Comments on: The secret behind inspiring designers to make beloved gadgets http://gigaom.com/2013/01/17/the-secret-behind-inspiring-designers-to-make-beloved-gadgets/ Sat, 25 May 2013 04:40:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: casper http://gigaom.com/2013/01/17/the-secret-behind-inspiring-designers-to-make-beloved-gadgets/#comment-1300946 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:00:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=602012#comment-1300946 Good designs can make money. Whether is Apple, Mercedes, BMW or even Ford.
The public may not be able to describe it but they gravitate to good design

]]> By: kibbles http://gigaom.com/2013/01/17/the-secret-behind-inspiring-designers-to-make-beloved-gadgets/#comment-1300810 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:15:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=602012#comment-1300810 actually, your belief is at odds w/ what the management and designers at apple have always stated — they focus solely on building a great product, knowing that the money will follow. every executive and designer has always repeated this mantra; it’s clearly part of their culture. and it explains why they make things w/ much better (and costly) fit & finish…because it’s great. and they know people will spend the extra to make up for those higher manufacturing costs.

so you basically have it completely backwards, son.

]]> By: topor http://gigaom.com/2013/01/17/the-secret-behind-inspiring-designers-to-make-beloved-gadgets/#comment-1300779 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:32:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=602012#comment-1300779 realjjj, many companies are failing trying to compete with Apple precisely because they share your thinking about money first vs product first.

]]> By: Daniel Swanson http://gigaom.com/2013/01/17/the-secret-behind-inspiring-designers-to-make-beloved-gadgets/#comment-1300690 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:17:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=602012#comment-1300690 It’s good to see that Mr. Fadell was able to bring with him an important quality of the Apple culture after leaving it.

After the iPhone debuted, I was fully expecting the competition to have a tough time in even meeting its quality and capabilities. But I didn’t expect to witness the criminal level of lethargy and chicanery in others stealing and illegally copying Apple’s IP.

]]> By: DanielSw http://gigaom.com/2013/01/17/the-secret-behind-inspiring-designers-to-make-beloved-gadgets/#comment-1300677 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:07:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=602012#comment-1300677 What a total skeptical crock. But then it’s a waste of time to even try to explain something when someone like you doesn’t just “get it.”

]]> By: TW http://gigaom.com/2013/01/17/the-secret-behind-inspiring-designers-to-make-beloved-gadgets/#comment-1300527 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 06:29:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=602012#comment-1300527 Do anyone know why Tony Fadell named his company Nest? Anything having to do with the name of Steve Jobs’ company after he left Apple, Next? Perhaps Apple will buy his company one day and we will see the next Apple CEO? After all, Jobs was an entrepreneur and currently no on in Apple management is one.

]]> By: realjjj http://gigaom.com/2013/01/17/the-secret-behind-inspiring-designers-to-make-beloved-gadgets/#comment-1300114 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:03:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=602012#comment-1300114 Amusing to say that others are more profit driven than Apple, when it’s hard to find anyone more profit driven than them.Any decision Apple makes is about money, nothing else.
The major difference here is that Apple makes very few things,and very few new things so the focus is on that 1 new major product that might make it.
Tony Fadell has his own interests to protect so he has to put a positive spin on things.

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