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Its mostly true when the integrating company cares for the user experience. Which apple clearly does. The example you shared is the opposite. I am imagining a

by ankit219 10mo ago

Its mostly true when the integrating company cares for the user experience. Which apple clearly does. The example you shared is the opposite. I am imagining a kernel today written in a manner that airpods would be able to use it to extract the max out of it. Now, it has to support 10 other third party pods, so at the minimum, kernel would be more generalized.

ngetchell 10mo ago
A company that produces a wireless mouse that charges upside down really does not care about user experience.
- musicale 10mo ago
  Steve Jobs loved the iMac's terrible hockey puck mouse. Jony Ive is probably to blame for the terrible (yet very thin) butterfly keyboard making it into Apple laptops. However, these missteps do not prove that Apple doesn't care about user experience.
  - throwaway314155 10mo ago
    > told disgruntled iPhone 4 users that they were holding their phones wrong That was never proven. Although their PR response was atrocious.
    - musicale 10mo ago
      > That was never proven “All phones have sensitive areas,” Jobs wrote. “Just avoid holding it in this way.” https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/06/jobs-on-iphone-4-antenna-avoid-holding-it-in-this-way/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/06/jobs-on-iphone-4-ant... https://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/24/steve-jobs-describes-iphone-4-signal-strength-a-non-issue/ https://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/24/steve-jobs-describes-ip... Jobs wasn't exactly wrong - bridging the antenna with your finger was not a good way to hold the iPhone 4. What's hilarious is how they "fixed" it in software - by changing the signal bar display curve, and then making the lower bars appear taller. https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/08/a-15-year-mystery-solved-the-20-bytes-of-code-that-fixed-antennagate/ https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/08/a-15-year-mystery-solved-the-...
jonway 10mo ago
I guess if apple changes the way it works completely it would be different, with the kernel and such but like Aren’t peripherals inherently modular kind of definitionally? You should check that GitHub, it makes AirPod functionality mostly agnostic. The warts could (in some world) be mere bug reports for the manufacturer firmware team. Personally, I think the Bluetooth standards suck a big one even recognizing how good it’s gotten and I _almost_ resent apple for not pushing this out as anither standard.
- ankit219 10mo ago
  Modular in the sense you have to support multiple hardwares (of different kinds) instead of just one. Eventually you arrive at a place where software is good enough, and hardware + kernels cannot do the exact heavy lifting that is happening today in conjunction. Not the intel level but directionally similar kind of tradeoffs.

ngetchell 10mo ago

A company that produces a wireless mouse that charges upside down really does not care about user experience.

musicale 10mo ago
Steve Jobs loved the iMac's terrible hockey puck mouse. Jony Ive is probably to blame for the terrible (yet very thin) butterfly keyboard making it into Apple laptops. However, these missteps do not prove that Apple doesn't care about user experience.
- throwaway314155 10mo ago
  > told disgruntled iPhone 4 users that they were holding their phones wrong That was never proven. Although their PR response was atrocious.
  - musicale 10mo ago
    > That was never proven “All phones have sensitive areas,” Jobs wrote. “Just avoid holding it in this way.” https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/06/jobs-on-iphone-4-antenna-avoid-holding-it-in-this-way/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/06/jobs-on-iphone-4-ant... https://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/24/steve-jobs-describes-iphone-4-signal-strength-a-non-issue/ https://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/24/steve-jobs-describes-ip... Jobs wasn't exactly wrong - bridging the antenna with your finger was not a good way to hold the iPhone 4. What's hilarious is how they "fixed" it in software - by changing the signal bar display curve, and then making the lower bars appear taller. https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/08/a-15-year-mystery-solved-the-20-bytes-of-code-that-fixed-antennagate/ https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/08/a-15-year-mystery-solved-the-...

jonway 10mo ago

I guess if apple changes the way it works completely it would be different, with the kernel and such but like Aren’t peripherals inherently modular kind of definitionally? You should check that GitHub, it makes AirPod functionality mostly agnostic. The warts could (in some world) be mere bug reports for the manufacturer firmware team. Personally, I think the Bluetooth standards suck a big one even recognizing how good it’s gotten and I _almost_ resent apple for not pushing this out as anither standard.

ankit219 10mo ago
Modular in the sense you have to support multiple hardwares (of different kinds) instead of just one. Eventually you arrive at a place where software is good enough, and hardware + kernels cannot do the exact heavy lifting that is happening today in conjunction. Not the intel level but directionally similar kind of tradeoffs.