"I'm not being rude, I'm saying this because I've found myself doing this too. I was genuinely excited when Apple unveiled the Touch Bar, the Dynamic Island, and Camera Control. It felt ground-breaking for precisely 4 minutes before I then reminded myself... the Touch Bar was first put on a Lenovo laptop 2 years before apple, the Dynamic Island is still larger than most hole-punch cameras, and the Camera Control, while great, doesn't beat the innovation that Sony's had in their 'camera phone' era."
"I'm not dunking on Apple, but hear me out - it's impressive how Apple managed to fit an entire smartphone into the iPhone Air's camera bump, but Apple's done this before - the Apple Watch is essentially a computer crammed into a wristwatch. Saying the iPhone Air is building up to smart glasses means completely ignoring all of Apple's work in the Watch category."
Two camps of commentators react to the iPhone Air: one sees it as a stepping stone toward foldable phones, while another interprets the camera-bump consolidation as a path to smart glasses. Apple likely develops both foldables and smart glasses, but the Apple Watch has already pioneered many relevant miniaturization and sensor advances. The Watch's heart-rate monitor and other sensor work have driven innovations that migrated into other wearables like AirPods Pro. Enthusiasm for novel product reveals can obscure prior examples of similar engineering achievements within Apple's existing product lines.
Read at Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]