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<\/p>\nDespite Apple\u2019s recent Bendgate scandal, the brand isn\u2019t being impeached anytime soon. They\u2019ll lose a few votes for the moment, but in the end they\u2019ll maintain the same monarchical dominance they\u2019ve enjoyed for the past two decades.<\/p>\n
Whether you\u2019re an Apple fan or not, they\u2019ve earned this brand loyalty through consistent innovation, establishing themselves as the standard against which all laptops and smart phones and tablets are judged. This is only a blip on the Apple radar, the frequency of which will continue to broadcast Walt Whitman messages of San Francisco\u2019s Different Thinking around the world. How do we know? Because Bendgate isn\u2019t their first product design scandal.<\/p>\n
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In his brief time as Apple\u2019s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Phil Schiller stated in an interview that Apple doesn\u2019t rely on conventional market research to create its products. This unfettered process of geeky ingenuity, which isn\u2019t compromised by the pedestrian reactions of consumers who are too behind the curve to realize what they even want, has clearly paid off, however it has also led to a few seemingly obvious mistakes in product development along the way.<\/p>\n
Exhibit A: The Samurai Laptop<\/p>\n
If you don\u2019t have a sharp knife in the house, but you have a 2013 Macbook Pro, simply open the laptop and slice your tomato or carve your turkey, with one of the edges of the base of your $2,000 machine. It\u2019s sharp, really sharp. I know because I have one, the edge of which was so uncomfortable when my wrists leaned against it that I filed it down, just like this guy:<\/p>\n