Comment by DidYaWipe
1 year ago
Yeah I knew throwing Ive in there invites a skeptical response, but I really detest that guy's product-degrading mania and attitude.
And while the company obviously still thrived, Ive's intellectually bankrupt (and defective) design got bad enough to embarrass Apple even in the mainstream press. I thought this WSJ article was a brilliant dig: https://www.wsj.com/graphics/apple-still-hasnt-fixed-its-mac...
I'm not even disagreeing with you, I agree with you that Ive was responsible for many weird and outright bad designs. (IIRC he did the original iMac's hockey puck mouse).
I'm saying the investors caring about $$$ would have less than zero reason to object overall.
And I agree with you on that, until it hurts the bottom line (which, even if it happens, will be hard or impossible to quantify).
There are loads of apologists out there ready to defend bad design, and a (sadly) growing percentage of the population that has never been exposed to GOOD design in many product categories.