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It takes a forward thinking company to let go of a top level person that is running the show in a big way, it is also time to take a fair look-with-hindsight at what has been going on.

The numbers are excellent at Apple but you have to ask whether this is Apple's work or the demands of the marketplace. Everyone wants a mobile phone, although a tough market to be in for the likes of HTC/Nokia/Blackberry (who got it majorly wrong), could Apple have done better?

Same with computers. Everyone has one but could Apple have done better had they listened to the customers?

Steve Jobs was right to get rid of the floppy disk and Flash even though that was deeply upsetting to some people. That set a bit of a trend with Apple being prepared to get rid of some features that people really liked such as the MagSafe power adaptor. Then there were the dongles. In ten years time people will look back on that not as a bold but correct decision. Ultimately many people were quite inconvenienced by that unilateral decision.

There are products such as the Mac Pro that are nonsensical. Then when it comes to actual computers rather than lifestyle accessories, Apple don't really do server things. So if you are an Apple shop then you don't have rack-mounted Apple computers, they come from somewhere else.

There are lots of people that cuss the mice, the keyboards and much else. If you are a PC or Linux user then these mutterings are kept to oneself. You just know that you don't question these things as the loyal followers of the cult are okay with these things.

Sometimes it requires someone to be moved sideways to take a revisionist view grounded in realism. We have been worshipping false gods. Apple have been pissing off the true faithful in the developer community. The choir might not have the numbers of the congregation but they are a key demographic for getting the congregation to show up. As a developer myself I have never been converted to the Apple flock. So I have a little bit of perspective and I am not blinded by the Apple Way. But Apple could have got this market entirely to themselves, all they needed was to have just the one developer grade laptop and just the one developer grade desktop.

Developer grade? It just means having a case you can open and upgrade, the required ports and a user interface (hw + sw) that 'just works'. Even if there isn't the same margin made on these products they are 'halo', the rewards come when every developer moves on to spec. Apple for their respective companies and friends/family.

China is a bit of a problem for Apple. Huawei products are getting a bit of press at the moment but if you look at the quality and design you can see some incredible stuff going on. It is hard to say Apple are the best in comparison.

Anyway, Apple is a forward thinking company and whatever the real reasons they have mutually agreed to let the design boss go and to take a different direction. I am hopeful that the customer rather than the designer will come first and that we will be seeing great products come out of Cupertino that don't get non-Apple people like me in silly arguments about Apple design hubris.
That's strange, my edition doesn't have appendices. Thanks for the page though.
Hmm in my experience burnout has little to do with how much your peers care about their work relative to you?

For me it seems to happen because we feel that we must be emotionally invested in our work, and the toll of being 100% emotionally invested in something that is more likely than not devoid of meaning creates a “burnout” reaction.
It may be a good deal for the individual confronted with the binary choice, however, that does not change this phenomenon's essential reliance on the exploitation of the poverty of the developing world. The same dynamic is what enables sex tourism and exploitative natural resource extraction, and these are understood to be wrong for the aforementioned reason. Economic incentives cause the owning classes to overlook this in the case of the labor market, however. If there is a shortage of job applicants, raise the offered pay. This is the supposed way that 'free markets' are intended to function, but their putative proponents fight tooth and nail to prevent this from being necessary.
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I'm not sure what ideals "Hollywood" is parading. You'd have a hard time finding a non-stereotypical character played by someone of one of various minority ethnicities, for example.
I agree with the Sir part, but it’s clearly Gruber’s irony there.
The article being negative isn’t a proper critique though: it’s a pundit writing, it’s not their role to make things better, but to point out fallacies and pain points. He did, in my opinion quite properly.
A fair point. It’s not a hereditary title, so it’s not the same thing. And yes, the U.S. gives out medals as well, but we don’t call the recipients knights or give them special appellations.
The repetition is part of what I really value.

His points are valuable, and the repetition helps me remember what he is saying.

I love the different examples and different facets of the same issue (although it is only a few months reading the eletter so far).
I fully understand what OP was trying to say. The problem is words. You can think whatever you want. If you want to deal with other people in a shared reality and influence the arc of history, I suggest learning to identify, adopt, and use rigorously defined words as intended, wherever possible, because that frees up your very limited intellectual capabilities to focus on the things you actually want to change.
Still much better than plastic, unless I’m mistaken
Exactly. Ive is a British citizen and the story was broken in the Financial Times, a British newspaper.

Maybe we should have just referred to plain "Barack Obama" over here because fuck this President shit, we don't have an elected head of state in the United Kingdom?
Why do you need to have a single login page? Why can't you have different login pages for SSO (really, corporate) and non-SSO (really, personal)?

If you have a B2B product where your customer provides an IdP for their users, then provide them with a login link that is tuned for corporate users - e.g. example.com/login/sso. On this page you have a single input box for an email address. Most corporate users will simply bookmark this page and never know that another login page exists.

If you have individual users, then have another login page - say, example.com/login, with a prompt like "<Button for FB login> <Button for Google login> <Button for Apple login> <Button for Corporate login> Or, enter a username and password below: <username field> <password field>". If the user clicks <Button for Corporate login> then it takes them to example.com/login/sso. If the user has a corporate SSO but tries to fill in the password field anyway, process the login request according to the corporate IdP while throwing out whatever was in the password field.
You’re underestimating the luxury industry... there’s plenty of 1%-era willing to pay for an outrageously expensive door handle designed by Ive
I have yet to see an engagement program run by HR that wasn't some asinine extrovert-centric activity or obviously propaganda. They are concerned with protecting the company. For some that means viewing employees as liabilities, for others it means viewing them as resources to be kept as happy as necessary for as little cost as can be got away with. It's a rare HR department indeed that ignores its own title and thinks of employees as something other than resources.
Apples design has been a big yawner for a few years now. Apple watch and MBPr impressed me. Since then? Seems like the design had actively getting worse since 2015 I.E. MBP with touchbar.

The Mac Pro and Apples new display don't look terrible to me but the cheese grater aesthetics aren't amazing either and it's a bit of a rehash of the Powermac G5. There was also that charger they cancelled.

Maybe apple should consider going back to their playful aesthetic? Aluminum and glass is just so... Yawn
Only if he gets 100% of the salary. A 90% worker for 90% of the money sounds perfectly reasonable
> I would not want to be on the receiving end of that!

If things go wrong, you would not want to be on the sending end, either.
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I used to think like you, until one day i read D.L.Parnas' paper "A Rational Design Process: How and Why to Fake it" (http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~perry/education/SE-Intro/fakeit...). I then could understand Dijkstra's pov. He was advocating for rigor in Programming and that the very effort reqd. to hew to his ideal would result in better Software. That is the gist of his argument.

Unfortunately, Humans are heuristic, pattern-matching, infinitely adaptable organisms and hence absolute rigor is very difficult. The fact that programming languages are so evolved that one can easily code-up any incoherent stream of consciousness and still have the system-as-a-whole work in some fashion is what has contributed to both the boom (anybody can contribute) and mess (quality sorely lacking) in the industry.

PS: Never ever dismiss pioneers like Dijkstra, Hoare, Wirth and others offhand. They built up the Fundamental Theory, Science and Tools which directly led to today's Computer Industry and its effect on Society.
1. We used Screen hero for free
2. Slack then integrated it and we had to pay to use the Screen hero feature
3. Now they kill the feature we use everyday to pairprogram. The reason why we even pay for slack.

Could you at least enable Screen hero again?
Insofar as copyright owners are empowered by the system currently in place (e.g. DMCA) a system with less authoritarian power available to lobbyists may have the exact opposite effect. Same caveats as above apply.
Ive is a KBE, which is not an aristocratic title like "lord" or "baron" or "duke". The full title is Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. It makes him a member of the Order of the British Empire, a chivalric order for civilians and military who are rewarded for their contributions to society. It's just a honorific; it doesn't come with land or castles or any governing power.
What's the amazeballs integrated mouse?
Could you DREAM of a world where DaringFireball posted an article disrespecting and demeaning Sir Jony Ive this time last week?

What use is a pundit like this when they are on rails to just spin any and every piece of Apple news to protect the mothership, at this point any words from Gruber have lost all objectivity.
It's ok to not respect cultures. That is your right, and sometimes it's a good thing to shame shitty cultures. That being said, I agree. This felt out of place and unnecessary.
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There's also SSM Session Manager [1]. Not exactly ssh, but you get mostly the same features with ssh access completely disabled and the whole session being logged to S3 bucket or some log aggregation service.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...
About time. This is the other thing that GCP does so well and I was puzzled that AWS still couldnt do - just add more than one keys to a EC2 instance through the API (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-inst...).

There are tons of support questions about "how can I add multiple SSH keys to my EC2 instances".

Now if only AWS brings in "projects". That's the last usability edge that GCP has.
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> The data is collected under a non-reuse agreement

Oh you sweet summer child. Would you by any chance be interested in buying a bridge?

Despite that, even assuming if it's true and we'll have a lovely accurate AI captcha system. The big down-side is that captcha is breaking programmable web. I maintain a lot of small software crawlers from simple notification applets to bigger analytic crawlers and the web in the past few years has been increasingly hostile towards this. API endpoints are disappearing and in general make distributing free apps very difficult. The web-crawlers are super simple to write and even maintain but services like cloudflare, distils, captcha break them and while there's always solutions to these systems they are very hard to distribute to users (you can't really pack in pupeteer, selenium or some other webengine automation stack with your app).

Public data should be public. These sort of idiotic measures are not compatible with web protocol. The web only know one thing - 1 IP address == 1 person and it should be encouraged not dismissed.
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Macros and type safety don't really go hand in hand, hence why ISO C++ is progressively removing any reason to still use them beyond conditional compilation.

Go, just like C, is stuck on a by gone era of programming languages.
I thought it was a nice pun
sexual fluidity

Based on your context, "sexual preference fluidity" would be the appropriate term.
Meanwhile Microsoft is bending over backwards to cater to the command line geeks. Would not have predicted this a few years ago. Apparently they’ve remembered the old ”Developers developers developers” mantra again.
It's not baffling to me. Usb-A isn't appropriate for small form factors. USB-C is. Why can't I plug the same things into my phone that I can plug into my computer? I'm already phasing out USB-A simply because I think a device you can only use on your phone with a single is limited. I used to carry around a laptop to do network diagnostics... I've realised you can literally do the same crap from your phone by using USB-C dongles... and the form factor is actually better.

Mind you Apple seems to be missing one of the main practical advantage of USB-C by slapping a lightning port on their phones thus ensuring donglegeddon. This drives me insane. Apple for all the puffery about giving consumers what they don't know they wanted is instead giving consumers an inferior choice that ensures lock-in and keeps vendors happy.
More anxiety does not mean constantly trembling from fear either.

Difference against violence of past generation is NOT kids rough housing. It was real fights, real hits, real injuries. Real robbery, real violence toward (say) partners, real knife or real gun. Nice manipulative technique you used. But you know what? If there are less kids bullying other kids, that is good thing too. Because while "rough housing" between two consenting kids is fine, one kid bullying the other is often called rough housing by those who want to pretend every thing is fine.

Keeping control over natural impulse to not use condom, to have random sex, to take heroin, to hit other people is a good thing. We have many natural impulses that are better off to be controlled. All of these harm not just the person who is doing it, but others too.
If I were going to steal someone's IP and make unlicensed copies, I'd put a bit more effort in upfront and steal the systemverilog source code. Should be easy enough to do - send someone to work in the IT department responsible for the source code management system - as well as having access to all the code, they'll have knowledge of what protections are in place.
What is your point? That men should start to carry more men purses just to carry their tablet sized phones?
I don't mean browsers doing it, but external password managers, like Keepassxc mentioned in another comment.
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Native population still exists in South America while in USA they were almost exterminated and placed in reservations.

What's your point?
I think mainframes (let's be clear we mean zSeries here) are doing very well given the people are biased by not knowing them and having assumption about inevitability of technological progress.

One of my favorite things about MFs is the auditability. It is actually very transparent system, if you know where to look. There is a lot of information logged by the system (from many different perspectives and on all levels, system/middleware/application, performance/debugging, etc.).

Just one example, since people laugh at security in particular but it is more a cultural thing really. Every data set (file) access and every process execution is logged by default on the mainframe.

Also MF applications seem to be simpler and more performant. I work for a company which does both MF and distributed enterprise software and curiously, mean time to ticket resolution is lower (I think more than 10%) for mainframe. I don't know why, it seems counter-intuitive to me (given that on surface, the development tools for distributed are better), but it is a fact.

In some sense, it's like big airplanes, lot of really good operation procedures are figured out, so most of the things are pretty routine.
Specially since Windows has gone full COM for all new major APIs.
Feel like there is excessive scaremongering about "China" from US based media publications off late, with a "and this is how China ffukkd us" twists.

Perhaps it would be wise for people to keep that filter in mind (as this is how mass manipulation works folks).
Although I'm very interested in your "Chorded Typing" article [0], I too admit to being confused by the article listed here on HN.
Personally, I've roamed the world with a Galaxy Tab 2 7" (3G version) on rooted Android 4.x. I used a mini USB keyboard, and developed quite a bit of software on it (mainly nodejs at the time, but not exclusively). I upgraded the system in 2013 to a MBA (better battery, bigger screen, prettier OS IMHO, but lost mobile data), & didn't continue with it. Fun times.

[0] http://tbf-rnd.life/blog/2019/06/16/0-learning-curve-chorded...
I wasn't really trying to make a qualitative point, but to that notion I have had considerable trouble in some public libraries as well.

The first memory I have of a library was in school where I wanted desperately to find out how one "writes" software. After lots of probably very annoying begging, I was given a book on either COBOL or FORTRAN from the ~60s. It wasn't super helpful.

The last book I borrowed (Alan Cooper's The Inmates are Running the Asylum on UX design, which I found compelling) was lost after I dropped it in the bin. I was fined $104, and upon contacting them was given customer service rivaling comcast's. Until I pay that ridiculous cost I can't borrow from any city library, and can't get a card anywhere else that I'm not a resident. So for me, the tiny libraries are already way over a very low bar.

I've had some generally good experiences, too, but nothing that's convinced me that the current model is either the only way or the best way.
I can imagine that there is actually nobody who wants to be the new CDO. I mean.. you would have to take over the design lead for the world's most valuable company. Also take over what I've created and build up on this. But also be prepared to be talked down by existing folks at Apple to follow their expectations, like "you have no clue what we really need".
Someone with great bravery and mental strength would be needed here.

I am not that into design at all so excuse my question: is there someone who would probably be the perfect fit for this position, at least design-wise?
It's a good time to reflect just how unique/valuable Steve Jobs was to the process. He was one part computer nerd and one part aesthete. He possessed the ego to follow his gut and also the humility to put himself in the end user's POV, allowing that POV to change his mind. All of that while wielding the power and stomach to make uncomfortable, ruthless decisions based on that intuition, that ultimately led to the delight of users, convention be damned. What shoes to fill!
Ive was certainly a spiritual (and decision making?) successor. I agree with Gruber that someone needs to be in that role to be the chef with the final say when necessary, and I hope whoever it is tries to bring the same mix of talents that Steve did.
The email client I use - Nine - is on the list. I can't see how an email client is a problem except they want to push Googles client. Hope Nine gets fixed.
In Fennec that feature is referred to as “Tab Queues.”
In Britain we don't necessarily agree with the titles given out by the queen. However they do serve a purpose. If you have made it in England then you get a knighthood of some sort. Only a small minority of people offered the 'sir' title don't take it.

The purpose is hierarchy. Sir Tim Berners Lee deserves that title. He is afforded recognition. Sir Bob Geldof has got there too. Although not everything to do with Band Aid was awesome, we give Sir Bob the dues. Then there are the rogues such as the arms salesmen. Athletes get the honours too. Get a few gold medals at the Olympics and you are there.

Unfortunately there are inherited titles, but, as mentioned the system is not universally liked and far from perfect. It is a hierarchy with the German lady married to some Greek bloke calling herself Queen at the top.

But what happens in a society where you don't have these things?

You have to have wealth and toys to confer status. You have only made it when you have the McMansion and the European super/hyper car, maybe with the private jet.

The British system is far cheaper. You can be respected with the 'sir' title and live in a Victorian terraced house with Blue Plaque outside. No private jet needed. With 'sir' the reputation goes before the person who has the title, it is what they say that matters, not however much bling stuff they own that matters.

It is understandable that in other parts of the formerly colonised world that this hierarchy is not desired, but there is an advantage to a society where people know their place and are content with their lot. Otherwise it is like America where you have to get rich or die trying with no happy in-between.
I usually wouldn't comment on this, but I can't look past that "un-American". You guys _do_ realize there is, and through the entire history of the USA has been, a fully-fledged industrial aristocracy in place? Just because you don't call them "Sir" but landlord, investor or entrepreneur doesn't change a single thing. Just look at the history of rich ranch owners... Humans are the same, everywhere.
It's a land grab of the general web and browser market, not of the captcha market. They're using the captcha to disincentivize users from using browsers other than Chrome or from not having a Google account. And now with v3, it's supposed to happen on every page of the web? It shouldn't be too hard to see it's a disaster.
There have always been specialized phones for the elderly. Literally no reason why rest of the people should suffer too large devices and I know the struggle. My mother started loosing her eye sight in past 5 years and is not legally blind. At this point even my previous iPhone6+ with max font is of little help only saving feature is speech recognition.
To me it seems like somebody is afraid to make a tough decision. There have been indications that Ive wants to get out for quite a while. So they offered him more and more to make him stay. As the article says, they promoted his C-level job to a A-level one. They gave him ever more freedom, power, and probably money. Now came the point where his willingness to leave became too big. The obvious choice would have been a full divorce. Of course that is hard. But now Apple is basically outsourcing one of its core competences, product design. That is both dangerous and embarrassing for such an iconic company.
Excepting price, Java has similar characteristics, for good or ill.
At least in Chrome if you want to view the passwords; it asks you for Windows account password.