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macOS plays second fiddle to iOS at Apple. Ive was Chief Design Officer. Now check Apple's Leadership page (https://www.apple.com/leadership/ https://www.apple
by fmajid 4y ago
macOS plays second fiddle to iOS at Apple.
Ive was Chief Design Officer. Now check Apple's Leadership page (https://www.apple.com/leadership/ https://www.apple.com/leadership/). Design is nowhere to be found on it. It had temporarily been assigned to HR chief Deirdre O'Brien, no more, and Design co-chiefs Alan Dye and Evans Hankey report to the COO Jeff Williams, a.k.a. the Department of Everything Else. It's not a surprise both Dye and Hankey are leaving the company.
While I think Ive was mostly harmful to the company once the strong guiding hand of Steve Jobs that kept him on the straight and narrow went, it's not good to have this level of instability in the critical function of design either. Expect years of mediocre product design and stagnation ahead. On the plus side, no more butterfly keyboards, cables that fray if you look at them funny, or portless Macs either.
- smoldesu 4y agoSounds like you're taking a realistic stance here, so I won't tear you to shreds. Like you said, Apple's hardware is improving objectively so it's not a terrible thing. For years though, I've been more bothered by gimped software than gimped hardware. Guess that means I shouldn't be in the Apple ecosystem, which is fine by me I suppose.