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When Did Apple's Obsession with Design Stagnate?
Apple once made us believe computers could be beautiful. Now they ship Notes—functional, forgettable, and philosophically bland.
Compare Notes to the original iPhone's interface—the app that made skeuomorphism feel magical before flat design flattened everything into corporate sterility. Whilst Apple may have abandoned elegant note-taking, the market responded somewhat with Notion; a supposed "Swiss Army" knife of productivity, but one that mistakes complexity for capability. We're left with a false choice: Apple's beautiful-but-basic apps or complex productivity monsters that require engineering degrees to configure.
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