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| Apple announces major executive shake-up |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-10-29 22:13:55 |
| "Apple today announced executive management changes that will encourage even more collaboration between the Company's world-class hardware, software and services teams. As part of these changes, Jony Ive, Bob Mansfield, Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi will add more responsibilities to their roles. Apple also announced that Scott Forstall will be leaving Apple next year and will serve as an advisor to CEO Tim Cook in the interim." The most important thing to remember is that Ive will head interface design. Ive is supposedly not a big fan of skeuomorphism, so hopefully, iOS and OS X will move away from the My First Operating System-look. Expect the current popularity of skeumorphism - including elaborate reasoning as to why it's the best choice - to magically radically decline among Apple fans. |
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| The death of skeumorphism can not come soon enough. |
| By vocivus on 2012-10-29 22:34:19 |
| I'm almost embarrassed to use iCal. |
 - Score: 4 |
| Sheesh |
| By edwdig on 2012-10-29 22:38:24 |
| I'm not a fan of how far Apple's taking skeumorphism, but if you're going to throw out a "My First Operating System" comment, throw it in the right place. The Win8 start screen's "designed by Crayola" style along with the incredibly dumbed down Metro apps feel like a far more appropriate place for a comment like that. |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE: Sheesh |
| By Lava_Croft on 2012-10-29 23:22:16 |
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Try crayolas to draw the outline of a rectangular shape and then fill in the colour. See? It's quite hard to copy Windows' live tiles with crayolas. |
| - Score: 3 |
| One of us |
| By foobaz on 2012-10-29 23:42:17 |
| Yea those Apple fanboys are ridiculous, always buying their iMacs and posting the latest Apple news on their websites. Wait a sec.... |
| - Score: 6 |
| Hopefully... |
| By someone on 2012-10-30 00:10:49 |
| Jony Ive will manage to turn the trend around and make Apple's UI classy and usable again |
| - Score: 4 |
| RE: Hopefully... |
| By unclefester on 2012-10-30 04:08:22 |
| Jonathon Ive aka "one trick pony" will introduce a GUI using rectangular tiles with rounded corners. |
| - Score: 4 |
| skeuofans |
| By phti on 2012-10-30 05:22:26 |
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I have yet to find, even among the hardest apple fans, someone who is talking good about ical leather or the OMG-WTF "find my friends" leather app which is even worse if you can believe that. This, and the ios6 maps failure, are the reason for the demise of the Steve Buscemi of technology. |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE: skeuofans |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-10-30 05:31:11 |
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I tend to mentally filter out all those decorations so I'm generally not bothered. The only thing that does keep surprising me is the Find my Friends app. I'm not annoyed about how it looks, but it does seem strange. |
| - Score: 2 |
| Scott |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-10-30 05:41:19 |
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Scott went from crown prince to "advisor", that's going from leading scorer for your team to assistant coach. It's a demotion and my guess is he'll eventually find another challenge somewhere else. I don't think it's the maps thing, more people at Apple would have known the quality was dodgy. Tim could have overruled Scott and stuck a beta label on it. He probably lost a power struggle with a couple of other VPs, one being Jony. |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE[2]: Hopefully... |
| By pandronic on 2012-10-30 07:20:44 |
| It's a good thing then, that Apple invented the rounded corner and has a patent on that. |
| - Score: 4 |
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