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cincytee said:

Still happily watching a 25-year-old CRT TV with a digital converter. During commercials I get a beverage from my 55-year-old refrigerator, which soldiers on without complaint. The forced obsolescence of basically new hardware for something as mundane as watching TV is ridiculous.

If you're still on a CRT you clearly do not care about the quality of your image. Technology changes since then are hardly forced obsolescence.

timmillea said:

To make the Mac forever more 'iPhone' is a terrible mistake. It makes the Mac harder to use and makes it more and more redundant. If I wanted an iPhone as my main computing device, I would just use my iPhone! The Mac should have distinct modus operandi. 

I absolutely hate the new System Settings in Mac OS. I feel abused by them. Safari has gone downhill by not working correctly with many sites and if they interfere with Calculator, I may abandon Mac for good. None of these changes have been in right direction. Where is the Mac team when you need them?

More redundant? 

Abused? You must be spending too much time in Settings.

Any websites not working with Safari well are the result of poor web developers, not Apple.

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libertyandfree said:

  What ever happened to micro-LEDs, I thought that was due out about the same time?  Frankly, the current mini-LED displays still look fantastic and the average user really will not notice much improvement going up to the OLED whereas the prior LED backlit LCD to mini-LED transition was a significant jump in display quality. 

You can't take industry analysts and leakers at face value for things they say are 1 year away or more, especially technology development ones.

It seems OLED manufacturers are addressing the issues with OLED tech faster than microLED manufacturers are at getting miniLED to be cheaper and mass manufactured. Same with the with miniLED. It wasn't able to address its issues faster than OLED manufacturers were able to address theirs. Hence, Apple settled on OLED for the next cycle of their products. MicroLED displays might come out still, it is just going to be later.

That is, the best tech won for this cycle.

I feel like you have some typos mixing up tech here. Micro LED is not an extension of mini LED. Micro LED is more akin to OLED with self-illuminating pixels, but currently mostly limited to small displays and were targeted for use in the Watch initially by Apple. Mini LED is just denser LED backlighting grids for LCD screens. Not in the same league as OLED or micro LED, which are both similar in many ways, Micro LED is far far more expensive right now than OLED.

tophatnosocks said:

Been using Delta for a few years now, side load with Alt Store, doesn't matter if they are forced to change the icon, still a great App.
I get it, it's similar, no big deal to change the logo, and many people can't even understand what Delta simulator does or is for.  

adobe on the other hand has gone to (crap emoji) become bloat-ware. Imagine being such a dinosaur you are backing adobe? (laugh emoji)

this forum that can't handle basic emoji's in 2024 is the real laugh here.  (wink)

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humbug1873 said:

To be fully expected I guess. Remember the design team used to be lead by a guy that had the ear and fascination of a CEO that was inspired by good design and willing to go the extra mile to explore strange and new ideas. As a consequence lot of decisions where design-led and not based on technical need.
Then Steve Jobs died and left the company in the hands of the bean counting penny pincher Tim Cook, who at first didn't dare to object Ive and also didn't really care about the product design. That's why at first Apple Design has gone crazy (butterfly keyboard) and by now has become rather stale and boring in the last few years. Case in point are AppleTV and Mac Studio .... that essentially just extended the height of the box making it look rather ugly or the MacBook Air design that finally succumbed to the operations pressure being put in a square box that is plain and boring. 
That's probably why Ive eventually left. He lost his support in the company leadership and was bored with the new restrictions of the penny-pincher.
I do remember the Apple days when everybody was scared, when Tim Cook showed up. Because it usually was followed by cost-cutting and lay offs in the 00's.

So that's where we are at. Yeah Tim Cook managed the substance of the SJ Area well financially, but Apple totally lost it's edge.

So yes old-time designers are leaving heading for greener pastures (and I also assume they no longer need to work for money anyways).

Wow, that's a lot of speculation and projection based on your own assumptions (and taste, apparently). One could argue Ive and Jobs also enabled some of each others' worst impulses. There were plenty of misses under that combo. 

Not sure how the Air looks boring to you, I think it's a perfect refinement of the product (are you suggesting there's something amazing about the wedge design of the previous era? Why?). The latest iPhones, iPads, MacBook Pros all are the best they've ever been. Contrast the current MacBook Pros with the thin last gen Intel designs which ran hot and necessitated the butterfly keyboard the you complain about. The Mac Studio is an extension of the Mac mini design that's been around since the Jobs era. What else does it need to not be "boring" to you? As Ive has always said, design is about how something works, not how it looks. Who gives a crap what the Apple TV box looks like?

People make it sound like Ive designed products wholly by himself. In reality, he managed a team of industrial designers, all who made contributions. Additionally, they worked in tandem with a whole other team dedicated to input devices — which designed things like the butterfly keyboard. His deputy, Evans Hankey, was probably far more involved in day-to-day design choices than Ive later in his tenure, along with the rest of the design team. Strangely she's not mentioned in this article, and she just left last year. 

Ive by all accounts was burned out and checked out, and wanted to do something else than iterating on consumer electronics for the later part of his career after where he had brought the hardware design over the years at Apple, which was almost three decades. He certainly could afford to leave and chase these kinds of projects with his buddy Marc Newson, so he did. 

Tim Cook has been there since '98. He will forever be known as the person who scaled Apple to the behemoth that it is, able to manufacture the staggering numbers of devices they sell because ... guess what, people still love them and how they're designed.