Sunday, April 22, 2012

Apple’s Standards Slipping Since Steve Jobs’ Death,



Micheal Margolis was specifically talking about the new Apple TV UI, he said that new design was actually from 5 years ago and was actually turned down by the fastidious co-founder and Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
Margolis said: “Those new designs were tossed out 5 years ago because SJ didn’t like them,” Margolis announced via his official Twitter feed.


“Given that the iPad is far more successful than the AppleTV, migrating the AppleTV to look more like the iPad was probably a very smart move – even if some of the users of the old UI don’t prefer the new one.”
Margolis provides an insight into the design choices made by Apple for the new update, one that simplifies navigation and draws close comparisons to how apps are displayed on Apple’s smartphones and tablets
Apple is widely expected to release a full Apple HD product in the coming year. Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson that he cracked the code to the TV, but it does not appear that Apple has yet implemented that vision.

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