Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design

Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by WalterBright on Sunday July 14, 2019 @09:20PM (#20437408)

> but they added the charging port at the bottom of the mouse (facepalm)

Reminds me of the 1968 VW Camper Bus. (My dad had one.) You can always tell the 68's because the gas filler was located on the right rear quarter panel. When you were filling up, and opened the sliding door, it would shear off the gas pump.

In '69 they moved it to the other side.

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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by organsnyder on Sunday July 14, 2019 @10:10PM (#20437621)

Then, when minivans started having sliding doors on both sides, the problem returned. Pretty sure our minivan won't let us open the driver-side door if the gas door is open.

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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by WalterBright on Sunday July 14, 2019 @10:34PM (#20437703)

> Pretty sure our minivan won't let us open the driver-side door if the gas door is open.

My dad's low tech solution was to yell at me to not open the door when he was pumping gas.

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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by saagarjha on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:55AM (#20438918)

Funnily enough that was mine's as well. Didn't stop us from hitting the pump once or twice anyways, though luckily we didn't break anything…

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