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Aren't Apple products also uniformly garish and tasteless with tons of half baked features too? Glad we don't have to see what dumb ideas Apple had in store

Aren't Apple products also uniformly garish and tasteless with tons of half baked features too? Glad we don't have to see what dumb ideas Apple had in store for us in the automotive realm. The m1/m2 are good chips, but macos is stagnant, iPhones have... memojis as their new feature? Apple has good industrial design for devices that fit in the palm of your hand. I truthfully cannot fathom how that could extend to a car, simply makes no sense. Where would they make them?

willbw 3y ago
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone accuse anything Apple made of being garish.
- skullone 3y ago
  They only have like 2% of the PC/laptop market, so not many people think they're that attractive. I like my M1 MacBook itself, but hate the aluminum chassis. I find it brutally garish, sharp and uncomfortable (hurts to type on, hurts my wrists where they rest on a sharp edge, so it's basically a desktop with an attached keyboard and mouse)
  - crazygringo 3y ago
    It's fine that you don't like it, but it's not garish. That's just not what the word means. MacBooks are literally the opposite of that: adjective gar· ish | \ ˈger-ish \ Definition 1 : clothed in vivid colors //a garish clown 2 a : excessively or disturbingly vivid //garish colors //garish imagery b : offensively or distressingly bright : GLARING 3 : tastelessly showy : FLASHY //garish neon signs https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garish https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garish
    - skullone 3y ago
      Apologies then, I understood it to mean tasteless, not necesarrily bright or colorful.
      - ShamelessC 3y ago
        Admitting when you’re wrong is tough. Here’s an upvote.
  - Johnny555 3y ago
    so not many people think they're that attractive Do most people buy a laptop based mainly on appearance? I always thought that most people buy a Windows laptop because that's what they need for work/school (or what they are most familiar with from work/school).
    - thorncorona 3y ago
      Many of my friends think most windows laptops look garish
      - skullone 3y ago
        Windows 11 is pretty terrible. So much bad design, I wonder how they do it.
- adolph 3y ago
  > I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone accuse anything Apple made of being garish. Not that I disagree in general, but the Apple Watch Edition is arguably in that zone. Most recently, he was seen wearing a solid 18k yellow gold Apple Watch on a special gold bracelet that was never made available to the public (the same one that Beyoncé and other celebrities were also rocking). The best part though? He appears to have never actually set the thing up, instead going Andy Warhol–style, wearing it purely as a piece of jewelry. https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/karl-lagerfeld-audemars-piguet-royal-oak-black https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/karl-lagerfeld-audemars-pi...
  - WrongAssumption 3y ago
    I wouldn’t consider something that was never made available to the public a product, nor what looks like a simple gold bracelet particularly garish.
- philwelch 3y ago
  Behold, the Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power iMacs! https://www.cultofmac.com/468313/flower-power-blue-dalmatian-imac/ https://www.cultofmac.com/468313/flower-power-blue-dalmatian...
  - Nevermark 3y ago
    Well .. you should see the quadrillions of grey sharp cornered boxes those beautific gumdrops put to shame!
- lmm 3y ago
  The "touch bar" was garish. So were the G3 iMacs if you remember back that far. They're just a company. They have good designers but they make mistakes like anyone else.
truculent 3y ago
Memoji are, what, 6 years old now?
- skullone 3y ago
  My point exactly. It is such a locked down platform, that I cannot for the life of me understand why people fawn over iphones. They were first to market, but market mover advantage is gone, Apple has not made a good iphone value proposition in years. Especially if you hold it wrong.
  - stephen_g 3y ago
    “Hold it wrong” was an antenna issue on the iPhone 4, released in 2010 and discontinued more than 10 years ago in 2013. Might be time to move on from that one…
    - SOLAR_FIELDS 3y ago
      It’s also interesting to point that specific one out because it’s a somewhat widely held opinion that outside of that specific flaw that the iPhone 4 was one of the best industrial designs of the time. Everything else about the design was very iconic, long lasting, and influential to future generations of devices both inside and outside of Apple
      - coev 3y ago
        Maybe the design was iconic but the all-glass design made it fragile as hell. I replaced six screens/backs in the year I had my 4 and I was really happy when they switched to aluminum backs in the 5.
  - nemothekid 3y ago
    Apple was first to which market? There used to be a time when it was the Apple fanboys that claimed Apple was first to market.
    - 3y ago
demondemidi 3y ago
Maybe the first bubble-shaped iMacs were? I always felt the translucency didn't pair well with saturated colors, and the plastic discolored in a gross way just like the 1980's putty-colored boxes of PC clones.

willbw 3y ago

I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone accuse anything Apple made of being garish.

skullone 3y ago
They only have like 2% of the PC/laptop market, so not many people think they're that attractive. I like my M1 MacBook itself, but hate the aluminum chassis. I find it brutally garish, sharp and uncomfortable (hurts to type on, hurts my wrists where they rest on a sharp edge, so it's basically a desktop with an attached keyboard and mouse)
- crazygringo 3y ago
  It's fine that you don't like it, but it's not garish. That's just not what the word means. MacBooks are literally the opposite of that: adjective gar· ish | \ ˈger-ish \ Definition 1 : clothed in vivid colors //a garish clown 2 a : excessively or disturbingly vivid //garish colors //garish imagery b : offensively or distressingly bright : GLARING 3 : tastelessly showy : FLASHY //garish neon signs https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garish https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garish
  - skullone 3y ago
    Apologies then, I understood it to mean tasteless, not necesarrily bright or colorful.
    - ShamelessC 3y ago
      Admitting when you’re wrong is tough. Here’s an upvote.
- Johnny555 3y ago
  so not many people think they're that attractive Do most people buy a laptop based mainly on appearance? I always thought that most people buy a Windows laptop because that's what they need for work/school (or what they are most familiar with from work/school).
  - thorncorona 3y ago
    Many of my friends think most windows laptops look garish
    - skullone 3y ago
      Windows 11 is pretty terrible. So much bad design, I wonder how they do it.
adolph 3y ago
> I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone accuse anything Apple made of being garish. Not that I disagree in general, but the Apple Watch Edition is arguably in that zone. Most recently, he was seen wearing a solid 18k yellow gold Apple Watch on a special gold bracelet that was never made available to the public (the same one that Beyoncé and other celebrities were also rocking). The best part though? He appears to have never actually set the thing up, instead going Andy Warhol–style, wearing it purely as a piece of jewelry. https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/karl-lagerfeld-audemars-piguet-royal-oak-black https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/karl-lagerfeld-audemars-pi...
- WrongAssumption 3y ago
  I wouldn’t consider something that was never made available to the public a product, nor what looks like a simple gold bracelet particularly garish.
philwelch 3y ago
Behold, the Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power iMacs! https://www.cultofmac.com/468313/flower-power-blue-dalmatian-imac/ https://www.cultofmac.com/468313/flower-power-blue-dalmatian...
- Nevermark 3y ago
  Well .. you should see the quadrillions of grey sharp cornered boxes those beautific gumdrops put to shame!
lmm 3y ago
The "touch bar" was garish. So were the G3 iMacs if you remember back that far. They're just a company. They have good designers but they make mistakes like anyone else.

truculent 3y ago

Memoji are, what, 6 years old now?

skullone 3y ago
My point exactly. It is such a locked down platform, that I cannot for the life of me understand why people fawn over iphones. They were first to market, but market mover advantage is gone, Apple has not made a good iphone value proposition in years. Especially if you hold it wrong.
- stephen_g 3y ago
  “Hold it wrong” was an antenna issue on the iPhone 4, released in 2010 and discontinued more than 10 years ago in 2013. Might be time to move on from that one…
  - SOLAR_FIELDS 3y ago
    It’s also interesting to point that specific one out because it’s a somewhat widely held opinion that outside of that specific flaw that the iPhone 4 was one of the best industrial designs of the time. Everything else about the design was very iconic, long lasting, and influential to future generations of devices both inside and outside of Apple
    - coev 3y ago
      Maybe the design was iconic but the all-glass design made it fragile as hell. I replaced six screens/backs in the year I had my 4 and I was really happy when they switched to aluminum backs in the 5.
- nemothekid 3y ago
  Apple was first to which market? There used to be a time when it was the Apple fanboys that claimed Apple was first to market.
  - 3y ago

demondemidi 3y ago

Maybe the first bubble-shaped iMacs were? I always felt the translucency didn't pair well with saturated colors, and the plastic discolored in a gross way just like the 1980's putty-colored boxes of PC clones.