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  • Jony Ive is no longer consulting for Apple

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    lam92103 said:
    darkvader said:
    GOOD!

    His early stuff wasn't awful.  Everything he's touched for the last 15+ years has been.

    It's like he forgot that people buy products in order to use them, not just for looking at them. A good designer needs to blend both. Looking good while being fully functional
    Definitely true. Yes, the stuff is beautiful, but functionality suffered.

    MacBooks so beautiful and thin that a rogue staple can cause $800 in damage.

    Removing color to differentiate different things. Removing obvious buttons with subtle text in obscure locations, making icons small and obscure without indication, removing scroll bars to indicate additional content, etc, etc.  So many poor decisions that made things look prettier but harder to actually use.  It sucks that there isn't an alternative option available.
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  • Apple announces 'Tap to Pay', lets users take payments on iPhone

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    Beats said:
    brianjo said:
    hmlongco said:
    Nice, but whatever happened to the tap to transmit contact information feature?
    There used to be an app called 'Bump'.  It was awesome. You could use it to easily transfer contacts, photos etc in a very easy way, simply by bumping devices together.  And, what made it even more awesome is that it was totally cross platform. Didn't matter if you had an Android phone or an iPhone. They simply connected.

    But, Google ended up buying the app and simply shut it down. No explanation given.

    Just one more example that shows these companies don't actually care about making products that do what customers want, but they want to make as much money as they possibly can, at every possible angle.  And there's not a thing you can do about it.

    The problem with “bump” is that there’s easier ways to do the same thing.

    For example, I just sent my mom some pictures in less than 30 seconds. I don’t wanna go to her house and bump her phone.
    In the case of sending pictures to your mom in another area, sure, you've already got her contact info in your phone.

    But, bump was great for in person connections where you didn't have that contact in your phone.  If you wanted to send a picture to someone that you didn't have contact info for OR didn't want to SHARE contact info with, but happened to be next to, BUMP was awesome.  
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  • Apple announces 'Tap to Pay', lets users take payments on iPhone

    brianjobrianjo
    hmlongco said:
    Nice, but whatever happened to the tap to transmit contact information feature?
    There used to be an app called 'Bump'.  It was awesome. You could use it to easily transfer contacts, photos etc in a very easy way, simply by bumping devices together.  And, what made it even more awesome is that it was totally cross platform. Didn't matter if you had an Android phone or an iPhone. They simply connected.

    But, Google ended up buying the app and simply shut it down. No explanation given.

    Just one more example that shows these companies don't actually care about making products that do what customers want, but they want to make as much money as they possibly can, at every possible angle.  And there's not a thing you can do about it.
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