But is it too big? Are they going to have to make the box bigger? What happened to slimming everything down? I'm confused
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But is it too big? Are they going to have to make the box bigger? What happened to slimming everything down? I'm confused
Because it was so hard to unplug before and hurt everyone.
I provided feedback to Apple for years that the current design was too bloody slippery, with the glossy plastic providing little grip. It's only taken them the better part of a decade to wake up and realize the obvious. Honestly, it's often frustrating to be an Apple fan (and shareholder) when they solve obvious problems with simple fixes at a glacial pace. Hockey Puck Mouse anyone? Tragic Mouse? Fraying Apple cables due to weak design? Terrible FW800 connector stability? Sharp edges and points on unibody laptops?
samsung has and always will have sloppy seconds when it comes to design ideas. samsung's lack of design is representative of the overall lack of design over in asia mainly involving koreans and the chinese. hyundai/kia for the longest of time copied design characteristics of honda and toyota, and now they are blatantly copying mazda. the chinese are known to, well...copy everything. the consumer products company i worked for had a sub-division in china that handled our manufacturing. one day we randomly received a FedEx box with a "new product design" from the chinese company. we put it on our testing sled and performed the test and the product broke apart into a dozen pieces. it wasn't even a project worth saving because the design they created wasn't even possible to be made into an adequate product for a consumer. basically it would look great as a prototype on a shelf somewhere, and that's it
the chinese and koreans are still a long long ways away from being able to design anything that is world class or that sets a design trend. they are simply followers of everyone else
^ Don't hope too hard for up-votes on that - wasn't at all funny, too obvious.
What would become of the world if we didn't know about this before it happened.
Complete and utter anarchy would ensue. Life as we know would cease to exist!
This new design makes it easy to unplug, as it now has an improved grip area.
Whoever designed the previous adapter didn't need to plug and unplug it several times. He probably had one adapter available at every outlet.
Whoever designed the previous adapter didn't need to plug and unplug it several times. He probably had one adapter available at every outlet.
Next: Someone will "leak" a photo of the included Apple stickers, complete with notation that "the sticker diameter seems to have shrunk by x millimetres". Shortly after, someone will observe the differences of process used for the screen printing of the box, and finally we'll find someone with captures from a microscope, observing how the tackiness of the glue on the box seal has somewhat changed, then going into molecular level resolution to explain the changes in the used adhesive...
[WAIT]
We're not done yet - someone else will count the pages of a "leaked" manual draft copy, and note the dimensions of the standard typeface have changed. Then, you'll see a comparison of the word count in the new manual vs previous manuals... then, we'll see people using a stopwatch to time how long a "leaked" box takes for the bottom half to telescopically slide open, downward, away from the top, and compile it into a data sheet.
[WAIT]
We're not done yet - someone else will count the pages of a "leaked" manual draft copy, and note the dimensions of the standard typeface have changed. Then, you'll see a comparison of the word count in the new manual vs previous manuals... then, we'll see people using a stopwatch to time how long a "leaked" box takes for the bottom half to telescopically slide open, downward, away from the top, and compile it into a data sheet.
Yeah I thought the same and was wondering about the picture, glad you commented (and MacRumors updated the article).
Worth noting that New Zealand and China use the same plugs as us. Could have been a cheaper design for release throughout China?
Damn, I really thought my tech-centric, dad-joke standup career was going to take off this time around.