John Siracusa

It's interesting and it's fun.

Casey, you talked about the iPad in the middle.

And I'm with you that I think this shows a...

decided lack of imagination like oh yeah everything because johnny i was just so obsessed with freaking rounded rectangles and simplicity but like slapping an ipad on the dashboard is surrendering it's like no i'm not surrendering look at all the physical controls look at the handle look at the wrist rest it's like okay but you put an ipad on the dashboard and you now you like it's not like he's not the first person to put physical controls on the bottom of an ipad like ford has done it for crying out loud like lots of manufacturers said oh it's an ipad but there's a physical dial on it it's an ipad but there's physical buttons along the bottom

Is that the peak?

Is that, you know, that's the best idea we have come up with?

I know it's a difficult problem, but, like, you know, the ergonomics of a cockpit, I refuse to believe that an iPad with some physical buttons on it that you can tilt is the correct solution to that problem.

Like, I do feel like the cockpit, like, look, you're stationary.

You're in a seat.

You're not going anywhere.

it should be possible to make a layout of controls that accommodates a lot of people that you can get at too easily that is not as weird as this.

And the tilting thing that you mentioned, Casey, one of the problems with tilting is now it becomes, unless you never move it, unless it never moves on its own, which I would wonder about, now you have a slightly more difficult time no-look reaching for the fan-up speed or whatever because you have to know which position you last tilted the thing in.

Yeah, and those tilt things, if the Johnny Ive iMac monitor arm thing is any indication, they might get loose over time.

So it's very difficult to pull that off.

And then go down to the center console.

Their idea for the center console, you'll never guess.

Let's make it out of a bunch of rounded rectangles.

Oh, my God.

It's rounded, like the binnacle, that being a rounded rectangle is probably the biggest sin because it's like, for crying out loud, like a Ferrari would never have a rectilinear rounded rectangle poking up.

Like it does not look sleek or cool or aggressive in any way.