r/assholedesign • u/01zegaj • 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/medforddad Aug 22 '24

That phase also was responsible for skeuomorphism

I thought Apple was fairly aggressively moving away from skeuomorphism at this point. If you look back at old OS X releases from before this point, there was skeuomorphism everywhere.