Apple's biggest triumph: manufacturing process.

"phenotyp" (phenotyp) 05/13/2015 at 01:00 • Filed to: industrail design

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Disclaimer: the only Apple products I’ve ever owned are an iphone 4S and ipad3. But, as a designer, I’ve been envious of everything they’ve ever been able to do.

For Sweden > phenotyp 05/13/2015 at 01:17

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Carbon fiber airplanes aren’t very heavy

AM > phenotyp 05/13/2015 at 01:25

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I was hugely impressed with the design of the new Macbook.

To name a few things:

- It doesn’t have a fan

- The battery fills the entire bottom

- The logic board is the smallest I’ve ever seen in a computer.

Looks like this inside:

Clown Shoe Pilot > For Sweden 05/13/2015 at 01:27

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they are once you fill them with fuel

FastIndy > phenotyp 05/13/2015 at 01:31

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They take good photos of their manufacturing process. Lots of products you wouldn’t expect receive this sort of attention to detail in the factory.

phenotyp > FastIndy 05/13/2015 at 01:37

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Yeah, I try to design them. The level that Apple hits is: “holy shit.”

FastIndy > phenotyp 05/13/2015 at 03:01

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What do you do?

Axial > AM 05/13/2015 at 03:26

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They built a tablet with an x86 CPU and relocated the screen to an independent body panel. That is what that is, looking at the layout.

Echo51 > Axial 05/13/2015 at 04:45

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This this this this this. It’s pretty much the microsoft surface, ‘cept you know, with the keyboard dock glued onto it and like 1 port only.

boxrocket > phenotyp 05/13/2015 at 10:11

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Yay. Let's celebrate near-slave labor and abhorrent working and wage conditions for the manufacturing employees (China and Brazil, mostly) for a company that makes 50-95% profit on everything they sell.

I admire apple's ability to make a crap-ton of products that somehow appeal to the masses, but not their execution. I also despise their efforts after the fact to make it seem like they had original ideas about the designs they use, or others using similar designs before, during, and after their own. Their marketing team is amazeballs, and they don't deserve it.

phenotyp > FastIndy 05/13/2015 at 23:33

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Design stuff.