@sahilk 1. The IDE works best to fix padding issues, updating style tokens, and tweaking animations, etc
2. Asking cursor to explain a piece of code to me, I use the Ask mode as a programming tutor.
@2sraval Of course, even if you have a PDF portfolio, a website now is just a prompt away.
Even before AI, there were fewer excuses, but now there are none.
new project: superskilled
AI has 10xed by productivity as a designer. A ton of this productivity came from sharp UX Writing, feedback triaging, and bouncing ideas like I'm talking to a peer.
Superskilled is a opensource set of ready-to-use skills for AI assistants.
new project: superskilled
AI has 10xed by productivity as a designer. A ton of this productivity came from sharp UX Writing, feedback triaging, and bouncing ideas like I'm talking to a peer.
Superskilled is a opensource set of ready-to-use skills for AI assistants.
There is an anecdote in Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs about how the entire phone industry switched to the unibody design.
While traveling in France, Jobs and Ive went into a kitchen supply store. Ive picked up a knife he admired, but then put it down in disappointment. Jobs did the same.
"We both noticed a tiny bit of glue between the handle and the blade," Ive recalled. They talked about how the knife's good design had been ruined by the way it was manufactured. "We don't like to think of our knives as being glued together" Ive said.
The unibody approach evolved through the Mac line before reaching the iPhone. Instead of assembling a laptop from stamped sheet metal parts screwed together, the case was CNC-milled from a single block of aluminum. No joins. No seams. No glue between the handle and the blade, so to speak.
By 2012, the iPhone 5 brought a standard-setting aluminum unibody to the phone itself, along with diamond-cut chamfered edges. The sealed body without removable batteries was a design decision.
When consumers held a unibody iPhone alongside one with a removable battery, they consistently chose the unibody as more premium and refined. Competitors had no choice but to follow or lose sales to Apple.
The ripple effect across the entire industry was enormous. First, Samsung's flagship range lost removable batteries with the Galaxy S5 . Every other manufacturer followed.
So to answer OP's question: Yes, it was capitalism, but only because consumers kept picking the unibody as the more premium, finished product. Everyone else just had to catch up.
Genuine question - why did companies stop making phones with removable batteries? Is there an actual technological reason or is it just another capitalism thing?