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Sometimes form just has to follow function and there's nothing any industrial designer can do about it. Look at the Red cameras that revolutionised digital cine
by samdung 7y ago
Sometimes form just has to follow function and there's nothing any industrial designer can do about it. Look at the Red cameras that revolutionised digital cinema. Many would claim they are ugly.
- antigirl 7y agoBut what about laptops? That’s a better analogy
- JohnJamesRambo 7y agoRed cameras are funky all functional beautiful. I don’t feel the same at all about the phones in this article. They try to make the rest of the phone slick and then tack on janky cameras and notches. I’d love a phone that had the Red aesthetic.
- vinay427 7y agoWhat functionality benefits does the camera layout on the new iPhone have over the layout on the Pixel 4? The author of the article seems to have found none, which was one of their main points as far as I could tell.
- wrboyce 7y agoI believe it is something to do with having the centre point on all three lenses very close so switching between them is a smooth transition.
- roenxi 7y agoThere are a bunch of things that designers could do in this case; the iPhones 1 though 5S were all magnificent and functional. I suspect that Apple has identified that the phone will be kept in a case so the visual aspects can be ignored. Many of the uglier choices (like the uneven back surface) make sense once there is a case around the body of the phone.