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The Apple iPhone
KharBevNor:
It always intrigues me how people harp on about how amazing Apples interface design is, because I've never used an apple product I found easy to use. In fact, I've generally found them to be full of style-over-substance touches that make them annoying to use. The desktops with the stupid, unergonomic one button mouse and that fucking mac button that makes keyboard shortcuts more of an annoyance than a convenience are the worst culprit. I hate those fucking things so much. But anyway, as pointed out here earlier, it's very nice, but it isn't going to be a decent mp3 player, and it's functionality is already available in tons of other phones or pdas. As for the multi-touch screen, yes, very nice, but why do you need it on a fucking phone? Style over substance.
Johnny C:
As a user of both Windows desktop PCs and an Apple laptop I can assure you that both platforms have substance and that I prefer neither. I can also inform you that you are mistaken in assuming that because something has style means that its substance is therefore lacking. Apple's entire business model is about taking intimidating things such as computers, MP3 players and smartphones and making them incredibly user-friendly. Assuming that because some effort went into the presentation the product itself is somehow lacking is a fallacy.
Catfish_Man:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 15 Jan 2007, 06:20 ---fucking mac button that makes keyboard shortcuts more of an annoyance than a convenience are the worst culprit.
--- End quote ---
guh?
How is it even different from using ctrl, aside from being two keys over? Also, are you aware of things like every text field having emacs keybindings? or the heirarchical task switcher? (cmd-tab to switch apps, cmd-~ to switch windows within an app. Major improvement over just cycling through windows)
Sythe:
Hey Applers! Right click!
Catfish_Man:
*does so*
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