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The general direction an industry is going isn't usually the issue. Most designers can predict the general trends in an 'infinite timescale'. The issue comes t
by hrktb 7y ago
The general direction an industry is going isn't usually the issue. Most designers can predict the general trends in an 'infinite timescale'.
The issue comes to when it's a acceptables trade-off. I think for now the wireless future is not here yet, and won't be for the next year or 18 months.
Apple didn't pull it off with it's AirPods (too pricy for wide adoption, still lag in the bluetooth stack, only 3 or 3 designs available for something that needs to fit on people's ear), I'd say they were too early to pull the plug on wired.
- sneak 7y agoThis argument has been made since the iMac without a floppy drive or non-USB serial port. If they were too early, people would stop buying their devices because of the "lack" of functionality. They haven't. That means that the people who claim they're too early were wrong. It turns out that most people who buy computers and most people who complain about the range of ports on computers are not the same size groups, and are mostly not comprised of the same people.
- hrktb 7y agoThe pace of purchase of the laptops and iPhones slowed down though. It can be attributed to a lot of factors, but we can't make the blanket argument "it's selling more than ever so they can't be doing it wrong" anymore.