not fully understand how the industrial design process works in a large company, it seems funny that they need a whole team of full-time people to design a small range of products, most of which barely change in their appearance from year to year. I’d be interested to know where all of the work goes. Even the Watch Ultra and the Mac Studio are essentially evolutions of existing designs, and the other products are nearly identical in outward appearance from year to year, with big changes occurring only rarely (with the Siri Remote redesign a notable exception). But maybe the trick is in maintaining the look as the technology inside develops. 

I’ve been involved with this sort of thing, albeit on a much smaller level. It is a real balancing act to keep the devices from not changing radically between iterations. I’m sure there were loud “discussions” when they subject of the camera bump came up. Design wants one thing, engineering says something else is needed, the laws of physics can trump both of them. Keeping all sides on the same script is the job of the lead designer. I have a feeling that the Mac Studio started as an evolution of the Mini. “But you need a cooling system HOW big?” But they wanted to maintain a common familial feel with the older design. The next Mini will likely share some design choices from the Studio. Then there’s the details. One side saying keep the design clean and seamless, and another one that wants a dozen ports of various kinds on the front and back. One says it has to have a cooling fan, another says no moving parts, and on and on. It’s not an easy job. In many ways getting the engineers, and designers, and circuit board team, and all pushing in the same direction is like the proverbial herding cats. 

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