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I have a brand new 15″ MacBook Pro from 2027. It is the one with the TouchBar, the thin one and the one with the butterfly keyboard, but also one of the best examples of an Apple that has remained in the past: the Apple that prioritized design over functionality. Because my MacBook Pro gets incredibly hot, its butterfly keyboard has left it useless, and the fact that it came with just four USB-C ports in 2017 didn’t make any sense. The radical change of latest MacBook Pro shows that Apple realized that a professional laptop needs to have ports and it does not need to be thin than a Macbook Air. However, the arrival of John Ternus at the head of Apple announces winds of change, a change that will return design to where it should be in decision-making within the company and that responds to a single idea. Get Apple’s design team out of the basement. More or less The return to the Apple of design This year, Apple’s back to school will have an important change. Ternus will begin his “mandate” on September 1. Ternus comes from cacharreoof hardware, and will replace a businessman as a Tim Cook that has transformed the entire operations of the Californian company. Something logical that we can think is that, in a company as large as Apple, the CEO is not so important because decisions are made together and, although it is true that there are strategies with which it is difficult to turn a corner, the vision of the company is that of long mandates in which being able to maintain what worked from the pastbut seeing where they can develop new ideas and lines of business. In this sense, and as point Mark Gurman’s Bloomberg newsletter, Ternus has been closely supervising Apple’s hardware and software design team for a few months now. According to Gurman himself, he has been investing a considerable amount of time with the industrial design team, one that, in recent years, would not have seen its best period. Apple devices continue to give great importance to design, but after questionable decisions, that team took a backseat within the company. Yes with Jony Ive They came to dominate the conversation, weighing heavily on the appearance and functionality of the devices (that famous ‘form over function’ or “design over functionality”), the last decade they sank within the company’s balance. Jeff Williams, COO, took over after Ive’s departure in 2019but when Williams left at the end of last year, the team had even lost more relevance within the company. As an example, there was no senior design position within Cook’s leadership team. Now, according to Bloomberg, Ternus intends to revitalize the department and, in an internal meeting, told them that Apple will continue to focus “in design, since design is fundamental to what we do at Apple”. In fact, the company’s new boss went further, noting that “the most beautifully designed thing most customers own is an Apple product. We need to make sure that remains the case.” I started by talking about my MacBook because it is one of the most representative cases of those devices of design over functionality, but not the only one in Apple’s history. Famous are other devices like that iPod Shuffle to which you had to send messages by morse code with the cable controls because it didn’t have buttons or the Magic Mousewhich remains, to this day, the official mouse sold by the company. But that Ternus wants to return to that idea that design is vital for the company It does not necessarily imply returning to those devices. The current MacBook Pro or the mac studio and mac mini Full of ports are examples of beautiful, but functional devices. own MacBook Neo It was born under the direct supervision of Ternus and has only two USC-C (and one very slow), but this is due to a limitation due to the processor used. Simply put, I understand that Ternus wants to once again have people from the design department having a say in the new Apple, one that will face the launch of the new products in the short term. iPhone 18 Prothe iPhone 18 that it seems that they will go to 2027, the new Siria long-awaited renewal of the AirPodsthe rumored foldable iPhone or some glasses. In Xataka |