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Funny how a lot of companies should just hire a designer to become as good as Apple, but that never happens. Companies insist on naming their product WX1000 (hi

Funny how a lot of companies should just hire a designer to become as good as Apple, but that never happens. Companies insist on naming their product WX1000 (hi Sony), or adding a BOM to SOAP requests to make their products incompatible (hi Microsoft). So yes, Apple gear is ultraexpensive, does little, cable breaks and lifelong souvenir photos are locked up in iCloud. Unfortunately, this is still a much better experience than the Linux or Windows world. It’s only a matter of various companies having to do fewer dark patterns to win over the market, but that never happens.

smaudet 4y ago
100% just because they control their hardware. Not a design thing, mostly. Linux is like living in the engine room - fantastic if you love engines. Windows is like a mirror house where someone tried to renovate but left all the mirrors in, Mac is a pretty jail cell. The former two have their quirks, but are livable, the later only if you like prison cells... I don't think many people will enjoy ads in their prison cells, though.
kitsunesoba 4y ago
The thing that the other manufacturers seem to struggle with is that you can't phone in major aspects of your product and expect it to be "apple tier". You have to own it end to end, and sometimes even go so far as to fund new manufacturing techniques and machinery to make your product in its fullest form a reality. This is a bitter pill to swallow in an industry that's thrived on loosely tying together off-the-shelf components and contracting out the rest to the lowest bidders to produce products that often barely make it past the line of "somewhat acceptable", because the "apple way" is hard, expensive, and risky.
- ilyt 4y ago
  I think the main problem is that industry is focused more on keeping users in their little bubble than on actually making better product. And that of course means no actual talk with "competition", because making both of your products work together better might mean some of your customers might go to them for something.

smaudet 4y ago

100% just because they control their hardware. Not a design thing, mostly. Linux is like living in the engine room - fantastic if you love engines. Windows is like a mirror house where someone tried to renovate but left all the mirrors in, Mac is a pretty jail cell. The former two have their quirks, but are livable, the later only if you like prison cells... I don't think many people will enjoy ads in their prison cells, though.

kitsunesoba 4y ago

The thing that the other manufacturers seem to struggle with is that you can't phone in major aspects of your product and expect it to be "apple tier". You have to own it end to end, and sometimes even go so far as to fund new manufacturing techniques and machinery to make your product in its fullest form a reality. This is a bitter pill to swallow in an industry that's thrived on loosely tying together off-the-shelf components and contracting out the rest to the lowest bidders to produce products that often barely make it past the line of "somewhat acceptable", because the "apple way" is hard, expensive, and risky.

ilyt 4y ago
I think the main problem is that industry is focused more on keeping users in their little bubble than on actually making better product. And that of course means no actual talk with "competition", because making both of your products work together better might mean some of your customers might go to them for something.