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Apple has a storied history of making boneheaded mechanical engineering decisions in favor of making something pretty over functional. G4 Cube, Titanium Powerbo
by wannacboatmovie 3y ago
Apple has a storied history of making boneheaded mechanical engineering decisions in favor of making something pretty over functional. G4 Cube, Titanium Powerbook, and the iPhone that bent if you placed it in a pocket immediately come to mind.
- userbinator 3y agoPlastic Macbooks were known for developing cracks too.
- stcredzero 3y agoWeak hinges on the early Macbook Airs. Also, saving money and time by epoxying the hinges into other Macbooks, instead of using fasteners.
- NoPicklez 3y agoI think Apple are perhaps just as guilty of this like many other major tech companies. It's not in any way just an Apple thing. However, the devices that have followed have not succumb to as much boneheaded engineering. It doesn't surprise me that they would use Glass as most mobile phones and watches are using a form of Glass that undergoes a greater amount of wear and tear than Vision Pro does. There was a variety of Acer laptops where the plastic hinge guard would catch and snap off when closing the lid of the screen A variety of HP laptops where the plastic around the screen would break apart due to the hinges being too strong for the glue that would eventually soften due to heat A variety of HP laptops where you could undo the bottom plate and random screws would simply fall out Samsung mobile phones used plastic screens before adopting Glass many years after the iPhone, displays would scratch like crazy