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Bad Dye Job

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251 points mpweiher | 2 comments | 08 Dec 25 11:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.513s | source
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joshstrange ◴[08 Dec 25 12:57 UTC] No.46191687[source]▶
> Putting Alan Dye in charge of user interface design was the one big mistake Jony Ive made as Apple’s Chief Design Officer.

_One_??? Talk about rose tinted liquid glass(es).

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1. forgetfulness ◴[08 Dec 25 13:43 UTC] No.46192129[source]▶
The man left prior to Apple facing, and losing, a class action lawsuit over his favored keyboard design. Screens also died left and right in designs approved by him, and his next great innovation would be the Touch Bar.

It was a precipitous fall from grace

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2. p_l ◴[08 Dec 25 21:48 UTC] No.46198104[source]▶
Everyone focuses on M1 as supposedly super chip that fixed all the "intel problems" of Macbooks, but similarly large difference was how first M1 series reversed a bunch of Johnny Ive era designs including how forcibly thin it was.