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Post by Fabian Transchel

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Thomas Fuchs 🫯 @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

Honestly still can't believe that they now launched a phone with a stylus and a laptop with a touchscreen.

I miss the Steve Jobs era so much. Hopefully some day they'll find back. Maybe when the AI bubble deflates a lot of pain will eventually drive the whole tech industry to actually innovate and think about amazing products for, you know, human beings again instead of being a money extraction quasi-scam. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel@norden.social

@thomasfuchs Funny thing though is that imo, #apple is still the best of the bunch when it comes to design and usability. (Mind you, NOT #MacOS itself...)

I too miss the days when devices were about what the user wanted to do with them...

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Pasadena CAS @pcas@urusai.social

@ftranschel @thomasfuchs I feel like a lot of Apple’s usability advantage is just a legacy of older design decisions and that newer design decisions are generally eroding that (albeit more slowly than when Ive and Dye were in charge of design).

I think the runaway success of the iPhone is largely to blame for that. When Apple wasn’t in such a dominant position, the company had to focus on good design as a point of differentiation. Now they can use walled gardens to extract large amounts of revenue, user experience be damned

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