Actually i agree, for the "nervous" part. I will be happy when greed inside decision-making processes crumbles over their heads. Who knows, may be failure is needed indeed to restart Product Thinking that Jobs was famous for.:)
From years i am speculating about this thing: Apple is a service company. Computers/Tablets/Phones everything is just a locked box for profit. I don't mind profit at all. But clearly in my view so much money can be used to deliver something outstanding for a reasonable price. The Apple tax from the past was: More money for highest quality of hardware and software and unrivaled reliability. I loved this and not only used their products, i was evangelist for the brand. The Apple of today is a service company: The Apple tax is abomination and in my view disrespectful toward users. Slowing down hardware update cycles, making obvious bad design decision, locking down Mac Os step by step and blending it with iOS (there is no Mac Os software division). So shareholders are happy, management is happy, users are .... The fact that i can migrate to Ubuntu Mate after years of using Mac OS X speaks enough. I intend to evangelize the Open Source and Linux to the max. Software is the key to the Future of Human Kind and the idea that some monopolistic company wants control is ugly and old-fashioned. So if Apple wants to redeem them selves in the eyes of professionals here are some recommendations: Stop over-hyping every product. Understand that iOS is companion os. Stop 30 percent tax on developers, make reliable hardware again, fix Mac Book Keyboard, again fix it now. Stop overpricing the iPhone. But wait, who cares about this, obviously nobody. So sorry for my rant...
Nice:)) Very Nice. Actually i understand it, so much that i fired a lot of brogrammers, because in the end a lot of the "heavy and impossible work" of programmers is to implement someone else's real hard work and claiming the check. So now we are all suffering together.
Hi there. The reality is this was totally predictable. In the beginning things were simple. UI/UX is focused on creating the prototype and actual implementation was done by front-end programmers. But nobody likes to pay extra, so why not make designers code? Yes, i am one of those designers, old enough to remember frustration with tables and inline css. So if you asking your self why there are no more websites that are beautiful and usable? This is your answer: Is very rare someone with artistic abilities to have "programmers mind". Is enough frustration to deal with browser layout to expect someone to do full stack front-end dev. In the end you have mediocre designers (without basic understanding of color theory or typography) that are mediocre programmers (using all the cool JS tech, without CS basic understanding), so websites have interactive technology with design interaction from 2005:)
Not to brag about it, but those things get me a little annoyed. Not a single word that this is found near Bulgaria territory, if i am not mistaken. If something is found near Murica or Greatest Britain of all, we will be reading a different titles.:)
This is cool for animation demo. From UX stand point is almost a joke. Apple intentionally is using animations only when user attention is low. My problem with window managers are not animations. My problem is that this is old paradigm and desktop needs to be reinvented by extending and changing user experience. 3d interaction with information objects in virtual space is future. But the big companies don't care anymore. They are focused in cashing the cow and capitalizing on old ideas of Apple and S.Jobs. There is a big room for innovation but centralized investment in R&D and testing are needed. I have tinkered with this and generated some ideas, but after estimation the result is that this is too big for small dev teams. So we will wait GUI to become cool again and wait for someone with imagination and skill to penetrate the walls of reason and get the blessing from excel gods.:)
I like the design. Its cool. But i cannot see the price to be reasonable. Personally if someone wants local server - mail with be not enough of a selling point for 499usd. So why not buy ds218+ (300usd) from synology and two 4tb NAS hard disks (200usd)- 500 usd? The setup is dead simple. It has mail server backup and media software.