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Why? I thought he was in charge of all UX to begin with. The fact that iOS7 came out with such inconsistent design, weird colors, and almost invisible fonts is

Why? I thought he was in charge of all UX to begin with. The fact that iOS7 came out with such inconsistent design, weird colors, and almost invisible fonts is his fault as much as anyone's, if not more so. He approved everything, and now he's taking it out on the designers because of the bad feedback from the market?

EGreg 13y ago
Ive approved it. This was a fiasco second only to the Maps fiasco. Jobs berated those guys. SAD BUT THIS IS HOW THINGS HAPPEN: 1. Apple Maps is headed by Forstall, doesn't get enough resources, comes out sucking. 2. Scott Forstall is forced out the stall... I mean the door. And Steve Jobs passes away. The two biggest advocates of skeumorphism gone. http://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-why-i-fired-scott-forstall-2012-12 http://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-why-i-fired-scott-fo... 3. Jony Ive, a hardware guy, takes over the UI. The microsoft-envy kills Apple's mojo. We just have to accept this new crap. OR FOR EXAMPLE: 1. Some people in Florida can't vote properly on a poorly designed butterfly ballot 2. George W Bush comes to power 3. After 9-11, we go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and do nation building (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9SOVzMV2bc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9SOVzMV2bc) 4. US economy falls, many countries start to resent the USA, meanwhile we get Patriot Act and a lot of domestic surveillance 5. All kinds of spy programs and warrantless searches and detaining of citizens is authorized because of "terrorism" And it all started from a butterfly ballot...
- samstave 13y ago
  While that is a wildly crazy comparison... and the conspiracy theorist in me likes it, it is completely naive to think that the war on terror was an emergent event after the butterfly ballot... Cheney, Bush Sr, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz had been decades long been building up to their coup of the US.
  - EGreg 13y ago
    But if they hadn't been elected, how would they have succeeded if Al Gore's admin was running the show? I'm saying that the flutter of a butterfly's wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world. Chaos theory :-P
    - samstave 13y ago
      Elected. I dont think that word means what you think it means.
gfodor 13y ago
What bad feedback from the market? Has there been any customer satisfaction survey done around iOS 6 vs 7?

EGreg 13y ago

Ive approved it. This was a fiasco second only to the Maps fiasco. Jobs berated those guys. SAD BUT THIS IS HOW THINGS HAPPEN: 1. Apple Maps is headed by Forstall, doesn't get enough resources, comes out sucking. 2. Scott Forstall is forced out the stall... I mean the door. And Steve Jobs passes away. The two biggest advocates of skeumorphism gone. http://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-why-i-fired-scott-forstall-2012-12 http://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-why-i-fired-scott-fo... 3. Jony Ive, a hardware guy, takes over the UI. The microsoft-envy kills Apple's mojo. We just have to accept this new crap. OR FOR EXAMPLE: 1. Some people in Florida can't vote properly on a poorly designed butterfly ballot 2. George W Bush comes to power 3. After 9-11, we go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and do nation building (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9SOVzMV2bc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9SOVzMV2bc) 4. US economy falls, many countries start to resent the USA, meanwhile we get Patriot Act and a lot of domestic surveillance 5. All kinds of spy programs and warrantless searches and detaining of citizens is authorized because of "terrorism" And it all started from a butterfly ballot...

samstave 13y ago
While that is a wildly crazy comparison... and the conspiracy theorist in me likes it, it is completely naive to think that the war on terror was an emergent event after the butterfly ballot... Cheney, Bush Sr, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz had been decades long been building up to their coup of the US.
- EGreg 13y ago
  But if they hadn't been elected, how would they have succeeded if Al Gore's admin was running the show? I'm saying that the flutter of a butterfly's wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world. Chaos theory :-P
  - samstave 13y ago
    Elected. I dont think that word means what you think it means.

gfodor 13y ago

What bad feedback from the market? Has there been any customer satisfaction survey done around iOS 6 vs 7?