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Re:Look inside iPad Pro 11s Lidar Scanner by CamperBob2 on Saturday November 07, 2020 @08:56PM (#25022057)
It took Jim Henson's veteran designers several hours, if not days or possibly longer, to design Yoda and refine the puppet's shape and form.

It took someone 20 seconds in a CAD tool to do the exterior product design on the iPad, using intern-level skills.

There's a difference.

Re:Look inside iPad Pro 11s Lidar Scanner by coldtea on Sunday November 08, 2020 @04:55PM (#25029449)
>It took someone 20 seconds in a CAD tool to do the exterior product design on the iPad, using intern-level skills.

You'd be very suprised.

Not to mention, if it was so trivial, tons of other companies would have made the exact same design before, not copy it after it was released.

Re:Look inside iPad Pro 11s Lidar Scanner by CamperBob2 on Sunday November 08, 2020 @08:13PM (#25030531)
You'd be very suprised.

Hardly, but that's irrelevant.

Not to mention, if it was so trivial, tons of other companies would have made the exact same design before, not copy it after it was released.

Gee. It's almost as if it's what's inside that matters, and lacking the technology inside the iPad, those other companies had no reason to adopt the corresponding product design.

(Except, of course, in the TV and movie industries, where any number of prop designers did exactly that, decades before Apple.)

Re:Look inside iPad Pro 11s Lidar Scanner by coldtea on Monday November 09, 2020 @12:21AM (#25031705)
>Gee. It's almost as if it's what's inside that matters

Gee, when it comes to design pattens (or product design in general), it's what's outside that matters. Division of labor and all that...