Jony Ive shakes up Apple’s software design group

Re:Jony Ive shakes up Apple’s software design group by higherpurpose on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @05:39PM (#7562643)

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?

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Re:Jony Ive shakes up Apple’s software design group by gfodor on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @06:57PM (#7563084)

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

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Re:Jony Ive shakes up Apple’s software design group by EGreg on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @06:14PM (#7562854)

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-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)

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...

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Re:Jony Ive shakes up Apple’s software design group by samstave on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @06:49PM (#7563050)

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.

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Re:Jony Ive shakes up Apple’s software design group by EGreg on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @08:21PM (#7563457)

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

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Re:Jony Ive shakes up Apple’s software design group by samstave on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @10:27PM (#7563824)

Elected. I dont think that word means what you think it means.

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