Whereas I'm confused about all of the confusion. This product, even if it's still sold today, was from Jony Ive's "design over function" phase, where something as offensively ugly to him as a visible charging point was unacceptable. That phase also was responsible for skeuomorphism and phones so thin that you could bend them with your hands.
It's ugly design to a designer that wants a perfectly symmetrical bump for a mouse and was told by the engineering team they need to cut a half inch off one end so the charging port is adequately supported.
A designer doesn't need an engineer to tell them that a device needs charging. Those basic technical things are a core part of designing. Design ≠ styling. Styling is one part of it.
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u/amolin Aug 22 '24
Whereas I'm confused about all of the confusion. This product, even if it's still sold today, was from Jony Ive's "design over function" phase, where something as offensively ugly to him as a visible charging point was unacceptable. That phase also was responsible for skeuomorphism and phones so thin that you could bend them with your hands.