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  • Advanced Apple Watch health monitoring features are hitting some roadblocks

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    Once they do get this right and out the door it'll be quite a major thing for Apple to do. I think this will benefit so many people and it will give Apple a shitton of Apple Watch sales. Glucose monitoring will be huge for Apple. 
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Jony Ive still thinks of Steve Jobs every day

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    Jony is the best industrial designer ever. 

    The man had so many absolutely epic home run hits that it’s ridiculous. 

    The engineers failed on the scissor keyboard, Intel lagged to the point that the thinnest MacBook Pro design wasn’t the best for performance and the apple board was stuck in analysis paralysis when it came time to move all-in on thunderbolt and ditch legacy tech, stopping at the notebook lineup. 

    Some like to blame Ive for those mistakes, but the reality is he wasn’t a man on an island doing that - it was apple as a whole. 

    Still, even if you did want to blame Ive, a rare miss (MacBook Pro 2015-2020) is a drop in the proverbial ocean of successes, which have defined Apple aesthetics forever much as Porsche’s designers have long ago. 

    And he wasn’t just successful, his products literally brought apple back from the dead - to becoming the most valuable company on earth. From iMac to iPod to iPhone to iPad, to notebooks to Mac Pro to AirPods to you name it. The guy has the Midas touch. His designs not only sold apple products, but revolutionized entire industries. Today, all smartphones look like his iPhone, notebooks? Just take a peek at Microsoft surface laptops and Samsungs. Tablets? It’s ridiculous. AirPods have their design copycats as well. 

    Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and Jony Ive is flattered often by entire industries. 

    The man is a living legend and apple will always owe him a debt of gratitude. 
    Everyone loves a mouse with the charging port on the bottom just because he didn't wanna see a charging port on it. So useful! He made some nice things like the original iMac, iPod, and original iPhone but he let his success get to his head and needed Steve to reel him back in a little....unfortunately after Steve passed away his designs may have looked cool but overall as a product his designs just sucked and were very impractical. 
    muthuk_vanalingampaisleydisco9secondkox2

  • Jony Ive still thinks of Steve Jobs every day

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    The problem with Jony's designs is he was too focused on form over function. He was totally obsessed with thinness and the end result was a device that didn't function to its full potential. He was more about a fashion statement than he was designing a product people actually could use...like who the hell cares about a chamfered edge on an iPhone? People are just gonna put a case on it anyways. That brought no value to the customer. 
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  • Former Apple hardware engineer joins Rivian

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    Apple should just buy Rivian. 
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  • Apple adds HomePod, AirPods to the 'vintage products' list

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    I love my 2 HomePods. I actually want 2 more. They're still selling for quite a bit of money today. Mine work great and Siri does everything I want it to from changing the temperature of my Ecobee, turning on or shutting the lights off (or changing the colors), turning off the AppleTV (and the TV), setting a timer, etc. They sound great too. Lots of bass and the audio in general is clear. 
    williamlondonjahbladewatto_cobra