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

• musicale 9mo 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 9mo ago
    > told disgruntled iPhone 4 users that they were holding their phones wrong That was never proven. Although their PR response was atrocious.
    • musicale 9mo 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-...