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'Form over function' is always treated in the forums like it's a one OR the other thing. So yeah, just because some of Apple’s products have gotten more squared off over the past two years doesn’t mean that needs to happen with all of them.

Apple product design improved since jony pro#

The MacBook Pro and iMac had a unibody design, but the white plastic MacBook and the Mac mini did not. The iPhones had black or white glossy back casings, whereas the iPods had colored stainless steel ones. Just pick a random year, let’s say… 2009.

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The AirPods case isn’t squared off, the HomePod isn’t squared off, the Apple TV remote has flat sides but has a rounded back.Īpple has never, ever had a fully uniform design, even during the Steve Jobs era. Same with several of their other products. And that’s why they decided to stick with the rounded off design. If I had to guess, what we’re seeing is that there isn’t a single current voice at Apple dictating design at 30,000 feet and instead they’re making products as they come up for re-design how ever they see fit, regardless of whether they have any similarity to their other products.Ĭlick to expand.Or maybe not every product that Apple makes needs to look identical?Ī blocky Apple Watch might look cool and match with their iPhones, but in real life, it would get caught on sleeves and would be an absolute pain while working out, and they probably realized this. It’s certainly possible that having a number of different design languages was part of their plan, regardless of whether Jony Ive was there or not, but I doubt that is the case.

It would make more sense if they updated the MBA to have a more rounded design that follows the form of the the new MBP’s.

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It wouldn’t make sense for them to have these separate design languages going, with what I consider a more modern, hard-edged, design getting used for a consumer focused product and the new rounded case design being used for high-end professional use. I look at the renders of what the potential new MacBook Air might look like, with it’s thinner profile and square edge design and think that is exactly what I would want to see in a modern, updated, MacBook Air…except I’m doubtful that they’d go this direction, especially now that the high end workhorse MBP’s have taken on a decidedly retro look. Looking at my 2013 rMBP 15”, it has the same hard edged, flat sides look as my M1 iPad Pro, and in fact they’re almost the exact same thickness (bottom case edge compared to the edge of the iPad Pro), so I suppose you could argue that the current iPad Pro / Air / Mini form factor is an evolution of the design language from the 2010’s. The new MacBook Pro designs clearly aren’t an evolution from the previous form factor, and instead look more like something from the 2000’s, so they have almost no familial similarities to any other current Apple product, which seems really strange to me. The Watch is clearly a remnant of the past rounded edge design (which was born out of the rounded edge iPhones of the day), which I can’t imagine will last much longer and should have been updated this year, imho. The M1 iMac has a similar form factor (hard edged modern look), but then uses questionable color choices, especially the white bezel. The iPad Pro‘s, Airs and now Mini, and iPhones 12 and 13 are home runs as far as I’m concerned design-wise.

I have to wonder who at Apple is doing the sign-off on the overall design language now, as it seems like a mess when viewed as a whole?