A former Apple employee has taken to twitter to criticised Apple for letting standards slip and reckons since Steve Jobs passed away there’s no-one to “say ‘no’ to bad design ideas.”
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.
He added: “Now there is nobody to say “no” to bad design.”
Explaining his comments to The Next Web, former Apple employee Margolis said: “The new UI shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone.
“There is a clear effort at Apple to make everything match the look and feel of their popular iOS products – starting with Lion and increasing momentum with Mountain Lion.
“To be clear – he didn’t like the original grid. This was before the iPhone was popular and before the iPad even existed.
“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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