Gregory's Server@thomasfuchs @researchfairy @harshad I blame Jon Ive and Steve Jobs for favouring overly minimalist design. I like the idea of buying a computer that isn’t covered with stickers, but hiding the UI in a mysterious way is user hostile.
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 @MetalSnake @thomasfuchs @researchfairy @harshad Yup, and Scott Forstall let that light shine brightly while he was in charge of iOS… But Steve was a big fan of Ive and ultimately had say over the direction that Ive took the look of the Mac and its OS. Disclaimer—I’m not an Apple historian, just grumpy. @MichaelPorter @thomasfuchs @researchfairy @harshad The timeline is like this: Steve Jobs died. Scott f* up Maps. Tim Cook fired Scott because of it and assigned Ive to GUI design. And we got the ugly mess we have today. @MetalSnake @thomasfuchs @researchfairy @harshad Ah, okay - more than ten years on and I’m already mixing up dates 😊 |
@MichaelPorter @thomasfuchs @researchfairy @harshad Steve Jobs loved the #skeuomorphic GUI. It was Windows which started flat design and Jon Ive taking over the software design at Apple changed everything from beautiful to designless boring flat.