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Do you honestly think this is a one-person job? While you might question the outcome of product development, assuming that a multi-billion R&D budget accounts f
by oneplane 5y ago
Do you honestly think this is a one-person job? While you might question the outcome of product development, assuming that a multi-billion R&D budget accounts for 1 designer is just unhelpful.
Even just the WebKit commits with Apple engineering contacts is enough to build a whole company around...
- geerlingguy 5y agoOne person had the initial idea; the hive mind doesn't make radical changes like this on its own. A lot of times, you can end up with amazing new ideas that way, but sometimes a change based on ego / "that person is just so brilliant" is just bad. The tab bar thing is going to be Touch Bar 2.0, I think. The question is, how long is Apple going to push it? I was hopeful the Touch Bar would die with M1 Macs...
- oneplane 5y agoI'm sure there is one (administratively) responsible person in the end, but I haven't every had a large-scale design lean on just 1 person or have very low-quantity lynchpins. I doubt Apple's inner workings are simplistic in such a way that one person with some sort of clout pushed this with no further thought. At the end of the day this is just speculation but purely negative speculation is just some form of populism/FUD and makes everything worse.
- TwoBit 5y agoI'm not arguing this change as good or bad, but the pattern of one or two key people deciding something and others getting on board to implement it is common.