If Scott was responsible for the music app in iOS 6 and the podcast app, then I approve this decision.
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Scott Forstall Reportedly Forced Out of Apple
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Having had about 12 hours to think about this news, I have to say that I hope Sir Ive lives up to the expectations many seem to have of him. I hope that Ive's obvious genius with respect to the fit and finish with hardware and packaging can translate to software.
I have to wonder if Ive feels like he's kind of on an island at Apple these days. I mean, there's no shortage of stories about how Steve and Jony used to spend many hours bouncing ideas off each other. They were, no doubt, two geniuses at work. I just can't picture Tim Cook going into Jony's design "cave" and getting all excited about what he was working on like it sounds like Steve often did. I know Jony has a design team, but I have to wonder if it's lonely at the top for him these days.
It seems like Apple is betting a good chunk of the company on Jony. I hope he doesn't crack under the pressure. Steve obviously fed off of and loved having that amount of involvement. While Steve and Jony thought along the same lines much of the time, I'm not sure they shared the same passion for wearing so many hats. Time will tell.
I have to wonder if Ive feels like he's kind of on an island at Apple these days. I mean, there's no shortage of stories about how Steve and Jony used to spend many hours bouncing ideas off each other. They were, no doubt, two geniuses at work. I just can't picture Tim Cook going into Jony's design "cave" and getting all excited about what he was working on like it sounds like Steve often did. I know Jony has a design team, but I have to wonder if it's lonely at the top for him these days.
It seems like Apple is betting a good chunk of the company on Jony. I hope he doesn't crack under the pressure. Steve obviously fed off of and loved having that amount of involvement. While Steve and Jony thought along the same lines much of the time, I'm not sure they shared the same passion for wearing so many hats. Time will tell.
Even though Skeuomorphism doesn't enrage me the way it does some people, it is:
a. Inconsistent with the minimal design of the hardware.
b. Looking disticntly 1990s at a time when both Android and Windows Mobile 8 are going for for a more minimalist look.
However, I do like the idea of some colour or texture 'cues' to distinguish different application windows, as long as the controls are consistent. It would be nice to tell at a glance whether a window was Safari, Finder, Mail...
I think we cannot simplify this by using the word "value", you are talking about multiple things like emotional attachement, fandom and marketing influence. Value is something more tangible.
However that is my personal opinion.
The thing about the skeuomorphic designs is that they looked pretty crap on standard DPI displays. On the retina displays they look quite nice. I'm more at ease with skeuomorphic designs on iOS than OSX though. It seems to work better when you can "touch" the UI.
You cant be serious. The original UI:
Present UI:
Not much of a difference Ace....
Wouldn't it being Ive's lobby for firing other strong names capable of replacing Cook's role someday?
Is sir Ive the new Jobs?
Is sir Ive the new Jobs?
It doesn't enrage me, but it has been taken to a level where it looks silly in some cases, and was hindering usability. And as you say, it's inconsistent with the hardware.
I'm cautiously optimistic about Ive taking over the UI design. His philosophy is to get the unnecessary out of the way to allow the focus on usability, which is really what anyone wants out of their computing experience.
There's a big difference between visual cues (like the 'genie' effect) which are cute, but more importantly useful for conveying information, and an address book that's less useful than it was before just so it can look like a real one. Apple's biggest wins are when they manage to do both at once. Look great and be useful.
If value is something more tangible, what is it? If value must be "tangible" how do you explain people paying for flowers that will die within a few days or paying to go see a movie? What "tangible" value is there in seeing Skyfall? The value of entertainment is entirely intangible. As is the value of all art, of fine food and wine, even of the vast majority of telephone conversations which aren't about exchanging data but rather are about bonding.
The fact is that value is many things. Yes, including emotional attachment, brand, badge value and everything else. They are all types of value and they all contribute to what someone is willing to pay in cash to own a product or use a service.
And if anyone complains that 59 plus 47 is more than hundred - it means that the other companies combined must add up to a loss of 6%!
You obviously don't own a company.
When a business is sold, the buyer generally requires a non-compete agreement. This prevents the seller from taking the clientele he just sold and opening up shop under a different name.
Non-compete agreements in terms of employees is a little more complex but provides essentially the same protection. I am the owner of a small business and I'll be *dammed* if I'm gonna allow a guy that has worked for me to bring the customers I've spent 25 years cultivating and nurturing with him should we part ways.
Currency (trade) is an expression of value, which in itself is always perceived. It has no material existence. My reading of Zunjine's (extremely well-argued) posts are that Apple have stimulated an impression of value in their products, through some complex union of design, marketing, customer service, etc., that is commensurate with the price they charge for them.
In my view, value is a composite of all of the things you mention ('emotional attachment, fandom and marketing influence') and more, and thus is precisely the word we should be using in this (rather tangential) discussion. Yet I would argue that value, in and of itself, is completely intangible; it is only the responses to value (i.e. exchanging several days of physical and mental labour for an iPhone) that are tangible.
This is of course, however, also my personal opinion
Hey, isn't it free competition?
Sometimes I don't understand the american liberalism. Sometimes liberal, sometimes protectionist.
Wait a second... Where I work I am under an NDA (part of the employment contract), and I cannot give any knowledge specific to my company to any competitor. Either while I'm employed or after I am employed. That doesn't mean I can't work for a competitor. What you are saying is that once I got any training at a company, they've got me by the balls and I can't go anywhere else without their permission. Next thing you tell me that nobody who ever worked at McDonald's can ever start a job at Burger King.
But the company also benefitted from the knowledge I had when I joined. Knowledge gained through study, in my spare time. Look, I have to protect my IP. So I demand that when I leave, they remove everything that benefitted from my knowledge. Does that make sense to you?
You are confusing things here. Customer information falls under "trade secrets", and someone leaving your company has no right whatsoever to use any of your trade secrets (as long as that was part of the employment contract; if you are stupid and this is not part of the employment contract then you are in trouble). That doesn't mean that person can't drum up new business from scratch. Including business from people who used to be your customers. What he can't do is for example using knowledge of strength and weaknesses of your product, or pricing strategies, that would only be known to your employees, to improve his new business.
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The best parts of Apple usually look bad at first, are dropped, and asked to come back later. Right?
That's nice, but non-compete clauses are illegal in California (where Apple is HQed). That guy you spent 25 years cultivating can do anything he wants, after walking out of your door.
Based on the tenor of the comments, plenty of people are outright anxious to see the door hit him on the butt on the way out the door. Hard.
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The California Supreme Court ruled noncompete clauses are against state law and therefore not enforceable and automatically void. Since they are in CA any such clause would be useless.
Edwards v. Arthur Andersen LLC 2008 DJDAR 12286
If you're the one who cultivated and nurtured the relationship with those customers, why would they ever jump and go with your ex-employee? Either he or she is the one who actually created value or you wasted your time pursuing non-existent loyalty with those customers.
Sounds to me like you just want to keep the value your employee created without keeping the employee, or compensating them for their marginal value, which is really how business owners 'create' value (it's through ownership of the labour of employees, while compensating them at a level below the marginal value of said employee's production).
Currency (trade) is an expression of value, which in itself is always perceived. It has no material existence. My reading of Zunjine's (extremely well-argued) posts are that Apple have stimulated an impression of value in their products, through some complex union of design, marketing, customer service, etc., that is commensurate with the price they charge for them.
In my view, value is a composite of all of the things you mention ('emotional attachment, fandom and marketing influence') and more, and thus is precisely the word we should be using in this (rather tangential) discussion. Yet I would argue that value, in and of itself, is completely intangible; it is only the responses to value (i.e. exchanging several days of physical and mental labour for an iPhone) that are tangible.
This is of course, however, also my personal opinion
That's actually a key point that I failed to make. Cash, in and of itself has no value. It's a symbol which holds value only so long as we believe it holds value. In many ways, hard cash is the most intangible value of all.