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Tag: industrial design

Apple patents Apple Watch-style digital crown for iPhone and iPad

Thursday, July 28, 2016 5:35 pmThursday, July 28, 201617 Comments

Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple…

This is what the Apple iPhone 7 Plus will look like – report

Wednesday, May 18, 2016 1:03 pmWednesday, May 18, 201625 Comments

We’ve bagged the CAD files being used to make prototypes of Apple’s upcoming smartphone sensation…

GoPro hires longtime Apple designer Danny Coster to head up a new hardware design group

Wednesday, April 13, 2016 3:25 pmWednesday, April 13, 20169 Comments

While Apple prides itself in maintaining a tight group of 19 industrial design team members under Jony Ive…

iPhone SE vs. iPhone 6S review: Customer win, Apple fail

Monday, April 11, 2016 9:26 amMonday, April 11, 201630 Comments

With the iPhone SE Apple has finally built the device its customers demanded rather than what the company itself wanted…

Jony Ive discusses relationship with Steve Jobs, design culture, and more with Charlie Rose

Monday, March 14, 2016 8:52 pm11 Comments

Jony Ive tells a story of a time he and late Apple CEO Steve Jobs were shopping in Italy…

iPhone 7 leak reveals significant design changes

Wednesday, February 3, 2016 5:25 pmWednesday, February 3, 201633 Comments

Apple is taking a big gamble with the iPhone 7…

At this point, why make iPhone any thinner?

Friday, January 8, 2016 2:45 pmFriday, January 8, 201641 Comments

The current crop of leaks around Apple’s upcoming iPhone 7 have a number of shared features…

Open thread: What’d be wrong with slightly thicker iPhone with more battery life and a flush camera assembly?

Monday, December 21, 2015 12:18 pmFriday, March 2, 201848 Comments

Yes, we know Apple thinks thinness sets iPhone apart from all other so-called smartphones…

Why is Apple’s New Magic Trackpad 2 So expensive?

Thursday, October 15, 2015 11:08 am49 Comments

Apple’s new Magic Trackpad 2 is an overpriced device, poorly designed, and isn’t at all practical…

Apple uses good design to marginalize entire industries

Tuesday, October 13, 2015 3:59 pm5 Comments

It is crucial to recognize how a product’s design has the potential not just to alter industries, but go so far as to marginalize them…

Apple’s Jony Ive, Jimmy Iovine to talk tech and entertainment at Vanity Fair event

Wednesday, August 26, 2015 6:53 pm2 Comments

Apple CDO Jony Ive will again be attending Vanity Fair’s 2015 New Establishment Summit…

Why Apple Watch’s Digital Crown will be a thing of the past

Thursday, July 16, 2015 9:54 pmThursday, July 16, 201523 Comments

It’s been my contention from the start that the Digital Crown…

Three more industries that Apple could disrupt

Friday, July 10, 2015 11:11 am5 Comments

As I look at Apple today and try and peer into its future…

How Apple’s Jony Ive influenced the new ‘Star Wars’ films

Thursday, May 21, 2015 8:40 am24 Comments

Apple seems to have had a hand in dressing the Galactic Empire…

Why I’m buying an Apple Watch

Friday, March 13, 2015 12:00 pmFriday, March 13, 201538 Comments

I’ve never spent more than $200 on a watch, but…

Tim Bajarin: We could be witnessing the birth of a new Apple

Monday, March 9, 2015 10:37 am10 Comments

I met with Steve Jobs on the second day he was back at Apple…

Jony Ive is a redwood

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 7:39 pm28 Comments

Everyone talks about quality. Everyone talks about delighting customers…

Why Samsung ‘design’ stinks: ‘Steve Jobs Syndrome’

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 9:10 am12 Comments

During his 18-month tenure with the company, Samsung failed…

Jony Ive: How an industrial designer became Apple’s greatest product

Monday, February 16, 2015 12:04 pmMonday, February 16, 201524 Comments

Sir Jonathan Ive is now one of the two most powerful people at Apple…

Apple’s Jony Ive: Bad design is ‘personally offensive’

Friday, November 14, 2014 11:28 amFriday, November 14, 201448 Comments

I really truly believe that people can sense care in the same way they can sense carelessness…

Watch Jony Ive’s full Vanity Fair interview

Friday, October 17, 2014 8:05 pm18 Comments

Apple’s Jonathan Ive in Conversation with Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter…

Google Glass vs. Apple Watch: In form against function, Apple beats Google

Monday, October 13, 2014 6:02 pmMonday, October 13, 201415 Comments

The Romans had a phrase for it: Ars est celare artem…

Analysts struggle with Apple Watch unit sales forecasts

Friday, October 3, 2014 11:29 amFriday, October 3, 201420 Comments

Analysts are trying to handicap future sales of the groundbreaking device…

Marc Newson: ‘My role at Apple doesn’t necessitate all of my time’

Wednesday, October 1, 2014 8:07 pm3 Comments

In his first interview since joining Apple, industrial designer Marc Newson…

Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster predicts sales of 10 million Apple Watches in calendar 2015

Wednesday, October 1, 2014 1:25 pmWednesday, October 1, 201418 Comments

Analyst Gene Munster currently forecasts sales of 10 million Apple Watches…

Vogue: A rare look at design genius Jony Ive, the man behind the Apple Watch

Wednesday, October 1, 2014 10:30 amWednesday, October 1, 201417 Comments

I first catch sight of Jony Ive across the Apple campus…

Steve Jobs built a FUD deflector shield for Apple

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 12:28 pmTuesday, September 30, 201412 Comments

The guy’s hands are literally trembling from the force he exerts in his FUD attempt…

Apple’s design team headed to Paris Fashion Week, likely for Apple Watch event

Monday, September 29, 2014 4:57 pmMonday, September 29, 20145 Comments

Apple and French fashion retailer Colette are teasing a one day in-store experience

Consumer Reports stress test: Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus not very bendable at all

Friday, September 26, 2014 10:40 pmSaturday, September 27, 201493 Comments

It took significant force to do this kind of damage to all these phones – any of these phones should stand up to typical use…

Inside the facility where Apple tortures the iPhone 6

Friday, September 26, 2014 1:56 pmFriday, September 26, 20147 Comments

Absolutely the last place on earth you’d want to be if you were an iPhone…

After hemorrhaging $23 billion in market value, Apple plays defense

Friday, September 26, 2014 9:20 amFriday, September 26, 201426 Comments

Apple Inc broke its silence…

Apple opens testing facility to reporters, details exhaustive iPhone 6 Plus durability tests

Thursday, September 25, 2014 10:00 pmThursday, September 25, 201439 Comments

Appel today invited reporters into its testing lab to see the machines it uses to test its products…

Consumer Reports claims to be ‘designing authoritative test’ for iPhone 6/Plus bendability

Thursday, September 25, 2014 7:15 pmThursday, September 25, 201432 Comments

Consumer Reports want to do a “scientifically valid test” of the structural strength of the new iPhones…

Apple’s gauntlet of five durability tests that iPhone 6 Plus passed with flying colors

Thursday, September 25, 2014 5:28 pmThursday, September 25, 201427 Comments

With some 15+ million units sold, Apple has received just nine customer complaints of bent iPhones…

Apple posts job for Product Design Structural Analysis engineer to help assure next-gen iPhones don’t bend, either

Thursday, September 25, 2014 4:07 pmThursday, September 25, 201416 Comments

Apple is looking for experts in failure analysis, metallography or fractography…

Samsung, HTC, BlackBerry, and others mock ‘bendability’ of Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus

Thursday, September 25, 2014 3:28 pmThursday, September 25, 201449 Comments

Competition between mobile phone manufactures is fierce with handset companies…

Apple: Only nine customers have complained about bent iPhone 6 Plus units

Thursday, September 25, 2014 3:02 pmThursday, September 25, 201434 Comments

In response to reports that its largest iPhone is bending in the pockets of users…

U.S. stocks decline most in eight weeks as Apple stumbles and tumbles

Thursday, September 25, 2014 2:26 pmThursday, September 25, 201415 Comments

U.S. stocks tumbled the most in eight weeks, as Apple Inc. sank on snafus…

Apple support says bent iPhones must pass visual inspection to qualify for warranty replacement

Thursday, September 25, 2014 1:28 pmThursday, September 25, 201423 Comments

There is a test called a Visual Mechanical Inspection that the device will have to pass…

Wired reviews Apple’s 64-bit iPhone 6 Plus: ‘Too big to fail, but not to bend’

Thursday, September 25, 2014 1:05 pmThursday, September 25, 201425 Comments

This is the best smartphone hardware I’ve ever used…

Jony Ive: There are ‘millions and millions’ of Apple Watch combinations

Wednesday, September 10, 2014 1:24 pmWednesday, September 10, 201435 Comments

We’ve always tried to make products that people don’t begrudgingly use but want to use…

Apple hires famed industrial designer Marc Newson

Friday, September 5, 2014 10:07 pmSaturday, September 6, 201434 Comments

Designer Marc Newson is joining Apple as part of Jony Ive’s design team…

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