Future Apple Devices May Have Invisible Buttons and Sliders
15th April 2021
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Apple goes far to make its devices seamless and attractive, but it wants to go further and create controls that are invisible until you need them.
Apple already goes to thoroughly unreasonable, impractical lengths to hide elements of devices that other manufacturers wouldn’t even think of. Just look at the light that tells you a Mac mini is on.
If that device isn’t on, there’s no light. That’s not to say the light is switched off, that it’s blank, but rather that it is vanished.
You can call it over-engineering and you can call it unnecessary, but it’s Apple’s acute attention to detail — and the company wants to do more of it.
I don’t like this trend.