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wdewind
·6년 전·discuss
I don't think it's subconscious. It shows up obviously in bezel thickness and radius of corners. When they release a new product the bezel is thick and the corners are very round. As they are able to reduce the bezel size, they also reduce the rounding of the corners. This has the effect of making the last generation look toy-like and the new generation look more serious. They have used this pattern for like 20 years across many product lines.
wdewind
·12년 전·discuss
> Were our ancestors' lives miserable because they didn't have Snapchat and gadgets?

Yes they were (as well as for many other reasons).

Imagine a cancer patient hooked up to all the crucial life saving equipment that the engineers who did not choose "frivolity" in their careers built. What is that patient doing? They are on their iPhones, on twitter, on Snapchat etc. And these products are really really making a difference in their lives. In being able to not feel so isolated. Until you've seen something like this happen, it's very easy to dismiss these products as stupid cat picture networks. But sometimes cat picture networks really make people feel better, and that's kind of what it's all about.

I just think people frequently criticize others' non-infrastructure work as "frivolous," forgetting that the point of infrastructure is to support a life that is fun and feels good.
wdewind
·12년 전·discuss
> Of course this is not strictly a property of services. Today we also produce lots of gadgets and widgets and nonsense that aren't in any way relevant to our needs.

This is like the article that bitches about engineers making Snapchat instead of working on Healthcare.gov

There is a massive implication in what you are saying and in that article that stuff like Snapchat is trivial and useless. People forget that being a human being is an emotional experience, and that while we require food, shelter etc., to live, in order to truly live we require much more. Snapchat, gadgets and widgets and nonsense? These are all crucial parts of human emotional existence.