Apples chief designer shoots rangefinders

Sort of a meta-story... can't do a real interview so he does a story about not being able to do a story.... odd.

The rangefinder reference is interesting though. Agreed, probably leica digital. Ive doens't seem like a film guy, unfortunately.

The part about him being next CEO of AAPL is wishful thinking and of course way off the mark. There's a CEO in waiting most likely but it's not Ive, it's generally regarded to be Tim Cook.

-Ed
 
While introducing the iphone 4, Jobs referred to the quality of the workmanship and detailing as the best ever in a consumer product, "like an old Leica camera".
 
Spleenrippa said:
Oh no, someone connected with Apple admits to using rangefinders... Good thing that type of camera is more complex than a Holga, or I'd be afraid of the Apple fanboi/hipster crowd driving RF prices up.
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Wow, so Apple is now linked to dumb people?
 
Is so much emotional investment in loathing a relatively harmless CE product healthy? It seems impossible to mention Apple without snide comments appearing.
 
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amateriat said:
the more-rabid among the Wintel technoscenti
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Does it even make sense anymore to speak of "Wintel" as a label for the antithesis of everything Macintosh, now that every Mac is an IBM-compatible PC, has an Intel processor, and has software to run Windows on it offered by Apple for free?
 
rxmd said:
Does it even make sense anymore to speak of "Wintel" as a label for the antithesis of everything Macintosh, now that every Mac is an IBM-compatible PC, has an Intel processor, and has software to run Windows on it offered by Apple for free?
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This is a great point. The average teenage person today knows of desktop computers like one would know of rotary dial telephones, and laptop computers are a familiar but dated domestic artifact, while a hand-held, Internet-connected cell phone device they are probably most familiar with as being "contemporary."

These young people are the current and next generation of consumers of electronic goods. Companies like Microsoft and Intel had best be busy redefining their products and services to cater to this generation.

Remember in the early 1980s, when IBM made the best, most efficient, mainframe computers in the world. But the world didn't want mainframe computers, and IBM almost went under; people wanted personal computers, on their desks at home. And Apple was there from the beginning, redefining computing.

Then the first PCs, but Apple was again redefining computing with the graphical user interface, and the Mac was born. It took several years later for the first Windows operating system to appear.

And now, computing is again being redefined, this time by hand-held and tablet-like personal devices, Internet connected; and once again Apple is in the middle of the fray.

No, I don't own an Apple product; but I appreciate the lessons one can derive from a study of recent technological history. It would serve both Microsoft and Intel well to also study, and rethink, that history that they, too, have been a part of.

~Joe
 
When I looked at the top level listing for this thread all I could see was "Apples chief designer shoots ...", so I thought it was a news story (as opposed to a promo piece.) You know, yet another take over at Apple, but a bit more violent this time.
 
JoeV said:
Remember in the early 1980s, when IBM made the best, most efficient, mainframe computers in the world. But the world didn't want mainframe computers, and IBM almost went under; people wanted personal computers, on their desks at home. And Apple was there from the beginning, redefining computing.

Then the first PCs, but Apple was again redefining computing with the graphical user interface, and the Mac was born. It took several years later for the first Windows operating system to appear.
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Actually it did not; the original Macintosh was presented in 1984, and Windows 1.0 was presented in 1985, so it didn't take long at all. In addition, Windows, or rather the operating systems and computers it ran on, supported things like hard drives, which were rather hackish on the original Mac until the arrival of the Mac Plus in 1986. In the early 80s, the idea of the GUI had been in the air already for a few years and hit pretty much all computer systems between 1984 and 1986; Visi On for the PC had appeared in 1983, X Windows appeared in 1984, GEM was presented in 1986, so was GEOS for the Commodore 64, and we should remember that the idea came not from Apple, but from Xerox' Star workstation in 1981.

In my opinion, Apple had exactly two versions of their operating system that were somewhat unique at the time they were presented: System 7 in 1991, which was arguably superior to Windows 3.0 from 1990 (but not to OS/2 2.0 in 1992), and MacOS X 10.0 in 2001 because it brought shiny user interfaces on a Unix core. Since then, Apple's advantage has been melting away; the appearance of Apple malware and Apple-only botnets over the last 2-3 years pretty much testifies to this.

Arguably, what defined personal computing in the 1980s was not the idea of the GUI, but the idea of the expandable system. This is exactly where the Mac line did not shine, partly due to the personal dislike of Steve Jobs. Apple didn't catch up with demand here again until the Mac II in 1987, at a time when everybody and their dog could already have a graphical user interface on their systems if they wanted.
 
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No doubt Apple has decent electronics but let's face it, their strong point from day one has been marketing savvy.
 
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