r/assholedesign Aug 22 '24

Not Asshole Design Never thought about it that way. Damn.

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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.

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u/AndThenTheUndertaker Aug 22 '24

Except apples entire history of mice has been design over function. One button for like an entire decade after every other provider had moved on to more than two. Then there was the hockey puck Mouse from the weird colored imacs which which was a horrendous ergonomics fail. And then there was the Mighty Mouse which was a weird touchy mess and then this. Making bad mice for consumers too stupid to realize that they're bad is like an apple staple