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To be honest, I feel like the fact that you have to reach back 10 years to find a genuinely interesting Apple experiment more or less supports the point made in
by sjm-lbm 10y ago
To be honest, I feel like the fact that you have to reach back 10 years to find a genuinely interesting Apple experiment more or less supports the point made in the article.
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- criddell 10y agoOk, then how about MagSafe power connectors?
- sjm-lbm 10y ago"MagSafe is a series of proprietary magnetically attached power connectors, originally introduced by Apple Inc. on January 10, 2006, in conjunction with the MacBook Pro at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, California." From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagSafe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagSafe (I'm honestly not trying to be a jerk, and will certainly admit that I thought MagSafe was several years newer than that - I still stick by my comment above, though)
- fnord123 10y agoApple's mice have all been duds. Siri on the desktop is a dud. The pencil is a dud.
- sjm-lbm 10y agoI don't think the point is that 'Apple doesn't ever fail anymore', it's 'Apple doesn't release strange and interesting things anymore'. .. to your examples: * Stranger mice have been made than Apple's. Also, Apple's 'strange mouse' lineage goes all the way back to the first iMac in 1998. * Siri on the desktop isn't anything innovative, it's figuring out some way to build some iOS code to run in regular macOS. * .. and the pencil is just a stylus. They can call it whatever they want. IMHO, none of these rise to the level of something like MagSafe, which is a mundane part of a laptop done in a new and innovative way.
- fnord123 10y agoAmazon Fire wasn't really strange. It was only an experiment in as much as being one of Amazon's first forays into hardware. Otherwise it was pretty standard, iirc.