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> Hopefully the transition for Amazon is as (seemingly) seamless as the Steve Jobs/Tim Cook transition was for Apple. I like Apple, but there is quite a seam w
by riversflow 6y ago
> Hopefully the transition for Amazon is as (seemingly) seamless as the Steve Jobs/Tim Cook transition was for Apple.
I like Apple, but there is quite a seam with the Jobs/Cook transition. That seam is the overly minimalistic industrial design patterns witnessed in the butterfly keyboard, vanishing ports, trashcan Mac, etc. They seem to finally be coming around on this.
- dkjaudyeqooe 6y agoThat's because Ive left. The product pipeline is now getting to the post Ive point and you can see a distinct change. IMHO Apple are stepping back from the form over function precipice and are being more pragmatic, to the benefit of customers.
- riversflow 6y agoExactly. It seems that while Jobs was able to balance/direct Ive in a constructive way, Cook was not. So at least from the outside Ive started to have an outsized impact on the final product, to the detriment of the product’s final quality. It took Ive’s departure for things for things to go back to normal.