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It all is debatable. Apple regularly backtracked after having gone too far in one direction. See e.g. the dialling back of translucency after OS X 10.1, and of
by kergonath 5y ago
It all is debatable. Apple regularly backtracked after having gone too far in one direction. See e.g. the dialling back of translucency after OS X 10.1, and of brushed metal after Panther. The break in iOS 7 was extreme, but the same people whining about Ive were whining about skeumorphism a couple of months before.
Jobs had good taste, but was not infallible either. And he could not have designed a computer if his life depended on it. Saying that Ive has nothing to do with the iMac, iPod, iPhone, Cube, PowerBooks and MacBooks is very myopic, to beat the least.
Looking back, Apple kept being Apple and not much changed when Jobs died. Well, the keynotes are less interesting now. But product development does not look too different. Occasional mistakes are still made, and occasionally fixed. It was so before both Ive and Jobs, and it will still be that way after them.