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Hardware, Hardware, Hardware - all engineering physical form, no concept of usability/UX function.

Sir Jony Ive is a brilliant industrial designer but he has never had a clue about what it takes to make his "wonderful" objects usable for humans.

Don't listen to me - check out another authority: https://www.fastcompany.com/3053406/how-apple-is-giving-design-a-bad-name

Mike Wuerthele said:

wood1208 said:

If Intel executes 10nm chips schedule properly than it will be last Intel chips to go in Macbook/PRO. Intel in conference call said it will make 10nm ICE processors based on Lakefield packaging for one specific customer and my guess that could be Apple.

We're coming up on two years since the first estimated delivery date has passed on this one, so I'm not holding my breath.

But DEMINSD does have a point.  Apple's current wish for thin-at-all-costs and damn the functionality/usability/laws-of-physics causes problems for their suppliers - and thence the customer.

"Thin & quiet" is a Jony Ive industrial design / hardware view - it neglects the software/usability of devices - how they actually work - in favour of their "sexy looks".

Completely agree Patchie, but it needs medical professionals to push harder.  I understand that caring comes first, but in our technical world they have to get involved in acquiring the UX tools they (and their patients) need.

As mentioned in a previous post, II've been designing and building EHRs, all my life, and the news is this:

* Yes EHRs are complex, but it's all doable.  ICU is one module, cardio is another . . . design to the needs of the professional and link them together - one step at a time.
* All current major electronic health record systems in the US have wonderfully efficient, easy-to-use, billing modules.  The Patient part as you note -  Shared health information, history, charting, recent health care encounters - absolutely terrible.
* The main problem (in countries where the patient, rather than profit, is supposed to come first) is an apparent lack of will by medical practitioners to get into the technical details.  For example, in Canada, Alberta's attempt at a Shared Health Record failed because there were 14 EMR vendors in the province and no one (Doctors, vendors) wanted to make the financial/intellectual/work effort to connect their isolated systems.

Bottom-line?  EMRs are doable: - but they need medical professionals to stand up and say "we demand this!"

RE; Rob53, Mac_Dog, Patchythepirate.  Yes.

All current major electronic health record systems in the US have wonderfully efficient, easy-to-use, billing modules.
The Patient part?  Shared health information, history, recent health care encounters - absolutely terrible.

I don't know where this so-called "news" came from, but as someone who as worked in health care IT for all my life, the best thing Apple could do if they bought Epic would be to close the company and start again.  Apple certainly has the UX capabilities to do a much better job for health providers. ;-)

maestro64 said:

I would like to see the disengagement report of humans driving every day. I think people would be surprise how often people become distracted and are no longer engaged in driving. I see people taking their hands off the wheel and looking down or somewhere else in the car all the time.

I suspect the "disengagement rate" for humans is 98%+

The physical act of driving itself is mostly muscle memory - it's the cognitive part that is hard.  We just do it all the time and think we are in control when we text, email & phone while driving.  Police forces, and other first responders, who have to clean up the mess of our total driving inadequacy call us Lemmings for our idiocy.

Good for you Apple - security, privacy, customer focus - keep those AI drivers throttled back until they even begin to approach the capabilities of the everyday driver.

Dead serious - no satire here tonight.