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Apple’s Industrial Design Chief Hankey to Leave Three Years After Ive

• scrlk 4y ago
  Apple hardware design has become incredibly stale and iterative over the last decade. Most of their products are either white injection moulded plastic, or a CNC machined metal enclosure with rounded corners and glass. I suspect this is due to the ops teams at Apple ruling the roost: they made a huge investment in CNC machines to scale to iPhone/Mac volume and a break from this would be too disruptive. If you had to design to this constraint, wouldn't it become boring?
  • dagmx 4y ago
    What other materials would you want to see though? Metal and glass are both premium feeling and very recyclable. Apple also does quite a bit with fabrics too. There’s a huge focus on environmental friendliness and it’s hard to have better materials that are also environmentally friendly. The plastic stuff is usually a concession for stuff that needs to be lighter.