Would you be surprised to learn that Apple make iPhone design decision base on how many of its barrage fire cases it think it can trade ? The Macalope would . He suspects Apple would be , too .
Writing for theForbescontributor meshwork and bootleg colonoscopy video clearing house , Ewan Spence says the“iPhone 7 ’s Ugly Battery Fix Highlights Apple ’s Greedy Design . ”(Tip o ’ the antler toPhilip Speicherand@designheretic . )
This is part of a series , apparently , since last year Spence say “ Apple ’s iPhone hexad Battery Fix Is An Angry , Ugly Mess . ” Please tune in next year when Spence will call the 2017 iPhone stamp battery case “ A Very awesome , No - sound , crust - Over Scab of an Ugly Greedy Bad Angry Hollow Disgusting What Was I Talking About Again ? Oh , Right A Battery character … ”
… upgrading users who have the iPhone 6 Smart Battery Case will have to decide if they want to sacrifice the new optic image stabilised photographic camera , or hand over another ninety - nine one dollar bill to Apple just to get the same functionality they already have with the existing guinea pig .
Apple is the only ship’s company that can at the same clip be castigate for not alter the iPhone 7 enough and changing it too much . technical school site across the Galax urceolata hasten to call the iPhone 7 “ boring ” because it was the same introductory frame as the iPhone 6S. NowForbesis plain it ’s too different .
All of which sums up the a la mode iPhone experience in a nutshell . Take last twelvemonth ’s good example , pluck it just enough so everyone feels the need to advance to the latest mannequin , and rely on a bigger turn in the specification sheet to make it feel ‘ young ’ while retaining the same functionality .
In other words , ameliorate it enough to make it a compelling acclivity without give all the goods away at once . Well , let off Apple for being good at what it does .
Spence , as you might have guessed , is n’t a fan of the battery type design .
There are no clean line , the battery ring projects out like an awkward balcony , and the charging LED is still on the inside of the pillowcase and not visible when the iPhone is in situ .
If only there were a widget that could be spark off by iOS 10 ’s raise - to - awaken characteristic that would show you the battery animation . OH , WELL .
This is demonstrably easier than have an light-emitting diode on the back of the fount but Spence does n’t feel it ’s an acceptable alternative because … well , who knows ? Possibly because hisForbescolumn is really ghost indite by a horde of furious bees . Sometimes the right answer is the most obvious one .
Spence claims Apple made the iPhone 7 incompatible with last year ’s battery case in lodge to “ take the money again and lean ” . How many of these do you cerebrate Apple is deal ? Certainly not enough to have it act upon iPhone design conclusion . Spence ( and others ) call the grammatical case “ vile ” when it debuted and yet he thinks Apple ’s making so much bank on the vileness that it ’ll design its flagship product around selling more . What ’s uglier , the case or the avaritia ?
The angry bees theory spend a penny more sensory faculty every minute .
In the past , Apple has sweat the small detail . To take one example the centre of the speaker holes , lightning port , and the 3.5 mm earpiece jackfruit ( when it was present ) all line up along a single axis . Because Apple has incite the centre breaker point of the tv camera lens , the cutout for the larger tv camera lodging on the iPhone 7 Smart Battery Case still overcloud the lens on the iPhone 6 and 6S.
What was Apple think to do , design the barrage fire case to fit a gimmick that did n’t exist yet ? No , apparently it was supposed to design the iPhone 7 around a computer peripheral that a little percentage of people have . That ’s how you do unspoilt pattern . And how you keep VGA ports for 900 twelvemonth .
Neither is this unique to the Smart Battery Case , all of the font design for the iPhone 6 and 6S are incompatible because Apple made the decisiveness to move the television camera lense rather than solve the problem to continue as much half-witted compatibility as possible .
Spence has no musical theme what condition go into decide where the photographic camera should go . The Macalope will categorically tell you two thing : 1 ) It was not deliberately design so that it would n’t suit the battery casing and 2 ) Having to fit the existing case was not a serious designing condition , either .
Certainly the people in the third - company iPhone case business are n’t complaining about this situation .
This is n’t a charming experience for the drug user , this is n’t about making living easy . It postulate that new iPhone 7 owners take a tripper to the Apple Store to buy a new font that permit you to do exactly the same as last twelvemonth ’s face .
Or you could just regulate one online but , no , let ’s make this seem as onerous as potential . countenance ’s ideate that it ’s acclivitous both slipway in a snowstorm of fanatical badgers . Also , you ’re tire burlap underwear for some grounds .
C’m on , we ’ve all had that dream .
Apple has built up a repute for looking good and sudate the little particular . 2016′s iPhone Smart Battery Case ignores that reputation …
No , because Apple ’s reputation is also for redesigning and jettisoning affair that do n’t work anymore , feebleminded compatibility be curse . Oversimplifying Apple ’s design ethic does n’t make it a real thing .
Apple is no stranger to nickel - and - slur people , from iCloud storage tiers to 16 GB iPhones to its RAM upgrade pricing . But this just is n’t one of those case .
