James Hillhouse on Here's what John Ternus needs to do about Apple ID, says Mark Gurman - 'I never cease to be surprised at Gurman’s ability to express his sense of self-importance. I would counter Gurman with my own (unwanted) view of why the Jobs-Ives era worked. It boils down to Jobs as a sanity check on Ives’ tendency to design the ultimate slab, with Jobs nudging that a product had to actually be useful for people. To this customer, since Ives’ left Apple in 2022, the slate-focused design trend has yielded to something that better balances form and function. Products such as the MB, MBPro, iPhone, and iPad are much better than they were in a very long time, certainly since the mid-2010’s. Now I shall hush.'
on Here's what John Ternus needs to do about Apple ID, says Mark Gurman - 'Hey, opinions are like anal orifices; everybody has one. But some are more like anal orifices than others….'
on Here's what John Ternus needs to do about Apple ID, says Mark Gurman - 'For years Gurman has demonstrated that he doesn’t understand Apple at all. Now it seems he doesn’t even know that Ternus has been in charge of the design team since he joined. Apple Watch validates his design chops. The rest of the smart watch field, broadly defined, remains a discordant mess, with basically no 3rd party App ecosystem.'
on Here's what John Ternus needs to do about Apple ID, says Mark Gurman - 'what a blowhard gurman is'
on Here's what John Ternus needs to do about Apple ID, says Mark Gurman - 'When you hold up an Apple product everybody knows what you have. That isn’t good design, it’s GREAT design. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, comes to mind.'
on Here's what John Ternus needs to do about Apple ID, says Mark Gurman - 'Gurman must subscribe to Tommo’s blog.'
on Here's what John Ternus needs to do about Apple ID, says Mark Gurman - 'Design seems good now. The software UI and bugs need more attention.'
on This week's Apple trading strategies (6/22-6/26/26) - 'That would follow the pattern of “The Newton was 13 years too early”, right?'
on Ice Universe: The difference between Samsung and Apple is profound - 'Great stuff Bart. Appreciate you'
on Ice Universe: The difference between Samsung and Apple is profound - 'Bart: Thank you (and Gemini) for that series of comments. A real tour de force!'
on Ice Universe: The difference between Samsung and Apple is profound - 'Bart, I am not patient enough to read this opening each post. If you could share a PDF I can add it to my Books app and enjoy reading it all at leisure on my Friday flights to Sicily. Thank you Signore!'
on Joanna Stern: 'I spent a week with new Siri' (video) - 'Even Star Trek starship computers of the 2260’s had compute time, sometimes saying “Working!” while using compute cycles. Pre and post Kirk and Next Generation computers of 2360’s still had female voices. Some still required to restate the questions, or provide more information, much like ChatGTP asks today. Hopefully, we gain less latency, and more accuracy.'
on Joanna Stern: 'I spent a week with new Siri' (video) - 'The best spam blocker, ever…is SpamSieve! I purchased it ONCE, about 10 years ago, and have been getting FREE upgrades, several times a year, ever since! The app blocks an estimated 98% of ALL spam coming into my inbox, on every one of my devices! I don’t understand why Apple doesn’t just aquihire this small, apparently one-person company — Michael Tsai is the developer’s name — responsible for this phenomenal app!'
on Saturday Apple video: Apple’s Secret iPhone launch team - 'extraordinary, really. will we see another moment like that? Apple will continue to make great and amazing products but nothing will come close to the profound impact of the iPhone launch until there is a unicorn moment where all the impossibly precise conditions for a product like iPhone to emerge align and extraordinary effort is expended.'
